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Freiheit, Mike – Go Fuck Myself: The Fuckpendium

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Go Fuck Myself: The Fuckpendium

What a delightfully odd book! Forgive me for starting a review for a book with two “fuck”s in the title in such a prim and proper way, but I’m still processing. Also I just looked up his website and he has a book called “Monkey Chef” about his time in a South African monkey sanctuary, so you’re lucky I’m writing this at all and not running out to the closest comic shop to read that sucker. As for this one, I was bracing myself for mopey nonsense. Which doesn’t have to be a bad thing! But I was ready for shit to get real emo, real fast. Instead I found out that this is mostly a delightful romp through past and future versions of himself, both trying to survive and/or impress his lady by being a halfway decent caveman and trying to survive in a distant future where everybody has everything (except, much to his chagrin, the cure for baldness). All of that is somehow seamlessly tied together with his observations from his actual life. Yes, he does talk briefly about depression, but in such a hopeful and helpful way that I’d be hard pressed to call that mopey. This is a collection of all three issues of his series of the same name, but even if you are one of the people who grabbed the first two issues, this also has a third issue that is only available here, so you’re not getting out of this that easily. There’s also both a foreword and an afterward, both amazing in entirely different ways. And this might be a first, but no, I’m not even going to spoil those bits. I guess I should still try to write whatever it is that’s a regular review for me, so here goes. In this book Mike talks about the misery of running, life doing a real number on him, guesses as to what’s under his beard, a few fairly ridiculous questions for his wife that she apparently takes in stride (ain’t love grand?), fax cat, eye meat, a tree with a gun, dreams of the hairstyles he’d like to try and, of course, Sky Beast. You’ll notice that I didn’t get into the future or past stuff, because those are for you, dear reader! I thoroughly enjoyed this one and have no trouble at all saying y’all should give it a shot. Or maybe you should go for the Monkey Chef book first, because even without reading it I’m going to go ahead and call that one a masterpiece. $20