Plastic Farm #1

Title: Plastic Farm
Issue: #1
Date: March, 2003
Publisher: Plastic Farm Press
Writer: Rafer Roberts, Sean C. Duffey
Artist: Rafer Roberts, Jake Warrenfeltz

Chester "Cheezer" Carter wakes up in a puddle of vomit with vague memories of crashing his car sometime the previous night. Other than that, the only thing on his mind is the mythical Kamikaze Kid, whose stories always begin with him riding his dinosaur into town and heading straight for the bar.

The Kamikaze Kid segment actually takes up most of this issue, with the Kid finding out that maybe asking the fortune teller to be more specific isn't such a good idea.

Rafer Roberts' story is alternately shocking, funny, and bizarre, and it's loaded with smart dialogue and clever little bits of detail. It's a solid start for the series (which is good because my wife purchased the whole series at SPACE last weekend, so I'll be reviewing a lot of these books). Definitely on the bizarre side, Plastic Farm is one of those books that will leave the reader thinking about what just happened and wondering how the story could possibly get stranger. And if this issue is any indication, the story will find a way.

Backup story is a hard SF tale by Sean C. Duffey and Rafer Roberts is well handled with aliens who actually look alien (in a Cthulhu kinda way) and a pretty complex plot.

Rating: 7.5/10