I Luv Halloween, Vol 1

I Luv Halloween, Vol 1 

By Keith Giffen & Benjamin Roman (TokyoPop)
ISBN 1-59532-831-9

Are you sick? Are you depraved, demented or just plain ‘not right’? Then it’s not necessary – but it won’t hurt either – if you pick up this darkly wicked little tome to reaffirm your skewed view of reality.

Every Halloween, Finch, Moochie, Pig Pig, Li’l Bith, Mush and the rest get together for their annual sugar-coated loot-fest. But this year it’s all botched up ’cause the very first old lady just gave them fruit, and everyone knows if you don’t get candy right from the start it’s nothing but rubbish all evening. Drastic steps have to be taken, or else this Halloween is ruined! Along the way meet also that friendly old policeman, the vicious, bullying older kids and that really stacked chick who lives next door – see their ultimate fates!

Comics veteran Giffen flexes his comedy – and bad taste – muscles in an irresistible confection that would win nodding approval from Charles Addams and the producers of Shaun of the Dead. The jovial malice is uniquely captured by the totally enchanting art of Benjamin Roman, whose inexplicably charming grotesques are the stuff of any animation studio’s dreams. Toys based on these sick puppies will sell and sell and sell.

If you have no fear of the dark, if you love a gross joke, and especially if you don’t care what your immediate family or the clergy think of you, then you really want to read this book.

© 2005 Keith Giffin & Benjamin Roman. All Rights Reserved.