The Flintstones Vol. 2: Bedrock Bedlam

Was a gift for my husband, he loves it.

It's a really good series. I recommend reading it

I don't know if this counts as being biased but I feel so emotionally, mentally, and spiritually fulfilled by properly-handled satire that I lived on every page of this graphic novel volume. This "dark social commentary", as other reviewers have called it, feels both validating and motivating. The first volume in this series is my favorite read of this year, and this volume followed that one strongly.

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The creative team were just laying the groundwork in the first six issues. The final issues of this mini-series, reprinted here, #7-#12, have real satirical bite, which somehow is even funnier because it is with the old animated series characters. The book takes unmerciful aim at the USA today: "It's not that the leisure class is lazy They just feel they're too important to do the boring work society actually needs. They feel driven to recreate the world as a monument to themselves, whatever the cost to the rest of us." The memorable Gazoo, while doing an alien report on life on Earth, says: "It's when you give people what they don't really want that they can never get enough of it." Technology, seemingly leading the world, gains this comment: "With any new technology, the question in the back of everyone's mind is, 'Can I have sex with it or use it to kill people?" This mini-series and has been called the year's best comic by more than one. To see what the writer, Mark Russell, is up to now, pick up the shocking "Snagglepuss Chronicles" #5, in which the one-and-only Huckleberry Hound commits suicide. This is not a spoiler - it's on the cover.

Loved it, even better than Vol.1

so great

I have trouble finding the words to express how much I LOVE The Flintstones reboot comics. “Bedrock Bedlam” is an even stronger follow-up to the first volume. The art is beautiful and the satire is biting. They definitely are not the Flintstones of your childhood (or the childhood of your parents).

This unbiased review is based upon a complimentary copy provided by the publisher.