Ted McKeever! What a delight after the suffering of the last 2 issues. We last saw Ted doing his thing in Ultimate Spider-Man Team-Up, and this time he writes as well as draws. I don’t know whose idea it was for him to work on Typeface, but that is an inspired choice. With McKeever’s penchant for really weird and offbeat characters, there’s no better choice. Who would’ve guessed anyone would see Typey again after PPSM 24, but believe it or not, he’s in 8 more comics after this one. I believe we’ll be seeing none of them on the blog, tho. As ever, Steve Buccelatto is on colors.
While the grammar guy is not quite thrilled with Typeface’s choice of verbiage, he has heard of him, and is thrilled to meet him. Typey, for his part, doesn’t really want to know the guy, and scampers off. The grammar guy decides this is a call to action for him. Soon, he is in Tess’s Surplus, talking to himself nonstop as he tries to come up with a superhero costume and name.
Only McKeever could look at Typeface and go, “Eh, I can do quirkier.” So wacky. It is, after all, Ted McKeever’s Mondo which gave the world this set of panels, widely distributed on the internet without explanation:
Cannot recommend Mondo enough. A guy gets superpowers from a chicken plant with extremely lax safety and sanitation, and that’s not nearly as weird as it gets. We next find Typeface once again accosting the Penny Ante Gang, just after they wonder who that guy who attacked them was (“Sesame Street Pete?”), but then Spellcheck hops in, telling Typeface they can become a team and rid the world of malapropisms.
That little kid then spots Spidey-Man leaping above them, but it’s actually Spellcheck, who crashes into a telephone pole and slides down to street level in Looney Tunes fashion.
But Spellcheck once again gets in Typeface’s way, letting the bad guy escape.
That was way more fun than the last few. And look, Spider-Man! With dialogue, even! He’s been such a minimal presence in this title it’s started to feel outside the mandate of the blog, but here he briefly is. Maybe he’ll get more face time next issue.