Basically, you’re telling them that if they use their imagination and creativity, maybe some day they can get a comic book published like Malachai did.ħ. It’s Inspiring for Kids: Parents could do no worse than to hand their kids a copy of this book. But in an old Warner Brothers cartoon way, not in a Saw 3D way.Ħ. I mean, don’t get us wrong: it’s violent.
Even with an axe present, the violence, as drawn by Ethan Nicolle, is no worse than you would see in a cartoon. Fun For the Whole Family: Because the strip is written by a five-year-old, it’s all pretty good, clean fun. And there are some ridiculous ones… We’re partial to Axe Cop’s answer to, “What do you do with all the heads you chop off?” in particular: they get ground into dust, and then used to make to make head plants for people who want to have double heads. The better the question (i.e., the more ridiculous), the better the strip. Axe Cop Is Thoughtful: A recurring feature on the website is, “Ask Axe Cop,” and the trade will collect some of the best of those strips. Reading all this in trade form will help with the heady continuity, rather than waiting for the weekly episodes online.
Flute Cop is Now Uni-Avocado Soldier: Axe Cop’s brother, Flute Cop, was turned into a dinosaur soldier, then an avocado soldier, and then given a unicorn’s horn, so now he’s Uni-avocado Soldier. The whole thing makes a bizarre kind of sense, the sort of logic you can only get from hearing a five-year-old tell a story.ģ. He teams up with a super smart baby with a unicorn horn named Uni-Baby, and other heroes and villains, like Leaf Man, Baby Man, Flute Cop and more. It’s About An Axe Cop: In case you couldn’t guess from the title, the comic is about a cop who chops things with his axe. To this day, every bit of Axe Cop is written by Malachai (or at least, dictated and sorted out into comprehensible form by Ethan).Ģ. Malachai was “playing Axe Cop,” Ethan decided to write down the story verbatim, and illustrate it, and history was born. Axe Cop was created by 5-year-old Malachai Nicolle, when his 29-year-old comic book artist/writer brother Ethan was home for Christmas. Here’s ten reasons you need to correct your mistake, and pick up Axe Cop Volume 1 this week:ġ. If you’ve never read Axe Cop (handily available at ), you’ve been missing out on one of the most original and hilarious comics of… Well, ever. The book is great because it is created by the mind of a boy who is now eight years old.This Wednesday, Dark Horse releases online sensation Axe Cop in trade paperback form, and we at MTV Geek couldn’t be more excited. Malachai Nicolle, the author, started writing the stories when he was five years old with the help of his big brother, who was 29. They would like when Axe Cop answers questions in the book. Teenagers would like this book, and even ten-year-olds that would understand. Chapter 2 is even longer, and the rest of the stories are really great even though they don’t always make sense. During an adventure hunting dinosaurs, Flute Cop became Dinosaur Soldier. He met Flute Cop in his office, and Flute Cop signed up to be a member of his team. Axe Cop was a regular police officer that picked up an axe that he was walking by. The stories are numbered 1-8, and then there are new comics on the Axe Cop website. Axe Cop is an adult superhero that fights crime and kills bad guys.