Blubber [Hardcover]

The great Gilbert Hernandez's unfettered Id unleashed! Absurd, explicit, and profanely funny, Hernandez is one of the great craftsmen of modern comics. ... Here, [he] offers a menagerie of weird invented monsters  like the Pollum, the Junipero Molestat, the mythical Forest Nimmy  engaged in unspeakable and strange acts. Open-minded adult audiences might thrill to watch Hernandez (one of the comic book medium's most revered storytellers) allow his imagination to run wild, without restrictions. Plot, as can be the case in Gilbert Hernandez's more perverse work, is optional here: your eyes are immediately drawn to whatever extreme depiction of sexual deviancy is filling up the page. Hernandez has become the medium's David Lynch or Guy Maddin, rolling his personal obsessions and freewheeling abstractions into stories that present as pulp, then take some very weird turns. Every writer should be so lucky to have the imaginative chops that Hernandez shows.