12 Must-Read First Issues From The New DC You Line

By Bryant Lucas /

2. Bizarro

Like Bat-Mite, Bizarro is DC€™s attempt to create an all-ages title, and boy do they knock it out of the park. In this title writer Heath Corson tells the misadventures of Bizarro and Jimmy as they undertake a road trip from Metropolis to Canada (or as they call it €œBizarro America€). Corson€™s script is hilarious as it pits the backwards-talking, buffoon Bizarro alongside the strait man Jimmy Olsen, whose plan is to document his trip in order to write a coffee table book and make millions. Corson€™s script is fast paced and funny, as it cuts quickly from scene to scene delivering quick and snappy punch lines. Gustavo Duarte€™s art is charming, as every character is drawn as a caricature. Bizarro is rendered as a charming, idiotic hulk with a heart of gold; Jimmy Olsen is wiry and pencil thin with outrageously long, gangly limbs; and even the first €œfoe€ they meet is a short, fat, foppish used-car salesman who has a strange obsession with the pharaohs of Egypt. Each panel is exquisite and visually hilarious. Unlike Bat-Mite, which feels derivative of the Animaniacs, Bizarro feel fresh and new, both in writing and art. Bizarro #1 is a fresh reminder that comics can be both quality and fun.