Running The Gamut With Americans UK

Americans UK #2
Written by Jef UK
Illustrated by Paul Ciaravino, ZEES & Anthony Fleecs
Production by Jeff Powell & Darin Murano
Lettering by Ben!
Self-published
Reviewed by Richard Caldwell

With this issue, Jef UK, the frontman for the hard living (and real life) band Americans UK has turned the black and white comic into an anthology. God save us all.

The Man From The Future, the continuing story from the previous iss, shows us at long last who it was that killed fully half of Americans UK. The fiendish bastard. And with a new threat unveiled, the saga will carry on.
Ciaravino ups the art ante quite a bit with this installment, coming off as though he read some comics by Frank Quitely.
I, Apeman is a visual representation of the band’s song of the same name. A testament to the lengths of trouble that the predominance of testosterone always tends to get our species into. ZEES needs to be drawing for MAD magazine. I mean that in a good way.
The Better Head is a text story, with the frontispiece featuring personality-filled work by the ever industrious Tony Fleecs. The story of a head in a jar and how the flying hell it got there, this is simply one of the greatest revenge fantasies I have read in a long time. For a rock singer dude, Jef really knows how to twist a word.

So ultimately, this is all just insane fun. Size up their myspace page to hear the songs that inspired the craziness. Score a FREE downloadable copy of this here comic book through their website, or via the hardworking kids at the very fine LiterateMachine.

www.americans-uk.com
www.jefwrites.com
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