Corey Pandolph keeps busy.
He's getting set to launch new Barkeater Lake strips on GoComics once the reruns have finished in early April. He's also continuing his work on The Elderberries, which he took over when creators Joe Troise and the late Phil Frank stepped away from the series in May 2007. He writes regular columns for DrinkAtWork.com, Bollard.com and MAD Magazine.
Apparently starved to find something to fill up all that free time he's been wasting between his day, night and weekend jobs, Pandolph has added one more item to his ongoing to-do list: a new comic strip called TOBY, Robot Satan.
How to describe TOBY? Well, he's an insane robot with delusions of demonic grandeur and aspirations of world domination. After he emerges dramatically from a subway during a thunderstorm, TOBY announces himself as the Prince of Darkness, finds his way to a pub called McGullwack's, and is taken in by Morris Gumboot, the pub's vertically-challenged, middle-aged bartender. Fun like this ensues:
As he has previously established with his work on "Barkeater Lake" and "The Elderberries," Corey Pandolph is a very funny cartoonist with a lot of talent. His strips are typically very funny, well structured, and have a distinctly good drawing style.
But on "TOBY Robot Satan," while much of the material is funny so far, I'm just not sure if I'm sold on the overall concept. How much material can be milked from this anyway? Won't it get tired and repetitive eventually? I don't even like the characters that much. But Corey Pandolph is a very funny cartoonist with a lot of talent. I'm sure he'll find a way to keep this funny and fresh...or hit it big with "Barkeater Lake" and dump this one.
Posted by: Reader of the Comics | March 04, 2008 at 03:58 PM