Title: Hat Trick
Publisher Name: Outlaw Entertainment
Writer: Jason M. Burns
Art: Armando M. Zanker
7.99, 112 pages, Color

Safety Content Label: A - Appropriate for age 9 and up.

Publishers Blurb:
Cover A Artist: Scott Schomburg

Description: Hat Trick follows the adventures of Ray, a would-be magician who is introduced to a world of magic through his famous uncle's top hat. With the help of a few of the world's inhabitants, including a six-foot tall talking rabbit named Poof, Ray must uncover his true potential and defeat the evil that is enslaving the world.

Reviewer Comments:
Ok, I enjoyed Outlaw's PRAETORIAN, and I'm looking forward to WE THE PEOPLE, but iwas totally taken by surprise and fell in love with HAT TRICK!

This book is great! It's one of those rare gems of an ALL AGES book that ACTUALLY means ALL AGES. You know, like old LOONEY TUNES, where the little kids laugh on one level, the older kids laugh on another level, and the adults are laughing on a third level entirely their own? Yeah, this is THAT kind of good!

The plot is something we've heard before, Young guy inherits item from deceased estranged relative, item has magic powers, guy gets in over his head. What Jason Burns DOES with that plot is fresh and fun. Ray, our young inheritor, gets his Uncle, KALPINO THE MAGNIFICENT's, magician's hat. Ray then gets sucked into the hat, ending up in the MAGICVERSE, where Kalpino isn't dead, but has become a crazed dictator. Ray is joined by the resistance, who believe he is the chosen one who can defeat Kalpino. We Meat King Heart, the actual King of Hearts from a magician's deck of cards; Carla, the magician's assistant, who has been sawed in half only and just wants to put back together; and Poof, a giant white rabbit who is part Obi Wan Kenobi, part giant white rabbit.
Well, really, ya can't beat that.

The story is fun, funny, and well paced. I LOVED and so did my three year old. It's nice to have a comic I can read with her that doesn't lose her or bore me.

Armando Zanker's artwork is incredible. Clean, fluid, and almost animated in style, it suits the book and is fun to look at. In fact, this is one of those special cases where the interior completely outshines the cover art. Not that Scott Schomburg's cover is bad, it's just that Zanker's artwork is really that good. That's why I included an interior panel from their website.

Want to read a fantastic 112 page comic for only $7.99? One that's perfectly square bound, like a miniature TPB?

Go pick up HAT TRICK. You won't be dissapointed.