Underworld, Vol. 5: My Little Funny

Underworld #5

by Kaz

It's the fifth collection of cartoonist Kaz's alternative comic strip, Underworld, which has created a cult audience in over ten major markets for over a decade now in papers like The New York Press and Seattle Stranger.

For the first time, this volume will include an all-new 8-page, full color comic story entitled, "A Slice of Eye." Starring Salvador Dali, Kaz takes the painter's surrealist philosophies (paranoia critical method, edible beauty, etc.) and re-imagines them as a wacky screwball comedy. Kaz's use of Dali will come as no surprise to longtime Underworld fans whom have fallen in love with Kaz's Dali-like surreal and absurd re-invention of the classic American newspaper strip.

Genres: Comics, Comix

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Either Kaz was losing steam at this point (2004) or the strip just wasn't as funny as it seemed when I read it in the New York Press ages ago. Petit Mort, Creep Cat and the guy with the upturned chin still have their horrible, depraved, violent moments, but they're missing something. The saddest part of the book, though, is the blurb on the back cover from "The Post-modernist Aesthetic of Violence in Contemporary Alternative Comics: A case study of Kaz's Underworld," which says, "It is plausible to designate Kaz as a neo-cynic, a contemporary Diogenes who criticizes, with his own medium of expression the mentality of our culture." Is this who I was sharing the fandom with? You don't have to write like that, you know.

[Brett · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another (and I believe final) volume of Underworld. It's sad there's no Kaz girls in this one, however there are a few pages worth of full color comics to be had.