So here's a reprint collection from Slave Labor Graphics that grabs the nads of the original Marvel Comics run. This volume features the first four issues of Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book along with the Bogus Journey adaptation.

The characters look vaguely like their movie counterparts of Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin et al. Probably for the best as it is rather madcap lunacy on air. At first it would read like an avalance of "dude," "excellent" and out of nowhere air guitar solos. Get to the end of the little book and it's like just the right amount. Not too much, not too little, just Wyld Stallyns right.

Enthusiastic jokes and all don't rise above the high brow and spend it in the middle. The compact size -- talking digest here -- make reading the panels close to the spine a worrying effort. Luckily, there are no centre crash splash pages to warrant that much of a split.

On occasion, lines suffer from fraying, disconnected on the transfer from archival prints with what might have been lifted direct off the original comics themselves. The clarity in the inked pages still hold up well despite the fade away here and there. On the whole it's just shy of being a most triumphant effort, though it totally is in keeping with the spirit of the two movies and their characters.