Spoon & White, Tome 7 : Manhattan Kaputt

Spoon & White is a comic book series about two policemen, Mickey Spoon and Donald White, in New York. Spoon is a trigger-happy Clint Eastwood fan and White is a gawky descendant of the passengers of Mayflower. Together they are a disaster. Manhattan Kaputt starts with the duo killing their lead witness. Then, they are forced to co-operate with CIA to apprehend a terrorist threatening to blow up Manhattan. The terrorist is holding TV announcer Courtney Balconi, the shared object of desire of the two policemen, as a hostage.

The story consists of lightly veiled parody of American way of life, television shows, and Jack Bauer, and is quite funny as such. The art is a delicious combination of cartoony style and gruesome violence. ( )