By Richard Moore (NBM)
ISBN13: 978-1-56163-515-4
Probably the best comedy comic coming out of America at the moment, Boneyard relates the odd life of Paris, a sensitive young man who has inherited his grandfather’s cemetery in the distinctly odd town of Raven Hollow. Along with the actually grounds came the residents, many of whom are still distressingly ambulatory and some who become the closest thing to Family that Paris has ever known.
As well as Glump the demon, assorted monsters, skeletons, gargoyles, witches, werewolves and swamp creatures there’s also Abbey, a beautiful vampire who Paris really, really likes.
In the previous volumes (ISBN13: 978-1-56163-427-9 and ISBN 1-56163-487-5) the young lad only just settled in before thwarting The Devil himself, which drew him to the attention of the even more sinister US Internal Revenue Service. An eleventh hour offer from the luscious Roxanne Allen to buy the Boneyard was revealed as another nefarious plot, but Glump had a plan to save the day…
The irascible little demon’s plan is now reluctantly put into play and the assorted ladies of Boneyard doff their clothes for a “Swim Suit Issue†(in salacious Swamp Siren Nessie’s case that actually means putting more stuff on) but Glump – who has never abandoned his dream of world conquest – has more on his mind than just seeing chicks undressing…
And when Roxanne reveals her true identity to Abbey the fur – and fangs – fly…
There’s great merit in combining horror and comedy, and Richard Moore has shown that this vein is still largely untapped. This volume collects issues #9-11 and the Swimsuit issue of the brilliant comic series, combining cartooning with a wicked sense of slapstick and screwball humour. When filtered through a lens of cynical modernism, and with a slowly developing romance, this becomes an absolute masterpiece of a funnybook.
This edition is printed in colour for all those fools who wouldn’t buy it when it was first released in the original black and white.
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