The cover on this one threw me because I thought it was a comic about some sailor guy. It seems this one is very loosely based on a band from the East Coast in the late seventies by the name of Famous Monsters. The guy in the sailor hat and peacoat was the lead singer of the group and, in the comic, he is brought to coherence by an injection of who knows what, but if you give him alcohol, he becomes the hulk. This band has built some sort of urban legend. It seems that the band dispersed after a member got shanked and died. The story goes that they felt one of the other members did it and the remaining two went into hiding. One of those hiding was this Tupelo character, who, as the legend has it, roams around avenging the ass beatings stupid people give to the homeless. They even have a story at the end of a supposed victim. So what is there left to say? Mystery and punk rock – isn’t that what life’s about? This one makes good on the premise that a good legend can make a great comic. (SLG Publishing, P.O Box 26427, San Jose, CA95159-6427, www,slavelabor.com)