AIRBOY #1: We begin with James Robinson sitting on his toilet, doing his business and talking to Eric Stephenson, the publisher of Image Comics. Eric is trying to sell Robinson on the idea of writing a new AIRBOY comic. Robinson is dead set against it until Eric offers him the same money he would get from DC Comics. Realizing he needs the money, he meets up with artist Greg Hinkle and the two head off to a motel room to begin work. The creative energies just aren’t happening, so they end up on a lengthy bar crawl filled with cocaine, horse tranquilizers, ecstasy, and even heroin. They end up picking up a lonely barfly and taking her back to the motel, where they have some pretty intense sex. Later, the two creators decide to finish off the last of the cocaine when Airboy arrives, telling them that “this behavior will not stand”.Okay…meet THE BOOK OF THE YEAR!!! This is truly the weirdest, wildest and most AMAZING thing I have read in some time. This is a MUST READ that should be on YOUR list of titles to have pulled each month! But KEEP IT FROM THE KIDS!!! Robinson and Hinkle have turned out the BOOK OF THE YEAR and I am SURE this will be the darling of the Eisners. Is it autobiographical? I hope not, based on everything our heroes do! Is it insane? Let’s see: we have two creators on a self-destructive, drug-fueled binge, that ends up with them tag teaming a well-worn barfly in a seedy motel room. And then, just when you think you have seem it all between the bodily functions, the language, the drugs and the sex, not to mention Hinkle and Robinson’s “anacondas”, Airboy arrives and scolds them. Now, here is something to notice: the entire book is in shades of green, brown, and red, EXCEPT for Airboy, who is in LIVING COLOR! Is he a drug-induced dream or the real thing? Find out next issue, as our creators have to deal this creation come to life.
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