Flaming Carrot Comics: The Wild Shall Wild Remain!

by Bob Burden

Collects Flaming Carrot comics # 4-11.

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...Burt Bacharach? No! It's the Flaming Carrot smacking baseballs into the heads of greasers in order to embarrass them in front of their tramp girlfriends. Now that's a superhero!

This big fat book is hot off the press, chock-full of a second installment of the Flaming Carrot's undisputed gallantry and certitude. Such acts of bravado as inserting carrot sticks up fat dope-dealers' noses, defending the world from a communist plot that changes women's cellulite into a weapon of mass destruction, and unraveling the conundrum of a diabolical technology that turns a Republican governor's head into a...baby head!

And all our champion of justice wants in return for his efforts is money to buy golf balls the size of hail! FC just keeps getting sillier and sillier, and better and better. Oh, and as usual, there's lots of provocative women in cutoffs and tight tops…

Genres: Comics, Comic Book, Graphic Novels

117 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1997

About the author

Best known for his Flaming Carrot and Mystery Men creations.


Wrote numerous Gumby comics. Also, has a short story in Dark Love which was released in 1989.

Reviews

[D.M. · Rating 4 out of 5]

More of the same strangeness here from Bob Burden, but with the longest storyline he seems to have attempted (and a jacket blurb from Alan Moore!). Burden's art seems slightly improved, but nothing gets in the way of the delightful insanity of this deranged character. Nearly any single page would perfectly illustrate to the uninitiated just what sort of peculiarity lurks between these pages. Though this collects later issues 4 through 11, this would be a great place to start reading Flaming Carrot...if you had to.

[Doug Brunell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Babyheaded politicians. A woman breast feeding a dictionary. Communists! It's time for more absurd and surreal superhero adventures with Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot.

Marvel and DC purists may scoff at this (especially the two villains who cause Superman's thumbs to disappear), but as much of a fan as I am of Daredevil and Batman, the Flaming Carrot is always a good read. It is as sublime as it is inspired and insane. There is no telling what will happen from panel to panel, and that's a good thing. Women being sucked dry of their cellulite? Check. Bullets that won't fly straight? Check. A hobo who keeps his head in a bag? Check. It's all here and more just waiting for you to discover it.

[Fraser Sherman · Rating 5 out of 5]

The lunacy of this comic book series never fails to entertain. A mad Russian scientist plots to turn women's fat into a doomsday weapon! The governor of the state is reduced to a babbling babyhead! The Flaming Carrot and Death go out drinking! Communists seize control of the city and secede from America! Can the Flaming Carrot save the day? Even nuttier than it sounds.

[S. Wilson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great collection of Bob Burden's famous flame-topped vigilante, this volume contains issues four through eleven of Flaming Carrot comics. There so much going on in here that it's heard to break it down, but if you're a fan of the Flaming Carrot, or just love surrealist humor in your comic books, this book is virtually indefensible. Be wild and pick it up. Ut!