If you thought to yourself "I loved Turbo Teen as a kid and the only thing missing is a fancy yacht", then this is the book for you. I have no idea what to make of this graphic novel. It is at times hilarious and at times stupid and mostly hilariously stupid, in sometimes the best and sometimes the worst senses of that phrase. Is all this hinting about dark secrets setting it up for a sequel or just part of the joke? Probably both. Usually I love hilarious nonsequiters, and what fits the bill more snugly than a set of comics about a teenage boy who can turn into a boat? There were things I liked about this: the utter go-for-it mentality of pushing the premise to its illogical extremes (if water gets in Teen Boat's ear, for example, he automatically turns into a boat without being able to help it, which strangely happens to him a lot), the Archie-esque episodic nature of the comics, the fact that everyone just accepts that Teen Boat can turn into a boat without any hint that it's very very odd. But, if I'm going to be honest, I was hoping for Axe Cop here--the kind of humor that makes no sense and yet is so unexpectedly and creatively hilarious that it makes you feel like your own imagination is a malnourished peanut. Teen Boat isn't even quite good enough to be a one-episode sidekick for Axe Cop.
What do You think about Teen Boat! (2012)?
There are a few attempts at humor that work, but mostly it's just odd.
—bri
