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Scrublands

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Joe Daly manages to squeeze several different kinds of work into this volume. Some are slices of real life in South Africa (remarkably similar in style and character to life in Southern California, go figure), some are silly journeys that start out with something that could happen, and move on into the fantastical. Some just start fantastical and never stop getting weirder. Well worth the purchase for the story of Dagga Man alone.

I like Joe Daly's work but "Scrublands" is probably his weakest book. It contains very short strips about sexually shaped sculptures or sexually shaped vegetables, some weird stoner humour, and some avant-garde nonsense. Most of the characters look disturbing and monstrous-like as if they were characters from an old MAD magazine strip. The book contains few strips worth remembering though his distinctive drawing style becomes quite likeable after a while, and I can highly recommend his other books, "Red Monkey Double Happiness" (a kind of South African stoner Tintin adventure, very fun read with lots of excellent artwork, this time in colour), and the "Dungeon Quest" series which is a parody of the old board game "Dungeons and Dragons" in comic book form. "Scrublands" is a weak introduction to this great comic book artist and would only appeal to fans of the previous books (like me) looking for more of the same - and not finding it here.

Man! Why has no one reviewed this yet!? It's GREAT! It's different than you're basic underground comic or graphic novel and it's time people found out about his guy! Please make more Joe Daly!! Buy this book.