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Wonder Wart-hog and the nurds of November : Gilbert Shelton's exciting cartoon novel of election-year politics, international nuclear terror, ... pestilence, famine, economic collapse and ...

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What was once hard to believe in a comic book is now every day reality for america, which begs the question are we living in the real world? or is it just an illusion which this collection of Wonderwarthog comics foretold?

These stories are excellent very funny, and the art is some of Gil's best.
A must read for any political critics out there.

The Wart-Hog has been edged out by his more famous slacker siblings the Freak Brothers and it's a crying shame. Seriously, he edges out Mr Natural as my all-time favourite comic character - or is that tragic? [Third comes Jim Meddick's Monty - but he's only in cyberspace.]

I must also put in a plug here for the wondrous but possibly untranslatable Rat-Man (like the Wart-Hog he affects a hyphen) turned out monthly by the indefatigable Leo Ortolani and available at any news-stand in Italy; take one back for someone you love and have them translate it for you! All three (that rogue Mr N aside) are dealing with failure, something we all have difficulty in confronting, either in life or in books (how many books are there titled Know your Limitations, for instance, yet that is the oldest wisdom) and the humour lies in their state of denial. Wart-Hog is the most heroic, Monty the most introverted - and Rat-Man? he is perhaps the absurd dreamer in all of us, battered but insouciant. (As for Mr N, he's in heaven, pulling faces.)