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Just bought a copy of "Fortune Favors the Bold!", reprinting Flaming Carrot 19 - 24. It's genius. Shirtsleeve superhero surrealism by Bob Burden. For those unfamiliar with the Carrot, he was a regular Joe who decided to read 300 comic books in a single night, which caused him to go insane (of course), and the next day he awoke from a psychotic stupor with a giant carrot mask on his head and a speaker implanted in his chest. Hey, these things happen, right? And so of course he becomes a superhero. That's what I'd do.
I'm trying to find a selection of quotes from the book to give you a taste of the strangeness, but I can't pick. There is the part where the Carrot, after being irradiated with Weird Cosmic Energy, flies around the countryside and meets his guardian angel, the ghost of Silas Marner, but words do it no justice. Just give it a look, or any of the other Flaming Carrot TPBs if you're into weird comic adventures that read almost like beat poetry at times.
"Flying friendly skies... would you like some coffee sir?... is it Maxwell House?... we are now passing over dark and nameless shapes... WAIT!!! I AM NOT AN AIRPLANE!"
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