Rusty McDoodle isn’t having the best week. His web clients aren’t paying, his girlfriend left him and his social skills have deteriorated from freelancing in a vacuum. His best friend Stan works in online porn, toiling away in a virtual sweat-shop lorded over by a maniacal boss and his dog-like cronies. When Stan’s latest project goes up flames late one night, he asks Rusty to join the company and help him uncover the truth behind his Kafkaesque employer.
These two web-lackeys soon discover a series of events have been set in motion so bizarre, that their world is engulfed by epic chaos. With the help of an alcoholic psychic and his fishing buddy, they’re roped into a nightmarish struggle with bloodthirsty demons and money-mongering yes-men. Can they keep their jobs and sanity intact when they can’t trust anyone and there’s an axe lurking behind every back?
Chicken Outfit is a sci-fi / horror comic for future-shocked times. It chronicles corporate greed, maniacal butchers, undead biker-chicks, drunken psychic shaman, pretentious aliens and a couple of under-paid slobs who find themselves in the most hellish situation of their lives.
ISSUE ONE
PRINT & DIGITAL DOWNLOAD
MAY 2013
(Comic NOT actual size.)
About the Creators
Joe Deagnon (Artist & Co-Writer) has previously published five issues of Paranoid Tales of Neurosis. Called “Lowbrow and Entertaining”, “”Hyper-Fun and Sickly Twisted” and “Bizarre and Wonderful”, his work has been described as a combination of Harvey Pekar meets Ralph Steadman and dubbed “A Mad Magazine for the 90s” by drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs. Herschell Gordon Lewis commented on his humor as “Sick and vicious, just like mine.” He also was a regular contributor to the music weekly Exclaim and Film Threat magazine. Working in the media industry for almost 20 years now, he’s getting sick and tired of dealing with the insanity of this earth-bound reality and has made great leaps in science and logic by phase-shifting between this world and an imaginary dimension of his own design.
A self-proclaimed success story in the tradition of Tom Vu, Kirby Stasyna (Co-Writer) is not living the luxurious life he is seen enjoying on TV. Relying only on street smarts and empty beer bottles, much of Kirby’s time that should be spent working on Chicken Outfit projects is wasted looking for jobs, feeding birds, volunteering at museums, and playing around with vintage gizmos and obsolete electronics. A proven creative and conceptual specialist, Kirby has yet to create or conceive personal success, financial freedom, or anything of any worth or value that isn’t owned by some other company. Kirby’s artistic sense has been so toned down by ex-employers, that he can only see in 2-bit color without the use of special glasses.