This comic has an eye catching yellow cover that is very thin and you can easily see the other side through it. It has newspaper paper and is in black and white, and the drawing style is caricatures. There is an evident use of the computer - in the lettering, word balloons and sometimes in the drawing (copying a drawing several times in one panel) and there are print-dots sometimes but it doesn't really bother me.
This comics is 40 pages long but the actual comic is 32 pages and the other pages are: a run down of what appears in the next issue, asking for e-mails in hope of starting a letter column, information about comic books, movies and strips with photos (in black and white and gray) that feature the things they mentioned in this issue which is a nice addition.
After that you get a recipe I didn't try that's related to the things in this issue, and a short excerpt from an early comic by Dunlavey and Van-Lente that appeared in an indie anthology that you can continue reading on their website for free, and just one ad for a comicbook series they created.
There is a page in the inside part of the cover taking care of the legalities which they manage to make interesting - I guess you can say it's on page 0, so the 32 pages of comics are 32 pages of comics.
This comicbook series is about the history of comicbooks in a more joking way with lots of great visual gags. The extra information in the end about the different things they referenced is interesting and a nice addition. This is a funny way to learn about the history of comicbooks which uses mainly narration text so there aren't much word balloons.
In this issue you learn about the Disney and Fleischer feud and the development of the animation medium and comics medium, and poverty, worker abuse and greedy businessmen are talked about but not in a doom and gloom way so this isn't a "life sucks, kids" comicbook. You learn about the origins of Superman, about Jack Kurtzberg and about several other people.
I'm sure you can go pick up a stack of books that delve more into the subject that are mentioned here, but I'm not interested in the minor details that much, so I'm not fussed.
This is a fun, funny and enjoyable look at the history of comicbooks, and I recommend picking this up if you're interested in comicbook history and you want a lighthearted version with lots of visual gags and a caricature look to the art. It seems to have a decent amount of text and the additions are nice, so you get value for your bucks.
Also - this is a comic comicbook which is a rare sight.
The issue ends with Jack Kurtzberg becoming Jack Kirby. If you don't want to gamble, you can see an excerpt of the first issue in the Evil Twin Comics website, but it's not an excerpt from the beginning of the issue.
In the back cover it tells you what are the subject discussed in this comicbook.
I enjoyed this and bought the second issue which should arrive any time now.
Story: 4 - Very Good
Art: 4 - Very Good
