The Unexpurgated Tale of Lordie Jones

    (Bumblenut, 2005)
™ and © 2005 Marc Ngui

This comic has a real nice feel to it, by which I mean the texture of the book before you even open the cover. Inside, some smooth, sepia art with cross-hatching that doesn’t hurt to look at retells “an obscure Caribbean folktale” about a boy who tries to cheat the Tooth Fairy and gets a pig growing in his fanny for his efforts. This is a fun little tale, and save for the swearing and terrifying Tooth Fairy, could be a long-lost Roald Dahl tale. Artist Marc Ngui might want to consider redrawing a few pages and passing this one around the children’s market in a clean version, but he doesn’t need to do anything to improve the version we see here.

— Brendan McGinley
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