Is This Thing Loaded or Is It Just Me?: Or: Get That Flare Gun Outta My Face

This debut for writer, Eric Berger, and illustrator, Alex Galante, is a fast-spinning carousel of humorous vignettes that pulls the dinner cloth out from under the genre of absurd fiction. A grandfather who approaches death but veers the wrong way; a fanciful recapitulation of a quarterback; a man who fails to realize his mother is dead; a hot chicken that lays waste to generations; an emphatic rejection of employment; a homeless man seen for what he isn't. It's all there, along with a number of comedic illustrations that will knock your socks off and inspire you to remove other people's socks, too.