Snake

by Allan Salisbury

Mr. S. Snake, a suicidal adder who likes to make outrageous puns, looks for friends and wishes he had arms and legs

Genres: Graphic Novels

128 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1984

About the author

aka SOLS

Reviews

[David · Rating 2 out of 5]

Here's how I'd sum up most of Snake:

-Snake has no friends
-No one comes to Snake's party
-Snake attempts suicide unsuccessfully
-Snake tells a bad joke and gets beaten up
-Snake thinks for a moment Lady Snake likes him. It was a misunderstanding.
-Snake laments not having human characteristics
-Snake gets meta and lashes out at cartoonist Sols for his treatment

If that sounds good to you, you'll like Snake. Of that list, the last two I found pretty consistently funny. As for the rest: many comics I'd argue are improved by reading in quick succession in a collection. For Snake, I don't think that's true. It all feels a bit redundant in a large dose.

Of the bad jokes Snake tells Kangaroo, this is my favorite one.
--Kangaroo: I saw an acrobat once drop twenty feet into a bucket of water!
--Snake: That's nothin'! I saw an editor once drop thirty-five stories into a waste paper bin!

[Gary Vassallo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious!