Scud is a comic book by Rob Schrab. Scud exists in a surreal, funked up future where anyone can buy a robot assassin from a vending machine. After the hit the robot self destructs, no muss no fuss.
Our hero, Scud, has been sent after a bizarre apocalyptic monster. When he realizes that he'll self destruct once the job is done, he has to find work to keep the monster on life support. It only gets weirder from there.
It was a funny, original ride that unfortunately sputtered out at issue #20.
Scud creator Rob Schrab's other projects - La Casa Nostroid, about gangsters in giant robots, as well as some Scud spin-off series, all sputtered out too. I was a big fan of everything he wrote, so I was very disappointed. But Rob didn't stop creating, he just put his energy elsewhere.
He made a cool indy short called Robot Bastard, and wrote the t.v. pilot to a mindblowingly awesome show called Jack & Heatvision, (Directed by Ben Stiller) with Jack Black as a superpowered astronaut and Owen Wilson as his talking motorcycle.
So I don't care what he does, as long as he keeps on doing it. If you're favorite flavors are Surreal and Funky, do yourself a favor and check out Rob Schrab's work.
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