Article originally written by Patrick MitchellStarting with poo makes a stinky beginning, but it can only get better from there and it does. Exponentially!
See why after the jump.
About a year ago, my brother told me about this comic on the web called “The Surreal Adventures of Edgar Allan Poo.” My first reaction was, “You mean ‘the Surreal Adventures of Edgar Allan Poe?” He responded back with, “No. It’s called ‘the Surreal Adventures of Edgar Allan Poo.'” I stared at him for a long time, shook my head and said, “You’re a big dumb dumb,” thinking that he was wrong, because I’m way smarter than him even though he’s four years older than me and a senior in college. Then we started fist fighting.
Once we returned from the hospital, he pulled up the web page of the comic and told me to read it. After another fight (this time with katanas), I sat down and was immediately engrossed in a fantastical dream world, chock full of crazy creatures and maniacal monsters.
Edgar Allan Poo gets dumped into a world that is out to get him. From the moment the water in the loo begins to swirl, Poo is being chased by a swarm of demons, fighting hydras and battling centaurs. There is no rest for Poo (except that one time when he rests) and Dwight L. MacPherson, the writer of this great tale, is constantly keeping the readers on their toes with fast paced story telling. Mr. MacPherson mixes many mythologies and his own wacky ideas to form a cohesive world where they can all exist. And the artist of the first book, Thomas Boatwright, does an amazing job of designing the characters and depicting a dreary dream world.
This is not a story for the hoity toity Poe fans who brood in their rooms all day, sipping coffee, fearing natural sunlight and hating life. This is a story for people who enjoy a good scoop of adventure, sprinkled with heavy amounts of suspense and a juicy cherry of lost love.
If you like what you read, check it out at drunkduck.com. If you are not a fan of reading off computers for long periods of time, Books 1 and 2 have been collected into two separate trades. But if you’re cheap like me you’ll suffer for a little while and at the same time enjoy a great story. So stop reading this right now and click on the link. Book 3 comes out soon and you deffinitively want to be up to date.
