bluenicorn's review against another edition
4.0
Excellent, excellent- language, artwork, everything.
charles_cbcpl's review against another edition
4.0
This graphic novel creates a violent and sweet dreamscape rendered in thick pen lines and humorous faux-victorian dialogue. If you enjoy Terry Gilliam films (the better ones anyway), it will definitely make you smile. I preferred Tony Millionaire's Sock Monkey, but both are worthwhile and easily read in under half an hour.
munchin's review against another edition
3.0
This is probably the single oddest book I've ever read. I have no idea what to make of it. I am bemused.
elouisevb's review against another edition
3.0
This was defiantly not what I was expecting! It was a fun thrilled action adventure, featuring all sorts of different creatures and animals. I will defiantly be carrying on with the second book. Overall I give this book a 3.75.
thecommonswings's review against another edition
5.0
As countless attempts to do surrealist comics very quickly come apart because of their creators’ inability to understand what surrealism actually is, those people should look to Tony Millionaire to find out how it’s done. Although very different to Jim Woodring in content and style, he shares a very similar sense of representing dreams on paper. Whereas Woodring heads into a richly symbolic world, Millionaire seems more interested in childhood and the universe surrounding those formative years. Billy Hazelnuts - created by mice, “humanised” by a young girl - flirts with nursery rhymes and fairy tale territory, but drives it in this ferocious direction where events have a kind of inevitability to them.
There’s a line in Twin Peaks, another work of art that demonstrates the success and failure of trying for surrealism, that I always love from Mike, the one armed man: “I mean it like it is, like it sounds...” I always read that line as a crystallisation of Lynch’s belief that the story doesn’t have to make literal sense but have a sort of flow that it DEMANDS to have. So the events in this make no narrative sense in conventional story telling but have this real sense of feeling like moments rising from the depths of the unconscious mind. There’s a sadness and anger and beauty here, but one that feels drawn from a singular vision and brought into a glorious whole. It’s a phenomenal work of art, let alone a great comic
There’s a line in Twin Peaks, another work of art that demonstrates the success and failure of trying for surrealism, that I always love from Mike, the one armed man: “I mean it like it is, like it sounds...” I always read that line as a crystallisation of Lynch’s belief that the story doesn’t have to make literal sense but have a sort of flow that it DEMANDS to have. So the events in this make no narrative sense in conventional story telling but have this real sense of feeling like moments rising from the depths of the unconscious mind. There’s a sadness and anger and beauty here, but one that feels drawn from a singular vision and brought into a glorious whole. It’s a phenomenal work of art, let alone a great comic
floodfish's review against another edition
3.0
Of course the drawings are jaw dropping and the hijinks hijinkular—this is Tony Millionaire. But ... points off for flippant animal cruelty. And for a story that is merely ok enough to set up the action sequences. Comes close to deeper emotional resonance, but can’t quite make the leap.
emilyinherhead's review against another edition
3.0
This is clearly the beginning of a pretty zany adventure. It's fast-paced, sometimes to a slightly confusing degree, but I liked the art style, impressive writing, and madcap vibe.
francomega's review
3.0
I'm a fan of Millionaire's "The Drinky Crow Show" so I kinda knew what to expect here. That's not to say it still wasn't a trip and a half. The guy has some mind. Don't know what else to say that isn't explained in the description on the back of the book: "...a story about Becky, girl scientist, her pal Billy Hazelnts (who was created from suet, yeast, and discarded mince-meat pie by mice in the basement), and their journey to find the missing moon while battling an evil steam-driven alligator with a seeing-eye skunk." See?
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