A collection of single panel comic strips, Henry and Glenn Forever, introduces us to two of the First Wave Punk Rock’s most masculine frontmen, Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig, as a Queer couple living together in anti-Prop 8 bliss.

Written and drawn by Igloo Tornado, a Los Angeles based comic writing collective known for it’s ruthless image slaying, Henry and Glenn Forever is as much a tribute to the two singers as it is to the comic strip format and its evolution as an art form.

A ruthless stylistic mash-up of The Family Circus and it’s straight- White-nuclear family propaganda; Get Your War On’s anti-war narrative through repeated panel images and sarcastic dialogue; and the melodrama from Pulp Romance comics from the 50s and 60s, Henry & Glenn Forever, lampoons each singer’s on-and-off-stage personalities, well known reading and listening habits, diary writing, and strides for celebrity and relevancy.

By assigning feminine and masculine roles in this fictional Queer relationship makes one who is familiar with both singers, and queer pop culture iconography, laugh out loud when the “happy couple” is shown deciding what to wear to a Halloween party or in how they decide to reconcile the ritualistic satanic tendencies of their blue-eyed-soul neighbours with the disappearance of the family dog.

Also up for criticism here is the west’s hetero-dominant society and it’s preconceptions that Queer relationships also embody traditional straight roles. These roles are up for constant analysis in Henry & Glenn Forever because of who the characters are in reality. Also, a dominant breadwinner vs. sensitive shut-in archetype battle is in full swing in these pages. We see each singer’s creative pursuits destined to undermine their love for one another.

Henry & Glenn Forever is a hilarious deconstruction of traditional “hero worship” that exists in the Punk community and strong reminder about the need for healthy communication in relationships. It also creatively exposes many of the hurtful stereotypes and legal mandates employed in our society and joyfully destroys them.