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Bighead

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Thrill as Bighead battles such superfoes as Heartbroke, Crabby (also known as "Crabby"!), Temptationtress, a couple of adorable little space monkeys who come in peace, and Girl-Hair ("his grooviest nemesis yet"!)

I love love love Jeffrey Brown's work. Bighead is even more of a delight if you've read his autobiographical stuff, Clumsy, Unlikely, etc... though as the mother of a six-year-old Big Head fan, I can vouch that it resonates even if you're too little to get your hands on anything else in his copious, and sexually explicit ouevre. (The clothes stay on in Bighead, and the language is solidly G-rated, but I could imagine some adolescent males locking themselves in the bathroom for some quality time with a dog-eared Tempationtress page...)

Man, I don't even LIKE superhero comics (except one by James Kochalka, which is listed, not quite correctly, on Amazon as Superf*ckers), but any North American born after, say, 1940 will have enough knowledge of standard superheroic speech and situations to relish this pitch-perfect parody.

It's even got a tiny rendering of Bighead as a tiny Tiger Beat-style hunk.

Perfection.