Sally of the Wasteland #1

Okay, before we get to the review. This is the first review I have put up in about six weeks, but that will change with a lot of reviews coming. And, I am still going to review titles from earlier this year that I was unable to review due to my aneurism. Why? Call it my own form of therapy.

Now, onto a review of a new title!

Sally of the Wasteland #1

Publisher: Titan Comics

Writer: Victor Gischler

Art: Tazio Bettin

Sally is an idiot. But . . . I LOVE her . . .

Sally of the Wasteland is a new post-apocalyptic title from Titan Comics. This is an awesome, fun little title with a very memorable title character (Sally) and comes complete with Crawgators. Yes, Crawgators. How can you not love a book that has Crawgators! (Can’t believe The Asylum didn’t come up with that one.)

Kat, the lone (female) survivor of a scavenger group that searches for old technology with the idea of bringing back civilization finds her way to Sally’s bar. Well, it isn’t really Sally’s bar, but don’t tell her that. Kat is looking for help to go to New Orleans to salvage some important tech. She finds help in the form of a barge captain, Sam, and Tom, a handsome but dim-witted young man. Sally goes along to protect Tom, whom Sally says doesn’t quite understand that he (Tom) belongs to her (Sally).
Things go smoothly – until the giant crawgators destroy the captain’s barge and strand Sally, Kat and Tom on the east shore (which was to be avoided). The first issue ends with Sally unknowingly getting the attention of River Pirates.

Issue 2, Sally versus River Pirates?! My money is on Sally and Bertha. Who is Bertha you ask? Why, Sally’s shotgun of course, silly.

Oh, did I forget to mention that Sally is batshit crazy? Sally makes the WWE’s AJ Lee look like a textbook case of normalcy.

Did I mention I love Sally?

Sally is one of the best new characters to debut in a long time. She is perky, beautiful, well-meaning, batshit crazy, air-headed and an idiot. In fact, she is just like a real person, you should love her. Sally is written like a character from a bad action movie where the dialogue is meant to be ‘quotable’ rather than mean anything. But, it works here, because it comes across as how Sally normally speaks!

The artwork on this title is tremendous. The writing is top notch.

This is a post-apocalyptic book executed properly, with something driving the characters to a goal, an awesome and memorable title character and crawgators!

I Love Sally!

Rating: 8.5

NOTE: Sally of the Wasteland #2 is on sale today. Get your copy before the Crawgators get you!