Flaming Carrot: Fortune Favors the Bold
by Bob Burden, Rachel Penn
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Author: Bob Burden, Rachel PennEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-11-25
ISBN: 1569713332
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Dark Horse
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Book Review: Eccentric Humor for Twisted Americans
Summary: 5 Stars
I picked this up in a comic book shop whilst on a shopping trip to buy food for my pet snake, Zoe. Ordinarily, I'd by wary of entering such an establishment for fear of the irrepairable damage to my reputation. This comic, however, has made such a gamble not only worthwhile, but perhaps even a life affirming moment.The Flaming Carrot is a bizarre, twisted, dim-witted wreck of a superhero, and one of the most unique characters in all of American literature to boot. He drinks, carouses, causes trouble, is prone to bouts of dementia, and even occasionally manages to emerge victorious over the seedy forces of evil and corruption that plague the collective American consciousness. His friends consist of other minor league heros, the Mystery Men (some of whom you may remember from the feature film of the same name), and drunken bimbos. He even has an awkward, dorky friend whom he's always trying to rid himself of. At the end of the day, its always difficult to tell whether or not he's actually caused more problems than he's solved, and that's what makes this book terrific in its eccentric humor.
Summary of Flaming Carrot: Fortune Favors the Bold
Summer nights, water-balloon fights, young girls in ragged cutoffs, a good band tonight on Carnival Island, and a walk along the great midway starts out this wild story of an impending alien invasion during Flaming Carrot`s summer vacation in Smallville. Flaming Carrot leads a rebellion of the Trekkies and Dr. Whovians that were duped into helping the spacemen build their beachhead here on Earth. Plus, an all-new Flaming Carrot text story!Just what would possess a man to wear a giant carrot mask with a controllable flame on top and walk through the city streets fighting crime? Don't expect an answer to that question; instead, expect a lot of strange laughs in Bob Burden's Dada comics masterpiece, The Flaming Carrot. Years before he created the Mystery Men, Burden was chronicling the tales of the original second-string, blue-collar hero. The stories in this fourth collection of Carrot tales show off the strength of Burden's wacky, nonsensical storytelling, without losing any of the favor of his reverence for the inane. You'll meet the Carrot's littlest friend ever (a potato bug). You'll see the return of the "dead dog who leaped up and flew around the room." And you'll watch how Flaming Carrot fights off a group of aliens with no feet, with the trusty help of his bubble pipe. --Jim Pascoe
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