Description: "Notley's syndicated Bob the Angry Flower exemplifies the new science-fiction comics. Instead of rocketing around the galaxies, it generally stays on terra firma and lets the aliens come to it. It features robots, especially the lugubrious author's alter-ego, Lovebot, and, getting brainy for a change, quantum phenomena, as when Bob, instead of just chopping a spunky crippled kid' up with an ax, whacks him with a 'quantum waveform decollapser' that renders the annoying child into innumerable, identical, possible spunky crippled kids. Trenchant references are made to highbrow fantasy (Kafka) and SF ( Brave New World ), but Notley is obviously most inspired by 1950s sci-fi' flickers and their progeny of giant reptile/bug/thing attack yarns (though the big critter that most excites him is the already-big-enough bear; see the long, wordless story in the center of the book, Pure Action'). And he's incensed by the Bush administration. Bob is pretty transparently another Notley alter ego--the main one--yet he also seems an ambulatory bud from The Little Shop of Horrors 's Audrey. Energetically drawn, top-drawer madness. " -- Booklist "I just laugh my butt off every time I see Bob having one of his hissy fits. And who else describes what we live with now so succinctly--Cheney's tiny Republican heart, tight with hate'? Bob is me and Bob is you." --Donna Barr, author of Desert Peach and Stinz "The long-awaited Dog Killer (Tachyon) is a whole new chance to revel in Notley's fevered, nihilistic madness." -- The Onion How I pity those English monolinguists who will only know Bob the Angry Flower as a hysterically funny force of chaos. Those who read Bob in its original Klingon know it to be a keen, insightful look into the humorous nuances behind today's headlines." --Phil Foglio, co-author of Girl Genius " Dog Killer is rife with wry political commentary and subversive play, but it's also an appealing work of dark surrealism. . . . It's courageous alternative art. Sounds a lot like what I enjoy about horror fiction...." --Michael Arnzen, The Goreletter "" Bob the Angry Flower will rock your world." --Keith Knight, author of The K Chronicles "It's amazingly funny, totally offbeat, and like nothing else I've ever read." -- iComics

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