Havasy, Joe – Misanthropic Cavalcade #5

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Misanthropic Cavalcade #5

Joe seems to be moving away from the humans more and more, as this issue is 100% “A Scientific Fact” stories.  Not that that’s a bad thing at all, as who doesn’t like mostly silent tales of various animals in emotional and/or physical distress?  All that really matters is, once again, how it took me ages to pick out the proper sample, as almost anything in here could have been used due to sheer awesomeness.  Stories in here include the revolving door of breaking up and drunkenly calling back, the cow with gills, getting bored already after a random girl agrees to go out with you, the taste of Mountain Dew, how lovesickness is cured, misidentifying a slug, a flying buffalo, being cured of a desire to kill yourself by a pretty girl, an unsatisfactory gift, the futile suicide attempt of a T-Rex, bug courtship, the anatomical impossibilities of the birds and the bees doing it, abandonment issues, a frightened sheep, commitment issues and what an actual tiger would do with Frosted Flakes.  There’s also one story about a young woman who finds an old picture in her desk and how it unleashes a flood of memories, one of the rare thoughtful pieces in the book.  For a book of humorous one-pagers, I don’t mean this as a bad thing.  As always, it’s well worth checking out, and if the carefully chosen samples on this page can’t convince you of that fact, the pile of free strips on Joes’ website should do that nicely.  $3