Sgt. Mike Battle + Watchblood
From Pier-C Comics, free with every copy of Sgt. Mike Battle comes 'Watchblood'. Graham Pearce admit that he did it years ago, thus countering the argument of its relevancy. Its more than competent at dealing with vindicating the pile of shite comics Pearcey must have read in the 90s. (The techniques of his subject have certainly been analysed). Through the character of best-selling cartoonist Rob Leningrad, Pearce's aim is simply egotist destruction. And through clever placing of irrelevancies he manages this. Not everybody's cup of tea, but it made me laugh quite a lot.
We read these when we got back from the pub and Guiness Paul said of Sgt. Mike Battle, 'highly how Americans view themselves. Yank troops in the Gulf shooting themselves blamed on Commie hallucination gas. Plenty of absurdities.' Lot's of un-pc stereotypes milked, it follows a Captain America-type if I remember rightly. The artwork doesn't really relate to any style of the times, that the writing presumably seeks to emulate. And as Paul implies, there are a few laughs and moments of conceit
So yeah, Graham Pearce, 10 Kingsmead Court, Yarmouth Gardens, Shirley, Southampton, SO15 5SF
About sixty A5 pages of this guy for around £2.