Miami Vice Remix #4
Written by Joe Casey
Art & Letters by Jim Mahfood
Colors by Justin Stewart & Steven Chunn
Edited by Shannon Eric Denton
Production Art by Kristen Fitzner Denton
Cover art by Jim Mahfood
IDW Publishing
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Cover Price: $3.99

Miami Vice Remix #4 can easily be described in just one word: crazy. There are a couple of words that belong in front of that, but, this is a family friendly website so I won’t include them. If you thought the first three issues have been a ride, this one will blow you away!

Miami Vice Remix #3
Written by Joe Casey
Art by Jim Mahfood
Colors by Justin Stewart
Edited by Shannon Eric Denton
Production Artist: Kristen Fitzner Denton
Cover art by Jim Mahfood
IDW Publishing
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Cover Price: $3.99

Miami Vice Remix #3 is crazy. Everything about it crazy. There’s cops on drugs, an alligator, voodoo drug dealers, a crying police captain, the list goes on and on. What’s even crazier is that everything about this book works. It works really well. Let’s take a more in-depth look…

Writer Joe Casey just dumps everything that he has in his head out on the page, and it works in an amazing way. Not only that, but make no mistake, this IS Miami Vice in every sense of the words. He’s taken everything that was amazing about the television show and turned it on its ear and made it relevant for today’s audience, while not making it totally unrecognizable for people like me, who watched and loved the series.

Visual Funk: Jim Mahfood Art
Hardcover
By Jim Mahfood
IDW Publishing
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Cover Price: $49.99

Visual Funk: Jim Mahfood Art isn’t an examination of Jim Mahfood‘s comics work, that is, the work that made him famous (a brief look at Tank Girl notwithstanding), so there’s no narrative structure, nor a chronological exploration. And unlike similar books examining an artist’s oeuvre, there’s minimal text, save for brief subject introductions by Mahfood.

What it is, is a compendium of mostly posters, showcasing Mahfood’s angular, cartoony, street-level, graffiti, hip-hop via manga style “” page after page crackling with energy and attitude. I also saw many elements in his ink work that reminded me of the art of Bill Sienkiewicz, Ted McKeever, Ralph Steadman, and Joe Ollmann.

In honor of today being 4/20, the deal of the day over at TFAW was Ziggy Marley’s Marijuanaman Of course it sold out immediately, but you can still purchase Marijuanaman over at Amazon for even less! It’s currently on sale for $18.24 (that’s 27% off the list price of $24.99).

Released by Image Comics on April 20, 2011, this 48-page full-color oversized hardcover graphic novel was written by Joe Casey with art by Jim Mahfood and based on a character conceived of by Ziggy Marley.