The Many Deaths of Scott Koblish

May 7, 2018
In this lightweight but charming humor collection, DC and Marvel artist Koblish (Deadpool) draws himself dying in ways imaginative, mundane, and frequently impossible. In one comic after another, most only a page long, his smiling, hapless cartoon doppelgänger is devoured by baboons, beaten by a boxing kangaroo, carried into space by balloons, killed by his own hair, and, as many cartoonists have no doubt imagined themselves perishing, left to die of old age at a fan convention while waiting for someone to buy one of his comics. He also falls off a lot of mountains. Some deaths are ironic, others just amusingly cruel. Koblish’s appealing black-and-white line art, with occasional spot color on the instruments of his demise, helps sell the thin concept. His action-comics style is simplified but lifelike, and the unfortunate Cartoon Scott is cute as he naively wanders into one dangerous situation after another like a video game avatar. His fans will pick up this slim collection of cheerfully grim gags as a diversion between Koblick’s bigger projects.