written by Grant Morrison, drawn by Phil Jimenez and John Stokes

What do you do when you find out the super-heroes are losing their bite and the fanboys start liking the villains better than the squeaky clean all-American heroes? One answer is to turn the tables, create a gang of kick-ass, violent weirdoes in a mould the comic fans will happily back, then make them the anarchist heroes fighting the whole Earth power-system which is run bay aliens setting the world up for Armageddon in 2012.

In this scenario any excess is allowable to the heroes who annoy the evil controlling masters who most don't even see as in league with the devil. Bloody Hell in America is the second collection of the Invisibles by Grant Morrison and it allows weird and wonderful ideas to be pasted in all through the stories. In this story the gang run initially by King Mob tries to get an anti HIV serum from a secret base. In passing they find out a lot of weird shit including the fact the the Roswell incident was created by Oppenheimer's bomb rather than aliens.

The cover artwork on the front and inside by Bolland is superb but the efforts of Phil Jimenez as penciller and John Stokes as inker deliver a garish but relatively uninvolving series of pictures. There are whiffs of X-files and The Invaders here and readers who love throw-away ideas littering the pages like tropical fish in a broken tank, will love the story. However, as a comic it doesn't quite all come together.

 Graeme Hurry

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