A giant floating amoeba emerges from a magic tuba and sucks up Frank’s furniture-like dogs. Naturally that means Frank becomes mates with PigMan and goes on a road trip with him!
This Jim Woodring character, eh - will the man ever come up with anything remotely original!? It’s always the same old derivative fluff over and over! I kid of course, old Jim is nothing if not unique in his consistently bizarre, hallucinatory silent Unifactor stories. As visionary as they are though, Poochytown didn’t really do much for me.
Nothing that happened impressed me. The amoeba/tuba thing felt incidental and pointless, as did the crazy horse that did a number on Frank, and Frank/PigMan’s friendship wasn’t very fun. Zanier stuff has happened in previous books and Woodring doesn’t top those here. The road trip was very imaginatively rendered though with a stick and a steering wheel on the end planted into the ground that somehow moves the scenery?!
The art is as skilful and intricate as ever but hardly anything of the story was interesting to read – Poochytown is Poochydull! If you’ve never read any Jim Woodring before, I recommend starting with the much better Weathercraft instead.
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