The site crashed a few times over the weekend, so now Axe Cop and friends mete out their swift, decapitory justice on a designated server. Word started to spread last Thursday, it spread all over Twitter. An Axe Cop website soon followed, complete with fancy navigation, a cast of characters, and more. That one-page comic became two, and three, and four, which Ethan promptly posted to his blog and Facebook page. The story that followed became more and more brilliant, until I couldn't contain myself and I had to draw the whole thing into a one-page comic. I told him I would rather be Axe Cop than Flute Cop, and he seemed just fine with being Flute Cop. so he brought me a toy flute (actually a recorder). Malachai was running around with his toy fireman axe and said he was playing "Axe Cop." He asked me to play with him, and I asked what my weapon was. Ethan is the creator of the gleefully weird (and Eisner-award nominated) humor comic Chumble Spuzz, published by SLG.Īll heroes need an origin story, of course. The chief reason Axe Cop's fame extends beyond crayon drawings magnetized to the Nicolle family's refrigerator door, however, has to do with Malachai's older brother, Ethan Nicolle. Five-year-old Malachai Nicolle, to be exact. The unlikely hero the world knows as Axe Cop is the brainchild of a brainy child.
(Who followed up yesterday with an interview.) EW.com linked to him, as did several comics bloggers, including Laura Hudson at Comics Alliance. Last Thursday, links to the heart-stirring, head-chopping adventures of Axe Cop and his sidekick, Avocado Soldier (about whom more in a bit) started popping up in Twitter feeds across the nation. Axe Cop may be the greatest comic you'll ever see based on the musings of a kindergartener.īy now, many of you will have already met Axe Cop, the impressively mustachioed officer of the law who wields his trusty fire-axe to protect and serve.
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