Unshaven Chi #3/Get Bent #7
Well, at least there’s a break this issue from that endless ska story in Get Bent. Luckily this review is being written about ten years after this issue came out, which is about 9 years after that ska story stopped anyway, making any complaints I have about it kind of stupid. In Get Bent this time around we have Der Red Pumpkin (based on the Red Skull, with a hopped-up German accent), having just gotten his hands on a cosmic cube, wake up in the middle of space. He’s confused, but things only get worse when a cosmic creature confronts him and declares itself “A Jew with the power cosmic”. This concerned Jewish mother then sends him to the perfect punishment and wanders off in search of sex, which this old lady can have at any time because hey, power cosmic. This half of the book also has a section of palindromic gag panels, my favorite being “Ammo, my poor droopy Momma?”, but they get bigger from there. The flip side of the book, Unshaven Chi, keeps up its theme of sticking with the autobio. Stories this time around include Ben’s effort to improve his drawing of hands (and he includes a profoundly awkward attempt at hitting on the cashier in the bookstore) and Ben’s public service announcement to the slacker/stoners of the world to get off their asses and join the ranks of pizza delivery men (which includes another awkward tale of him delivering a pizza to a drunk woman who throws herself at him). Based on my complicated scientific formula for such things, I believe more than enough of this falls in the land of “funny” to warrant a purchase, assuming you can find this thing in Ben’s con appearances or perhaps through the wonders of the internet. If you can find it it’s probably still only $2…
