A Standout In The Landscape Of Action-Adventure Greats: Reviewing ‘Klik Klik Boom’ #2

Welcome to the table,

When I was a kid, MacGyver was always a favorite of mine. Something about a dude with a handful of stuff from the junk drawer being able to put together a collection of traps in a “bad guy” infested warehouse was just so fascinating to me. The concept of trap building took hold and by the time I saw Home Alone, I was absolutely in love with the concept of preparing your living space to rebuke countless invaders with makeshift items that could cause no end of damage to anything from a cybernetic superspy to a ninja death assassin.

Traps are still cool!

Klik Klik Boom #2 is a non-stop action-packed romp stuffed with charming chaos characters, treacherously twisted traps, and an adorable baby bunny named Beatrix!

This book has one of my favorite lines of dialog in any comic I have ever read and I can’t share it with you because it is not in the approved art to showcase. Trust me though, when you get to the flashback in the woods there is a line that had me doubled over with joy. 

On top of this epic line, this book remains fun as hell. Written by the talented Doug Wagner with brilliant art by Doug Dabbs and spellbinding colors by Matt Wilson, Klik Klik Boom #2 starts at breakneck speed and does not let up from cover to cover. I absolutely love this book.

Sprout, our non-verbal death dealer, and Serena, her kidnapped sorta friend,  are on the run from some very dangerous gun-toting goons who work for a powerful shadow organization that killed Sprout’s grandfather. The buddy vibe between Sprout and Serene is some of the best chemistry in comics and the fact the creative team is able to pull this off with a one-sided conversation is a testament to their storytelling skill.

The book does a great job of jumping back and forth between flashbacks of Sprout with her grandfather and current-day New York where she and Serena and the newly introduced bunny Beatrix are being hunted for the knowledge that Sprout has. What I adore about this book, and there is a lot to adore, is that it is fun.

It’s got a plot that could very easily be trope-filled or cut-and-paste from the library of gun-toting adventure films and comics that are out there, but somehow this all feels so fresh and new. The moves are there but everything is bright and fun and dazzling in the best possible ways and the book just feels good from start to finish.

If you are a fan of action films like John Wick or samurai flicks like Zatoichi then you may want to give this a go. It’s nothing like them and at the same time could hold its own in the landscape of action-adventure greats.

Until next time, Beatrix is such a great name for a bunny and the colors on this book are nothing short of fantastic!