Bob the Angry Flower: Dog Killer - Softcover

Stephen Notley

3.89

28 ratings by Goodreads

9781892391346: Bob the Angry Flower: Dog Killer

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ISBN 10: 1892391341 ISBN 13: 9781892391346

Publisher: Tachyon Publications, 2006

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"Intensely funny. I've been laughing like a supervillain for days."
Joss Whedon, creator, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Notley’s syndicated Bob the Angry Flower exemplifies the new science-fiction comics. Instead of rocketing around the galaxies, it generally stays on terra firma and lets the aliens come to it. It features robots, especially the lugubrious author’s alter-ego, Lovebot, and, getting brainy for a change, quantum phenomena, as when Bob, instead of just chopping a spunky crippled kid’ up with an ax, whacks him with a quantum waveform decollapser’ that renders the annoying child into innumerable, identical, possible spunky crippled kids. Trenchant references are made to highbrow fantasy (Kafka) and SF (Brave New World), but Notley is obviously most inspired by 1950s sci-fi’ flickers and their progeny of giant reptile/bug/thing attack yarns (though the big critter that most excites him is the already-big-enough bear; see the long, wordless story in the center of the book, Pure Action’). And he’s incensed by the Bush administration. Bob is pretty transparently another Notley alter ego the main one yet he also seems an ambulatory bud from The Little Shop of Horrors’s Audrey. Energetically drawn, top-drawer madness.”
Booklist

I just laugh my butt off every time I see Bob having one of his hissy fits. And who else describes what we live with now so succinctly Cheney’s tiny Republican heart, tight with hate.’? Bob is me and Bob is you...”
Donna Barr, author of Desert Peach and Stinz

The long-awaited Dog Killer (Tachyon) is a whole new chance to revel in Notley’s fevered, nihilistic madness.”
The Onion

How I pity those English monolinguists who will only know Bob the Angry Flower as a hysterically funny force of chaos. Those who read Bob in its original Klingon know it to be a keen, insightful look into the humorous nuances behind today’s headlines.”
Phil Foglio, co-author of Girl Genius

Dog Killer is rife with wry political commentary and subversive play, but it’s also an appealing work of dark surrealism.... It’s courageous alternative art. Sounds a lot like what I enjoy about horror fiction....”
Michael Arnzen, The Goreletter

Bob the Angry Flower will rock your world.”
Keith Knight, author of The K Chronicles

It’s amazingly funny, totally offbeat, and like nothing else I’ve ever read.”
iComics

Synopsis:

Combining politics, surrealism, and pop-culture hilarity, Bob the Angry Flower is an edgy, trenchantly political, and achingly funny comic-strip character. Whether he's building killer robots, running for Pope, or getting creamed at 20 Questions, Bob is locked, loaded, and ready to destroy the earth - unless there's something good on TV. This collection of syndicated comic classics, the first to be published in the United States, is unpredictable, original, and wholly outrageous - perfect for disaffected teenagers, jaded grown-ups, disgruntled geeks, and Peter Pans of all ages.

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