review 1: It's artfully done- Sikoryak is a very competent stylist and mimic- and I enjoyed it, but ultimately this is a one gag book built around a single formula. And it revels in the a fatal weakness of modern comics for self-reference...the last thing we need is another comic about comics or comic writers- we need the talent to concentrate on expanding the frontiers not closing them off. It's all very knowing and ironic, but it rather makes me yearn for the innocence of the original golden age comics that did not pretend to be anything more than they were. review 2: This book was so cool! Sikoryak takes literary classics like The Scarlet Letter, Crime and Punishment, and The Metamorphosis and re-tells them in the style of classic comics! Anyone who's loved Little L... moreulu will enjoy her as "Pearl" in "Red Letter Days"; her mom plays Hester and Tubby plays Hester's long lost husband! And poor old Charlie Brown makes a perfect Gregor Samsa. I'd give this book to older kids if it weren't for the Creation story with Dagwood and Blondie in their pre-sin state of nakedness, not something I actually needed to see on Dagwood Bumstead! less
