Nerdy kids get bullied until they start high school and their bully realises there are bigger bullies and starts getting a taste of his own medicine! To save face, he must enter the Bully Wars, an absurd local competition for the town’s bullies to prove their mettle - or something - and… the nerds is gonna help him win?!
Hmm. Nope! Didn’t think much of Skottie Young’s latest unfortunately. The premise and story are both uninteresting, none of the jokes land, and it all plays out predictably, replete with a tacky feel-good ending.
The characters are generic (also Coach Hurt is just a younger version of Southern Bastards’ Coach Boss), and one of the main characters is inconsistently written - one moment he’s a genius who can knock together brilliant gadgets at the drop of a hat, the next he doesn’t know directions like north/south/east/west??
It’s a shame it’s not drawn by Young as I love his art but Aaron Conley’s visuals aren’t bad and they’re coloured nicely by I Hate Fairyland colourist, Jean-Francois Beaulieu. The layouts are imaginative too and I liked the homage to the awesome opening scene of 1994’s Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie where Ryu fought Sagat.
Bully Wars is basically for ten year olds and/or fans of Nickelodeon as it reads very much like one of their shows. And, because I’m neither, I was bored for most of this! Hopefully Skottie Young’s next book is more my speed.
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