Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever, Issue #1 is a title I hastily picked out. I was buying a new long box for $6.99 at Comickaze in San Diego. They charge a dollar for all credit card purchases under $10, so I needed to spend another $3.01 to keep from spending an extra $1.00. Make sense? I couldn't find Hadrian's Wall, Issue #1, and then I saw some independent comics and grabbed the cheapest one. Henry & Glenn is kind of like Archie Comics, but with two gothy gay guys who look surprisingly like Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig. They live together, eat Lemmy-O's Cereal, and get into adventures.
In fact, there are a number of references to music from the 1980s. Their neighbors, John and Daryl, a pair of Satanists who look like John Hall and Daryl Oats, complain about Glenn's obsession with a pile of bricks in Henry and Glenn's front yard in the first of the three stories. The series has gone on and on for some time. This is actually the second issue, the first being Henry & Glen Forever. Rob Halford has even done an intro to one of the comics.
Henry Rollins is aware of the comic, and he's even signed a few copies. He takes a "live and let live" philosophy, as anyone who's followed his career knows. I saw his band in concert in 1991 or 1992, and he put on a hell of a show in the pouring rain. He says Danzig wouldn't be too keen on it, and I have to agree. I think most people wouldn't like it if some jerk wrote a comic about them.
Well, great. I didn't really need another title to get obsessed with, but Henry & Glenn cracks me up. I swear, these tiny comics will be the economic death of me. I have a whole bag of Retrofit comics, and just yesterday, I picked up Issue #2 and Issue #3 of Titan, a mini-comic published by Study Group. While some Image comics like The Humans (also drawn by Tom Neely) capture the feel of truly independent comics, there's nothing like an underground sensation such as Henry & Glenn.
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