Tag & Bink: Episode I
by: DarthMolen 2 years, 3 months, 1 week, 5 days, 8 hours, 38 minutes ago
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Star Wars has always been a stuffy place. Although I like my continuity like any good Star Wars geek, I also love a good joke at it’s expense. Spaceballs is my all-time favorite spoof for this very reason. Tag & Bink both deliver the comedy in this last issue of the hilarious mini-series from Dark Horse.
Our inept protaganists, Tag & Bink, start off as bumbling padawans in this episode and it then goes downhill, or uphill depending on your perspective, from there. I am always fascinated how the author fits them seamlessly into just about every major moment in the Star Wars series. Granted it is all tongue and cheek yet he is always striving to add some real credibility to the characters and why they are in those situations. I would liken Tag & Bink to the difference between Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Scary Movie 4. One is trying to tell a story tongue-in-cheek style and the other is “sticking it” to a genre without any thought to preserving any semblance of a continuity. Tag & Bink definitely falls into the latter category and not the former. You can tell that Kevin Rubio cares about the Star Wars universe and it comes out in his writing style.
The art is cartoonish yet fits the story quite well. The quality and style of both the coloring and the artwork is maintained throughout the whole issue. I wouldn’t put it in the realm of the new Rebellion series but it does hold its own.
If you want to laugh about Star Wars yet still like style, then this 2 of 2 mini-series is definitely for you. I give it a 5 out of 5 for both nostalgia and laughability.