Boneyard
by Richard Moore (NBM Publishing)
By Jamie Kiffel
Add a few hot hints at sex, forked-tongued jabs at politics, and a recently-dumped, superego-heavy protagonist to your favorite Saturday morning cartoon… and make the cutest characters undead. You’d have Richard Moore’s Boneyard, a comic about the cuddly-faced demons, soft-hearted haunts, and wisecracking wraiths who populate the local cemetery. The art – cartoony and big-eyed, with just a few inflata-boobed demonesses – has surprisingly realistically-proportioned heroes, including Michael Paris, a big-nosed bachelor whose body is often intriguingly half-nude, lightly muscular, and skinny in that sexy boy way, and vampire girl Abbey, who features a shockingly sculpted caboose and perky, barely-there-but-boy-you-wanna-see-’em breasts.
Ahem.
There’s something very sexy about Boneyard, and with fun, sharp illustrations and clever characters, it keeps me giggling and turning pages. But it still needs to go a little bit deeper and faster to really keep this bloodsucker satisfied.
(www.nbmpublishing.com)