Scrublands TP

Description

THE STORIES in SCRUBLANDS swing from introverted dreamlike stream-of-consciousness to over-the-top postmodern vaudevillian. The wordless "Prebaby," the book's centerpiece, is musical in execution, and unfolds like the storyboard to a wonky existential cartoon (it's no surprise that Daly studied animation for two years at Cape Town's City Varsity College). In contrast, the "Kobosh and Steve" stories are like a series of routines by a demented Abbott and Costello. Kobosh even visits a down-on-his-luck Bruce Springsteen in one story, while another strip features a pair of micro-fauna questioning their existence as they feed off the rock legend's scalp.