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Scud: The Whole Shebang | 
 enlarge | Authors: Rob Schrab, Dan Harmon, Mondy Carter, Jack Grey
Publisher: Image Comics
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 40098
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 786
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 6.6 x 1.3
ISBN: 1582406855
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781582406855
ASIN: 1582406855
Publication Date: August 6, 2008
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Product Description
In the world of Scud, bullets are cheaper than human life. Corner vending machines provide any weapon you might need. The most popular weapons are Scud disposable assassins: Robot hitmen that self-destruct when they kill their target. This volume follows Scud 1373, assigned to take out a hideous female man-eater named Jeff. While fighting the indestructible Jeff, Scud discovers his infamous warning panel in a bathroom mirror. Realizing that to kill Jeff is to kill himself, Scud blows off her arms and legs and hospitalizes her. Her life support bills will have to be paid, and Scud will have to find more work to stay alive.
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Delicious and Nutritious October 10, 2008
At first glance the artwork somewhat resembles JTHM, well, at least for the first few pages. It's witty, and completely enjoyable. If you like sick humor, an absurd plot with a really spiffy twist, this is for you
Will Kill For Money October 3, 2008
This is an awesome collection to an awesome comic series that just never seemed to get enough love.
The book is THICK, which is pretty much expected, but i read it cover to cover in one sitting without thinking about it when i first got it in.
Definalty a must buy. Instant Classic. I only hope that they decide to put the other comic series in this format too. Scud: Tales of the Vending Machine, etc...
Goes out with a shebang September 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
NOTE
I had no intention of writing a review for this, until I saw how diminutive the other is (there's only one at the time of this writing).
ABOUT SCUD
What can one say about Scud? Scud is one of the more eclectic, bizarre comics out there. Oddball pop-culture references wrapped in a macabre, twisted sense of humor abound. For those of you unfamiliar with the series, think of it as a mix of The Tick (Edlund's version), and Lobo.
The story itself follows the adventures of a disposable robot whose duty it is to dispose of a target and then self-destruct. Through an accident of fate, Scud realizes the catch-22 of his charge, and compromises by permanently (he thinks) incapacitating his target, doing assassination side-work to cover the life-support bills.
As the storyline progresses, the reader becomes aware that "Jeff", his initial target, is in fact an instrument of biblical prophesy, and his actions have resulted in his now being firmly enmeshed in a titanic struggle between heaven, hell, psychotic robots, and the lunatic fringe of civilian society.
ABOUT THIS BOOK (EDITION)
This is a truly strange, yet uncannily satisfying series, but, like the original Tick comics, are almost entirely out of print. Thus, this edition, the Whole Shebang, a graphic novel encompassing ALL of the issues released (plus a few bonuses more) is fully worth it. There won't be any more, and, with as peculiar of a demographic as this book targets, even it won't be around long, most likely.
This book contains the whole run of the series, including the four-part resolution, published after Scud's ten-year hiatus (the author, Rob Schrab, had decided he wished to focus on other projects, leaving his readership hanging with a decade-long cliffhanger). It further contains Drywall: Unzipped (the tale of Scud's unlikely sidekick and pretty much a necessity to understanding the oddball plot) and Black Octopus: Sexy Genius (a functionally unrelated but still amusing mini-book).
The book itself is HUGE (almost 800 pages), and mostly black-and-white. It makes for a great coffee table book as long as you don't have kids, or gift to a comic lover. At 20 bucks, it's worth it (I read ridiculously fast. Comics aren't worth it to me in most cases, as I can burn through a book in minutes. This one's mammoth enough to be able to actually site down and READ).
All in all, buy this book. If you've never heard of Scud, it's amusing, and a great deal for the price. Give it a shot. If you're already a fan, definitely get it, it's everything in one place, and for a lot less than you paid for the individual books, even at newsstand price.
Scudlicious September 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I won't bother telling you how great Scud is, if you've never read it, BUY NOW!! High action, great references, original story and characters, and a story teller that gets you invested in the characters. The panels.. fluid and swift. This is a hard one to set down. The quality is great! I was thrilled when my copy came in. You can't not read it, and everyone should own it!
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