Flaming Carrot: Fortune Favors the Bold
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (867 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1569713332 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 117 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Eccentric Humor for Twisted Americans I picked this up in a comic book shop whilst on a shopping trip to buy food for my pet snake, Zoe. Ordinarily, I'd by wary of entering such an establishment for fear of the irrepairable damage to my reputation. This comic, however, has made such a gamble not only worthw. Mike Morrell said Zany Postmodern Pop Weirdness. If you like different things, explore the skewed vision of one of America's post-underground comics pioneers. This collected volume recaptures Bob Burden's hard-to-find art and story of the 80s, along with completely new material. At once surreal yet wholly earthy and r
Flaming Carrot leads a rebellion of the Trekkies and Dr. Whovians that were duped into helping the spacemen build their beachhead here on Earth. Summer nights, water-balloon fights, young girls in ragged cutoffs, a good band tonight on Carnival Island, and a walk along the great midway starts out this wild story of an impending alien invasion during Flaming Carrot`s summer vacation in Smallville. Plus, an all-new Flaming Carrot text story!
Just what would possess a man to wear a giant carrot mask with a controllable flame on top and walk through the city streets fighting crime? Don't expect an answer to that question; instead, expect a lot of strange laughs in Bob Burden's Dada comics masterpiece, The Flaming Carrot. You'll see the return of the "dead dog who leaped up and flew around the room." And you'll watch how Flaming Carrot fights off a group of aliens with no feet, with the trusty help of his bubble pipe. You'll meet the Carrot's littlest friend ever (a potato bug). Years before he created the Mystery Men, Burden was chronicling the tales of the original second-string, blue-collar hero. --Jim Pascoe. The stories in this fourth collection of Carrot tales show off the strength of Burden's wacky, nonsensical storytelling, without losing any of the favor of his reverence for the inane