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If you want to take the Force of Gravity to court, who do you call? Mr Crusht Acean, of course! When frozen blue men clutching giant sea-shells turn up outside a secret research station, who's the first person you contact? Who else but Mr Crusht Acean. Who's the only person who can solve a crime before it has been committed? Do we really need to answer that? Mr Crusht Acean works for the foremost Inter-Galactic Detective Agency and he's coming your way, courtesy of Glenn Dakin and Phil Elliott, the creator's of such notable books as Absent Friends and Abe, Wrong for all the Right Reasons.
64 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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January 9, 2020
"Sometimes I think that the only thing wrong with existence is that it attracts the wrong kind of people."
Worth reading for that line alone. This is excellent stuff from Dakin and Elliott, two of the guys behind the best of the 1980s Harrier Comics.
Most of these stories were published a couple of decades ago in the British comic "Strip" under the title "The Man From Cancer", and it's great to find them collected here, with an extra text story thrown in for good measure.
Wonderful stuff.
Worth reading for that line alone. This is excellent stuff from Dakin and Elliott, two of the guys behind the best of the 1980s Harrier Comics.
Most of these stories were published a couple of decades ago in the British comic "Strip" under the title "The Man From Cancer", and it's great to find them collected here, with an extra text story thrown in for good measure.
Wonderful stuff.
November 3, 2019
Very fun read but two warnings:
1.) Don't "Garner" anything from the title- there isn't any $200 a day plus expenses or sexy woman introduction for each episode.
2.) Don't read this if you need things to make sense with any regularity to enjoy a story- this is as bizarre as you'll come across.
So to the whackadoos like myself who enjoy absurdity -as long as the story isn't trying to be serious- here's the setup:
£.) Extremely British- I didn't get some of the lingo even though I'm a €urophile that reads as much non-American as I can which makes English English material the most plentiful.
#.) Independently Episodic- Six different cases told in sequential art ("comics") cases and one in tiny font prose that only have the characters linking each other.
?.) Smart Nonsense- Approaches various themes and notions in kaleidoscope fashion which illuminates the comedy of intrinsic absurdities.
1.) Don't "Garner" anything from the title- there isn't any $200 a day plus expenses or sexy woman introduction for each episode.
2.) Don't read this if you need things to make sense with any regularity to enjoy a story- this is as bizarre as you'll come across.
So to the whackadoos like myself who enjoy absurdity -as long as the story isn't trying to be serious- here's the setup:
£.) Extremely British- I didn't get some of the lingo even though I'm a €urophile that reads as much non-American as I can which makes English English material the most plentiful.
#.) Independently Episodic- Six different cases told in sequential art ("comics") cases and one in tiny font prose that only have the characters linking each other.
?.) Smart Nonsense- Approaches various themes and notions in kaleidoscope fashion which illuminates the comedy of intrinsic absurdities.
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