Billy Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird by Tony Millionaire
My rating: 3/5 cats
too bad, tony millionaire, this book is a snooze. you won me over after a long battle, but then you forgot how distracted i can get, and did not hold my attention with this one at all.
i used to hate tony millionaire. and i don’t even know why. i didn’t respond to his drawing style, and he creeped me out a little, so i never bothered to read him. but i finally did, and i realized i had been depriving myself for nothing—he is fantastic! and i loved the first billy hazelnuts book, but this one falls way short. it’s pretty boring actually. it’s just a lot of animal-fighting, but not even cool animal fighting, like ted stearn, just little billy hazelnuts punching owls and cats. (that owl totally deserved it)
the first one was a great break from drinky crow and uncle gabby,
and i was hoping he would be able to sustain this story about a creature made from garbage and assembled into “human” form by rats. how could that not be fun forever? but—nope, not this time. $20.00 of not much fun. it’s not bad, i just wasn’t queasy-enchanted, so i am grouchy about it.
i remember when penguin started their run of “graphic novelists do classic literature covers”, i thought to myself “oh, it would be grand if tony millionaire did moby-dick. and then he did, and it was indeed grand.
incidentally, ted stearn has one coming out soon:
so we love tony millionaire, we just think he can do better next time, please.
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