...well, that's a superb synopsis for this story!
Doctors Scratch and Snyff create a sentient (and lethal) virus, which escapes from their lab to a nearby fast-food franchise!
(Talk about your welcoming environments...)
Meanwhile, banished from his native Jejune Realm (home to the minor deities that oversee the mundane events that define our day-to-day life) Vext ends up on Earth, where his almost total lack of knowledge and knack for causing chaos leads to him constantly being both the cause and victim of accidents, like this one...
So Vext saves the world...without realizing it!
Quite frankly, I'd heard of, but never read, this series.
Now that I've read this issue, I'm sorry I missed it!
Once this pandemic is over, I'll make this the ongoing
Monday Madness feature!
Written and laid-out by Keith Giffen, penciled by Mike McKone, and inked by Mark McKenna, this never-reprinted story from
DC's Vext #3 (1999) was a showcase for the snarky, in-joke-infused humor Giffen is notorious for!
Despite being incorporated into the mainstream DC universe from his first issue (which guest-starred Superman), and promoted in the DCU Heroes Secret Files and Origins one-shot, the book didn't sell well despite writer-artist Giffen's popularity with the comics audience!
This 6-issue mini-series was one of the few to not be reprinted as a trade paperback!
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(which, despite the "Volume 1" designation has the entire Giffen run, including annuals and spin-offs!)
