God Hates Astronauts is an American science fiction/comedy comic book series written and illustrated by Ryan Browne.

[5] In September 2014, Image Comics relaunched God Hates Astronauts as a continuing monthly series, beginning with the second story arc, "A Star Is Born".

In order to prevent farmers from launching homemade rockets into space, NASA, under the directorship of Sir Hippothesis (a human-hippopotamus hybrid), has established the superhero group the Power Persons Five: led by Dr.

Professor, a humanoid rhinoceros, with team members Star Fighter, his wife Starrior, The Impossible, The Anti-Mugger, and Craymok.

There, Starrior meets and later begins an affair with Texas Tom, a cowboy haunted by the ghostly cow head Blue Grass.

They recruit Gnarled Winslow (an ex-Chicago cop), Reed Spacer, and Crazy Train to aid in the attack.

In a recess from the ensuing trial, it is revealed that The Anti-Mugger has a new, mutated third arm, and Starrior is pregnant with Star Grass' daughter.

As King Tiger Eating a Cheeseburger's forces finally reach Earth, Starlina, on a sugar high, loses control of her powers and kills Star Grass.

[6] Issues 2–5 of the Image Comics run contain fake one-page advertisements titled "Goofin' With Gnarled", art by Brad Mcginty and Jordan Boyd.

[6] The first trade edition—which collects the three webcomic issues—includes 18 two-page origin stories,[3] each written by Ryan Browne and drawn by a different guest artist: The Image series holds an average score of 8.3 out of 10 at the review aggregator website Comic Book Roundup.

[7] ComicsAlliance stated that "other than being held together with two staples and having the words in more or less the right order, [God Hates Astronauts is] weird in every way, with something freshly bizarre on every single page," and compared it to the work of "the Farrelly Brothers in their prime", but emphasized that in addition to "how over-the-top goofy it is", the comic's success is also the result of "a level of craftsmanship (...) that's almost impossible to ignore.

"[8] Comic Book Resources lauded it as "absolutely crazy in the best ways possible", with writing that was "reminiscent of the works of Pendleton Ward or David Lynch.

[10] Beer Hates Astronauts has been very well received, currently holding a 98 rating on review aggregator sites Beeradvocate and ratebeer.