Dennis Chambers 🍉🏳️🌈
@dennischambers.bsky.social
I write and read things.
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While not a continuous narrative like the first series,Madman Adventures is more fun,plays to the strengths of its creators,and altogether feels like a better realized vision.Even more than the first series,which I’m not implying to skip,I recommend Madman Adventures to anyone who loves art and fun.
August 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
While not a continuous narrative like the first series,Madman Adventures is more fun,plays to the strengths of its creators,and altogether feels like a better realized vision.Even more than the first series,which I’m not implying to skip,I recommend Madman Adventures to anyone who loves art and fun.
Working in tandem with Allred’s writing is, obviously, the wonderfully vivid, poppy colors provided by his wife, Laura.Her colors give this world a texture that reminds me of plastic balls in a ball-pit or party balloons. People really aren’t exaggerating when mentioning her contributions to Madman
August 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Working in tandem with Allred’s writing is, obviously, the wonderfully vivid, poppy colors provided by his wife, Laura.Her colors give this world a texture that reminds me of plastic balls in a ball-pit or party balloons. People really aren’t exaggerating when mentioning her contributions to Madman
This shouldn’t be mistaken for a loss of depth or maturity. The contemplative, philosophical moments from The Oddity Odyssey are more plentiful and even richer here. These two aspects work to make this series both a breezier and more thought provoking experience.
August 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
This shouldn’t be mistaken for a loss of depth or maturity. The contemplative, philosophical moments from The Oddity Odyssey are more plentiful and even richer here. These two aspects work to make this series both a breezier and more thought provoking experience.
An immediate difference between Adventures and the first series is tone. While the first one had this 90s Burton/Lynch feeling to it,mixing the macabre with the silly,this series adopts a lighter feeling that embraces a swashbuckling,Silver Age zannisess which compliments Allred’s comedic strengths
August 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
An immediate difference between Adventures and the first series is tone. While the first one had this 90s Burton/Lynch feeling to it,mixing the macabre with the silly,this series adopts a lighter feeling that embraces a swashbuckling,Silver Age zannisess which compliments Allred’s comedic strengths
while the third, double-sized issue sees Madman and Dr. Flem trying to help Dr. Boiffard,who has become addicted to experimental injections meant to increase his intelligence and is increasingly mean as a result, lighten up with a camping trip only to get ensconced in an alien encounter(2/2)
August 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
while the third, double-sized issue sees Madman and Dr. Flem trying to help Dr. Boiffard,who has become addicted to experimental injections meant to increase his intelligence and is increasingly mean as a result, lighten up with a camping trip only to get ensconced in an alien encounter(2/2)
Unlike the previous three-issue story, The Oddity Odyssey, this volume does not tell one cohesive story. Instead, the first two-issues deal with Madman’s first meeting with the father of his girlfriend, Joe, and helping Dr. Flem in a time traveling experiment that strands him in the Stone Age (1/2)
August 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Unlike the previous three-issue story, The Oddity Odyssey, this volume does not tell one cohesive story. Instead, the first two-issues deal with Madman’s first meeting with the father of his girlfriend, Joe, and helping Dr. Flem in a time traveling experiment that strands him in the Stone Age (1/2)
I recently read Madman Adventures, @allredmd.bsky.social’s three issue follow-up to the first Madman mini-series.
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August 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I recently read Madman Adventures, @allredmd.bsky.social’s three issue follow-up to the first Madman mini-series.
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Madman defied popular trends and potential sales in the name of staying true to the sensibilities of its creator. I highly recommend seeking out the oddball comic ❤️ (3/3)
July 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Madman defied popular trends and potential sales in the name of staying true to the sensibilities of its creator. I highly recommend seeking out the oddball comic ❤️ (3/3)
Allred never lets us get too gloomy, though, frequently including moments of humor relying either on Madman’s awkward,dorky persona,flip book images of him dancing,or the strangeness of the world he inhabits. And strange it is featuring zombie clones, talking severed heads, and mad scientists.
July 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Allred never lets us get too gloomy, though, frequently including moments of humor relying either on Madman’s awkward,dorky persona,flip book images of him dancing,or the strangeness of the world he inhabits. And strange it is featuring zombie clones, talking severed heads, and mad scientists.
Mixed in is a tendency toward violence by Madman(our first scene sees him rip out, ingest, and vomit an eye belonging to one of Monstadt’s goons)and the other people he meets(like two homophobic, bank robbing rednecks). Violence always feels abrupt in the story, reminding us how fragile respite is.
July 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Mixed in is a tendency toward violence by Madman(our first scene sees him rip out, ingest, and vomit an eye belonging to one of Monstadt’s goons)and the other people he meets(like two homophobic, bank robbing rednecks). Violence always feels abrupt in the story, reminding us how fragile respite is.
The story’s tone is a meditative, melodramatic, lightly surreal, and darkly comedic. Throughout, Madman struggles with his missing memories and tries to understand life’s meaning in a world so strange and chaotic as this heightened 1990s America. These quieter moments are the most beautiful.
July 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The story’s tone is a meditative, melodramatic, lightly surreal, and darkly comedic. Throughout, Madman struggles with his missing memories and tries to understand life’s meaning in a world so strange and chaotic as this heightened 1990s America. These quieter moments are the most beautiful.
