There are plenty of comic fans each year at San Diego Comic Con (oh, sorry, Comic-Con International) who are familiar with Glenn Danzig's work as a musical artist. In the encounters I've had with him at comic book shows over the years, he's been nothing but genial, never showing off the attitude that one might expect from a punk and metal legend. Whether you like him or not, he does come across as quite a cartoon, so I thought it ingenious that these four cartoonists paired him up with another punk/metal legend who has become a cartoon as well, Henry Rollins, and made them the protagonists of a series of one-panel cartoons.The star of the group is Tom Neely. His gags are the funniest - even if he wasn't the first one of the group to come up with the "Do these pants make my butt look fat?" gag, he pulls it off the best - and his cartooning is the strongest. Levon Jihanian comes in a close second, but doesn't put the effort in to make each panel its own story, instead letting the gags rest in illustrative isolation.
The one thing that none of the cartoonists manage to pull off is visual accuracy in their caricatures. Neely does a tremendous job of divining the physical appearance of both men, transforming Rollins into a shirt-and-shoeless Dick Tracy, and putting just the right amount of mince into diminutive Danzig, but didn't bother to do his homework. Rollins is covered in tattoos in real life, and while I could buy that the shaved chest that appears here is apt, it is a glaring omission to fail to include the ink.
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