Former X-Force penciller Adam Pollina is back with his creator-owned series Big Daddy Danger.  This is a strange one.

Big Daddy Danger is (ahem) a masked wrestling champion who fights evil by night as a masked spy.  Obviously, being British, when I see the words "Big Daddy" and "wrestling" in the same sentence, I have unpleasant lard flashbacks.  I have no clue why Pollina is using the name, but there you go.

Obviously, Pollina is not taking this concept seriously by any stretch of the imagination.  He's already sold the film rights for this book, and he adopts a cartoonish, exaggerated style for the artwork which is gives the book a Loony Tunes feel.  The general approach suggests that kids are the primary audience here, although the book has a clear sense of its own ridiculousness, and should work for older retailers on that level.

No book can be accused of taking itself too seriously when it includes narration like "When the world is held hostage, and enemies threaten our shores, who is behind the wheel of the righteousmobile?"  Oh, and our hero appears to be managed by Colonel Sanders.

This is an entirely kayfabe version of wrestling, by the way (ie, it's supposed to be for real).  The whole book has a rather charming innocence to it, and gets away with using some fairly stock plots as a hook to hang it all on.  You know the sort of thing - the mayor's daughter has been kidnapped, the hero's son is upset that dad isn't spending enough time with him.

It's fun, but I'm not sure I'm really looking to read a nine issue miniseries of this.  The kids should enjoy it, though.

Rating: B+

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