Lash's artwork in this b-&-w collection is sure and evocative: conjuring up fifties horror comics on one page, then going for romance comics on the next. In the stand-up story, he even opens with a full-page panel replicating the brush lines and layout of Mad comics creator Harvey Kurtzman. In the concluding Sodd story, Lash and his wife/editor Jackie Estrada go one better by enlisting the services of five comics artists who themselves have drawn swampy characters (among them, original Swamp Thing artist Bernie Wrightson) for a series of proposed movie posters showcasing the exploited Sodd. "We didn't have this much trouble with our Gary Busey docudrama," one of the would-be producers of the Sodd film states after rejecting all five posters. "His attorneys weren't Wolff and Byrd!" one of his cohorts replies.
Long may they litigate.
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