Jul 8, 2025
Local Man (2023) #7
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Local Man (2023) #7
I just read the latest issue of LOCAL MAN and im GIDDY!! AAAAAAAAIIIIIII!!!!!!!!
So the whole story up to this point has been two-sided, with one story being a flashback of sorts and in the back of the issue, upside down. Jack gets fed a nigh-lethal dose of drugs and starts seeing the comic elements. he hits his head on the panel borders. im going insaneeeeeeeee hehehHEHEHEHHEHEHEHHEHEHEH and he BREAKS THE PANEL BORDERS,
WALKS THROUGH THE ADS
AND INTO THE UPSIDEDOWN STORY
TO REVEAL THAT IT WAS INGA
Local Man #1 is getting a second printing with a new cover by Tony Fleecs and Tim Seeley. Here’s what I had to say about the first issue over on Smash Pages:
The other first issue I read this week was Local Man, the new Image Comics title by Tim Seeley and Tony Fleecs, along with colorists Brad Simpson and Felipe Sobriero. It introduces us to Crossjack, a down-on-his-luck superhero who returns home to live with his parents after something happens. This is definitely an Image Comics series — it’s set in that very loose shared universe where Youngblood and Spawn and Savage Dragon exist, with references to Cyberforce, Malebolgia and Brigade. Crossjack and the team he was on, Third Gen, are new creations, but the creators have a lot of fun suggesting they were around during the early Image heyday, and the comic is even split into two stories — one about Crossjack’s current dilemma, and one very 1990s Image story about the team (which has members like Cutting Edge, Softkore and Neon who feel like they came right out of a Liefeld comic).
We don’t know yet what exactly happened to Crossjack, just that he screwed up royally and was fired by the team. Whatever he did was so bad that even when an old enemy shows up at Crossjack’s local bar and the former shield-wielding takes him down, his old team shows up to remind him that he can no longer use a shield in battle, per his contract termination. (“It was a garbage can lid,” he says in his defense). The issue ends with a murder and a mystery, and oh yeah, it’s all a lot of fun. It’s like taking the best of Seeley’s work on Revival and his way too short run on the Bloodstrike reboot, along with all the intrigue Fleecs brought to Stray Dogs, and packaging it into something that serves as a tribute to that era of comics while transforming it into something new. I also like how both creators get to use their artistic chops to the best advantage here, with Fleecs drawing the present-day, more noir scenes while Seeley tackles the Third Gen flashback story.
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