Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Writer: Shaun Simon
Artist: Tyler Jenkins
Editor: Sierra Hahn
Release date: NOW!
Price: $3.99

Now this is weird but in a good, readable way. The central theme of Neverboy concerns the loss of imagination to the point where the Ministry of Imagination has to dish out fantasies to all those who can not conjure fantasies up for themselves.

The bad guy is an artist Julian Drag and he kidnaps fantasy creatures and paints them for a living. Neverboy is a divorced dad and career junkie, whose drug taking blocks out anything that isn’t real. However, Neverboy can enter the imaginary world and. . . oh, look, just buy the Never Boy #4 because there is no comprehensible way to explain all this.

The irony of it though, is Neverboy is the most imaginative comic book you will read this month. Or any month come to that. It’s subtle and complex and evokes memories of Steve Gerber and Jim Steranko in their spaced-out heyday and makes you realise just what comic books were invented for.

Reviewer: Gary Orchard
Reviews Editor: Steve Hooker