I can't say the cooking subplot pulled me in, either. Add in a 'tries to hard to be plain jane every girl" former flame and 'tries too hard to be quirky' side characters and you get the idea of what to expect. Instead of giving us interesting but flawed characters, we get one dimensional cliches: uber confident, bored, and perpetually insouciant main character and his sex obsessed bud (the inter-species sex jokes should have been funny, but they just weren't). The artwork is fairly busy - think Sergio Arragone's Mad Magazine work and you'll get the idea. He was once the proclaimed master but turned his back on that world. Then Boys ends up on the cooking planet, meeting up with Boyo's old flame again, and being sucked back into the world of culinary art. Story: Johnny Boyo, a space trucker, and his coworker/undersexed buddy (a situation that could have been funny but really wasn't) are traveling along an annoying rather than dangerous galaxy, dealing with occasional blips such as sucky space ninjas. Silly names, slacker leads, generic sci fi, and a noticeable lack of witty bon mots ensured this didn't live up to the promise of the cover or art.
But I struggled through most of this purportedly unique title, unsure why I should invest in the characters, story, or plot. Or it can be very hip, as with Scott Pilgrim. Sometimes, zaniness can be endearing, as with Tank Girl.
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