Crush & Lobo #3

(October 2021)

Assessment: Painful Childhood or Whatever (Table of Contents: 1)

Crush & Lobo / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Mariko Tamaki (credited)

Pencils

Amancay Nahuelpan (credited)

Inks

Amancay Nahuelpan (credited)

Colors

Tamra Bonvillain (credited)

Letters

Ariana Maher (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hello, my name is [non-translatable characters of a fictional alien language] -- um, Inmate 2412.

Genre

science fiction; superhero

Characters

Crush; Lobo; mantidae creature inmate (carnivorous head-eating, praying mantis-like alien); mantidae creature's visiting son; various inmates at space-penitentiary; robot prison therapist; Katie (Crush's girlfriend, in flashback only); Katie's parents (in flashback only); aliens holding Crush hostage (in flashback only); space-penitentiary robot guards; carjacked alien

Synopsis

After an eventful trip to the space-penitentiary, Crush at last speaks with inmate 2981, aka Lobo, face-to-face, hoping to finally connect with her therapy-modified father, but things do not go as expected. With Lobo, do they ever? Also, in another inmate and offspring visitation, a father and son pair of aliens that eat the heads of their relatives (and any others that might happen to be around) have a "meaningful meeting".

Keywords

alien bonding; Czarnians; daughter; father; flashbacks; fourth-wall-breaking; outer space setting; prison; rehabilitation; relationship issues; therapy; unwelcome surprise

Indexer Notes

Crush speaks to the reader throughout the issue, ending the story over three caption boxes:

"Thus bringing an abrupt end to another chapter of Crush."
"(Yes, this is where they're leaving me. Nice, huh?)"
"See you next month!"