Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto
To Sum: Dark and twisted humor, front and center. Strips from an on-line comic strip (web comic) are collected. Despite the candy colored cover and insides, really, heed the warning on the cover page of "For Mature Audiences".
What to watch out for: It's hilarious, and offensive, in the best possible way. There are lots of sexually cartoony images and innuendos (I liked the Hammer Man coming home to find a screw in his wife - who is a board in a bikini. The next scene is Hammer Man fighting with his neighbor Screwdriver Man.) There's plenty of wrongness here, but it's done in a way that one of the pages at work said "I'm so offended, but I can't stop reading." Which pretty much sums it up. It's offensive, but you want to know what's on the next page.
Where To Shelve: Adult. No hesitation with this one. It says right inside the front cover "For Mature Audiences" and Dark Horse (the publisher) lists it at 16+.
How I learned about it: It had been reviewed in a journal or catalog, however, it was a bear to actually get. Also, the review mentioned the hilarity aspect, but not really the adult and wrongness (in the right way) of it.
Reviews:
http://www.shinyshelf.com/2007/11/10/the-trial-of-colonel-sweeto-and-other-stories/
http://www.playbackstl.com/content/view/6774/167/
http://thedailycrosshatch.com/2007/08/29/the-trial-of-colonel-sweeto-by-nicholas-gurewitch/
http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/13-825/The-Perry-Bible-Fellowship-The-Trial-of-Colonel-Sweeto-and-Other-Stories-HC
http://www.avclub.com/articles/comics-of-note-november-9-2007,22511/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2007/nov/02/bloodshedcrueltymurderthes
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/11/the_perry_bible_fellowships_fi.html
New Yorker Magazine did an interview with the creator:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/11/nicholas_gurewitch_kind_of_reg.html
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