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Skateman #1

January 15, 2018 2 Comments

A man fights crime with roller skates; considered one of the worst comics of all time.

Billy and his friend Jack

Meet Billy Moon

Issue #1

After returning home from Vietnam, veteran and martial artist Billy Moon joins a roller derby at the insistence of an old friend.

playing roller derby

This isn’t some game, this is roller derby!

Life was good for Billy. He had a gorgeous girlfriend named Angel and got to hang out with his best friend Jack every day. All is torn asunder when Billy accidentally kills Jack in a derby accident. My God…

Jack dies

Oh snap! (literally)

Billy and Angel hitchhike to California for a new start and they befriend a neighborhood kid named Paco. But – oh no – Billy’s life takes another hit when Angel is murdered by a biker wearing a skull jacket!

Billy holding dead Angel

It’s just one thing after another

Enter Skateman

Inspired by Paco’s comic book collection, Billy becomes Skateman: a superhero that wears roller skates, and…uh, that’s it. He beats the crap out of biker gangs, but more often than not, they beat the crap out of him.

Skateman crashes through window

Skateman knows how to make an entrance

While hanging out at the club looking for info on Angel’s killer, Billy’s friend (and new love interest) Jill is kidnapped by a gang.

Skateman behind kidnappers' car

Skateman puts a tracker on Jill’s kidnappers

Skateman follows the gang to their hideout and attacks it with Paco and 30 of his friends on skateboards. Jill is rescued and Paco throws a grenade (where did he get that?!) at the hideout, destroying it.

Futureworld

Man running with case

I have no idea what’s going on

A backup story set up in a post-apocalyptic future. A group of people are stuck on some cliffs with a bunch of giant lizard things directly below them. One dude volunteers to take an airship and fly into an old facility to get a thing and do a thing. He is successful.

Rock Warrior

Rock Warrior stuff

I have no idea what’s going on here, either

A whimsically-drawn second backup story about an Australian heavyweight champion who somehow teleports to another planet (Neo Zealondono) and has an interstellar adventure, then returns home in the end somehow.

"Hands off, jerk hole! The party's over! We're forming a union! My foot and your face!"

Can you blame me for thinking it’s a comedy?

Thoughts

At first I thought this comic was a joke, and a pretty funny one at that. But the more I read, the more I realized it was genuine. Skateman is an amalgamation of the Punisher and Iron Fist, but at the end of the day, he’s a guy on skates who fights crime and takes himself very, very seriously. The comic’s easy to follow, but it’s not very original, with weak (even offensive) characters. And the backup stories? They exist. That’s all I can say about them.

Billy in bed wearing bandages with Jill

“Skaterade”

Skateman lasted only one issue. I’m okay with this.

Rating

2 out of 5 eggs rating

Pretend it’s a comedy and you may enjoy it on some level.

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Decade: 1980s Filed Under: Comic Reviews Tagged: action, superheroes

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Comments

  1. Hexum Black says

    January 16, 2018 at 7:59 am

    What sorcery is this! Skateman and no skateboards?! He’s on roller skates man!! My mind is snapped like Jack’s neck!

    Reply
    • Michael says

      January 16, 2018 at 10:04 am

      By Crom! That’s what I get for writing so late and becoming fixated on Paco’s bright red skateboard – fix’d.

      Reply

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