The Scrounge Wuz Here

(Candle Light, 2004)
™ and © Will Grant

Grant’s smart enough to realize that bathroom humor isn’t always enough reason to buy a comic book, but instead of trying to legitimize things by creating a story around it, he simply serves it up in a more concentrated dose. After all, if a shot of whiskey is good, a bottle must be better; except, of course, for those who don’t like whiskey.

Every page is crammed with enough nose–picking, vomit–spewing “humor” to gag even the most juvenile minds. Highly detailed panels with word balloons crammed with tiny lettering don’t help. After 20 pages or so, the stench is pretty overpowering; even the most die–hard fans of low–brow jokes will have to open a window after a while.

It’s not quite the steaming pile of gross–outs like those found in books like Johnny Ryan’s Angry Youth Comix, but the sheer magnitude of excrement-covered subject matter gives Ryan’s book some solid competition. What the industry doesn’t need are creators trying to out-gross each other. This one should be flushed.

— Jim Johnson

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