Kurt Busiek: Not since American Flagg! has a comics creator had this much fun with politics, factionalism, and national decay. But Jones and Ha go further, playing games with mythic identity and belief along with their ideological and governmental satire -- and they wrap it all up in a Big American Myth, a Paul Bunyan or John Henry for the twentieth century, a larger-than-life creature of Detroit steel and endless highways. Oktane is smart, rude, subversive, and fun. Take it out for a spin and open it up.
Mark Waid: Kerouac with fight scenes! How brave! I like Oktane a lot. Thanks for understanding the difference between dropping subtle hints that (Oktane) has an interesting past, and dropping cryptic anvils that make me DISinterested because they're so manipulative. I want to see more.
Mark Wheatley: With Gerry Jones telling the story, it's no surprise that Oktane presents a many-layered and well-thought-out future world. But the real entertainment is in the dead-on humor to be found in the characters, concepts, and world-class dialogue. Oktane proves that there's no time like the present to take a few well-aimed pot shots at the future.
Mark Badger: Cool superhero comic ya got here in Oktane: obscure references to all these neat little bits of stuff floating around in the mind of Gerry. Of course, having seen Gerry's drawings, it's pretty obvious there is also a huge pile of weird stuff floating in Gene Ha's mind. But I've never met him, so I can't tell about him. He sure does draw neat, though.
Sam Hamm: Kudos to Messrs. "Jones" and "Ha," if those are their names, on the publication of Oktane, the most rigorously imaged and baroquely amusing funnybook since American Flagg!.Oktane`s portrait of an ethnically Balkanized near-future America -- a kind of anti-melting pot brimming over with special-interest groups who share no common social agenda beyond rabid venality and an abiding love of car culture -- is so full of good, ruthless, nasty fun that it's got me rethinking my knee-jerk liberal dread of the coming apocalypse.