This sends Madman on a lengthy journey to from his native Snap City to the neighboring Buzztown. At the same time, the violent and villainous Mr. Monstadt who hopes to use the formulae for immortality written in Boiffard’s journals to take over the world. (2/2)
July 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
This sends Madman on a lengthy journey to from his native Snap City to the neighboring Buzztown. At the same time, the violent and villainous Mr. Monstadt who hopes to use the formulae for immortality written in Boiffard’s journals to take over the world. (2/2)
The Oddity Odyssey introduces an amnesiac costumed man, our titular “Madman”, with the power to read the memories and feelings of those he touches. His friend, Dr. Boiffard, has been killed and left Madman the task of resurrecting him with the help fellow scientist Dr. Flem (1/2)
July 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The Oddity Odyssey introduces an amnesiac costumed man, our titular “Madman”, with the power to read the memories and feelings of those he touches. His friend, Dr. Boiffard, has been killed and left Madman the task of resurrecting him with the help fellow scientist Dr. Flem (1/2)
I recently re-read @allredmd.bsky.social’s original three issue Madman series: The Oddity Odyssey.
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July 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I recently re-read @allredmd.bsky.social’s original three issue Madman series: The Oddity Odyssey.
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A thread.
Overall, Top 10 is a wonderful blending of genres and demonstrates Moore’s capacity to write material primarily interested in pure entertainment as well as his more famously dense and complex pieces. I recommend checking it out, but only The Forty-Niners and Top 10’s original run.
July 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Overall, Top 10 is a wonderful blending of genres and demonstrates Moore’s capacity to write material primarily interested in pure entertainment as well as his more famously dense and complex pieces. I recommend checking it out, but only The Forty-Niners and Top 10’s original run.
Someone I failed to mention in my posts about The Forty-Niners is the great Todd Klein’s typically brilliant lettering. His use of unique fonts, colors, speech bubble shape and outlining give the bizarre and fantastical denizens of Neopolis very unique voices.
July 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Someone I failed to mention in my posts about The Forty-Niners is the great Todd Klein’s typically brilliant lettering. His use of unique fonts, colors, speech bubble shape and outlining give the bizarre and fantastical denizens of Neopolis very unique voices.
The art by Gene Ha and Zander Cannon is nothing less than stunning. As in The Forty-Niners, the detail of Ha’s environments and three-dimensionality of his figures is consistently breathtaking in each issue. Of note is the grittier color pallets adding a grimier dimension to this crime series
July 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The art by Gene Ha and Zander Cannon is nothing less than stunning. As in The Forty-Niners, the detail of Ha’s environments and three-dimensionality of his figures is consistently breathtaking in each issue. Of note is the grittier color pallets adding a grimier dimension to this crime series
by the introduction of more explicit elements of other genres like sexual content, vulgar language, adult subject matter like drug addiction, more gruesome violence, or moral ambiguity. This isn’t to say Moore viewed superheroes with disdain yet but moreso saw them as inherently shallow.
July 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
by the introduction of more explicit elements of other genres like sexual content, vulgar language, adult subject matter like drug addiction, more gruesome violence, or moral ambiguity. This isn’t to say Moore viewed superheroes with disdain yet but moreso saw them as inherently shallow.
This isn’t to say Moore doesn’t explore serious or profound ideas,issue 8 is an incredible meditation on death and religious faith,but the comic feels geared more toward entertainment rather than being challenging or moving.This isn’t a defect,not everything must be deep,but deserves mentioning.
July 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This isn’t to say Moore doesn’t explore serious or profound ideas,issue 8 is an incredible meditation on death and religious faith,but the comic feels geared more toward entertainment rather than being challenging or moving.This isn’t a defect,not everything must be deep,but deserves mentioning.
The drawback is the series doesn’t feel like a nuances exploration of life in the real world. There are flirtations with exploring racism through discrimination via bigotry toward robots but this is largely played for laughs. The same is true for drug addiction through numerous super drugs seen.
July 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The drawback is the series doesn’t feel like a nuances exploration of life in the real world. There are flirtations with exploring racism through discrimination via bigotry toward robots but this is largely played for laughs. The same is true for drug addiction through numerous super drugs seen.
The benefits of this are that the series is incredibly readable, a single issue or multiple being equally satisfying, and how absurd the comedy can get. There are so many scenarios and sight gags that left me in stitches almost everytime I sat down to read this series.
July 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The benefits of this are that the series is incredibly readable, a single issue or multiple being equally satisfying, and how absurd the comedy can get. There are so many scenarios and sight gags that left me in stitches almost everytime I sat down to read this series.
Unlike The Forty-Niners, there isn’t a core theme or idea that’s being examined through these references. Where the first book felt like a surreal reflection on the immigrant experience and returning soldiers after WWII, this series really only strives to be an enjoyably zany police procedural.
July 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Unlike The Forty-Niners, there isn’t a core theme or idea that’s being examined through these references. Where the first book felt like a surreal reflection on the immigrant experience and returning soldiers after WWII, this series really only strives to be an enjoyably zany police procedural.
The series is structured so that each issue deals with an individual case, usually focusing on different members of the cast, with ongoing plot threads centered on a serial killer and a murdered drug runner. Like The Forty-Niners, all of this is mixed with superhero tropes and deep cut references.
July 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The series is structured so that each issue deals with an individual case, usually focusing on different members of the cast, with ongoing plot threads centered on a serial killer and a murdered drug runner. Like The Forty-Niners, all of this is mixed with superhero tropes and deep cut references.
This is the area where Moore’s writing sings,incorporating themes tropes and themes of police procedural such as Hill Street Blues or Law & Order like domestic drama,close relationships between partners,and struggling under the burden of police work to create a cast of well-rounded characters.
July 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This is the area where Moore’s writing sings,incorporating themes tropes and themes of police procedural such as Hill Street Blues or Law & Order like domestic drama,close relationships between partners,and struggling under the burden of police work to create a cast of well-rounded characters.
Although the series initially focuses on a POV character in the new transfer Robyn Slinger, AKA Toybox, the scope quickly expands to follow any and all officers stationed at Top 10.
July 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Although the series initially focuses on a POV character in the new transfer Robyn Slinger, AKA Toybox, the scope quickly expands to follow any and all officers stationed at Top 10.