Title: Super Frat Rush Week Collection
Author: Tony DiGerolamo, Chris Moreno
Publisher: Silent Devil
Copyright: 2006
Pages: 48
Price: $4.95
Rating: 8
Synopsis:
Drink beer, get laid, fight crime! When a meteor hit the worst fraternity on campus, all the brothers, except one, got super powers. With more than 20 pages of new material, this collection includes the first storyline from the Super Frat webcomic. "Easy as C.I.A." is the first Super Frat adventure in standard comic book format. Homeland Security will never be the same. Based on the adventures of Lambda Sigma Rho fraternity on the campus of prestigious Ryesmore University in New York.
Review:
This is what happens when fraternity boys acquire super powers...
Toilet humor. Excessive, unnecessary profanity. Crude depictions of disgusting bodilly functions. Drug and alcohol usage. Nudity and sexual content. Racist jokes and no respect for any type of authority whatsoever.
It's friggin' South Park all over again--I loved this book!
It was both hilarious and refreshing to read something dominated by vast amounts of unapologetic testosterone for once. All the LSR boys of Rysemore become the same juvenile, immature pseudo-delinquents from our high school days with whom we loved to hang.
And then wonder why...?
Well, if you love satire, political commentary, comedic sexual innuendo, and fart jokes, this sucker's a must read for you. On top of that, dear Sisters and Brothers (and pledges), the art is actually good. Moreno's art style is remniscent of the Sunday Funnies while showing a really good background in realism--he has a wonderful knack for picking the most appropriate facial expressions for any given situation and his use the greyscale makes makes for an extra dimension of life to the light and shadows, adding a wonderful amount of depth to the scenes. "Dick Enraged" was a beautiful example of this--no, Dick is one of the Brothers. Sicko.
You don't need to be a college grad, of course, to know that no work is perfect--Super Frat is no exception. The coloring was smudged in ways that were obviously unintentional in a few select areas. The lettering was difficult to read at at times, and there were at least 3 typos throughout. In addition, a couple of the "punch lines," so to speak, must have gone straight over my head because they weren't too funny.
But you can't please everybody right? This book still made me laugh out loud many times from beginning to end (keep an eye out for "an anarchist's wet dream!"). It gets an 8 out of 10 for that as well as the pleasing artwork: Go Lambda Sigma Rho!
-Joamette Gil
