When is a banana not a banana? When you’re wearing a fake ‘tache and calling yourself Derek the former gay pornstar, smashed out of your mind on vodka and coke! So what is it if it’s not a banana? I have nay idea and David Lapham won’t tell me on the Twits. If anyone figures it out, please tell me!
Sunshine and Roses continues to rock - Part 4: The Salad Days is grand! I was wary about Lapham focusing on Beth’s bitch mom Annie again – she was ok though I kinda hoped we’d left her behind in the last book - but her story with Kretchmeyer as an unlikely semi-crippled Bonnie and Clyde looking for Kretch’s missing lil bro turned out to be the best part of the book! Their shootout in Kretch’s tiny hometown was hella exciting and really fun.
As always with Stray Bullets there’s both darkness and comedy galore. We see the story of how Kretch killed his parents and his little brother’s heroin habit on skid row, as well as how Beth and Spanish Scott almost hooked up and Orson’s bizarre misadventures as Derek. Beth, Orson and Nina continue their meandering journey on the lam but it feels like things are starting to wrap up now as they finally reach the west coast.
The Amy Racecar issue was meh – a wacky school story that wasn’t bad but wasn’t really that great either. I also didn’t get why Orson would leave Beth in San Diego – she’s told him to leave her plenty of times before, why would he do it now? I suppose we got to see the aftermath of their heist in Baltimore with a special PS for Chandra the stripper, which wasn’t a bad thing - it just felt contrived and a bit awkwardly shoe-horned in.
Other than that, it’s Stray Bullets – David Lapham can do no wrong with this series!
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