monkeysvsrobots.com » Evan Dorkin’s Fun With Milk & Cheese Comic Review

You want more of the COMICS? I have more of the COMICS! Hollywood Denney and I have talked at length about how it’s far more important that friends hate the same things than like the same things, and I believe this to be very true. So without further ado… my new best friends Milk & Cheese!

There are many things we all dislike, many things which make us bang our head against the wall (that’s a metaphor by the way), but do we ever do anything about them? Uh-uh. Why? We’re pansies. But now you, yes YOU can live vicariously through the funtastically fun adventures of Milk & Cheese!!! They’re cute icons of unadulterated hatred! Hatred in the form of a block of cheese (Cheese) and a carton of milk (hmm… could that be… Milk?) with little cartoon gloves and booties.

They hate the government, they hate mimes, they hate babies crying in movie theatres, they hate all things trendy! And yes, beloved reader, they hate YOU!!! (almost as much as Cliff Yablonsky himself). You’ll see such swanky stories as “Injustice is King”, “Hippie Hate Fest” and “Street Performers Must Die!” What a treasure trove of guilty pleasures! So if there’s anybody or anything you ever wanted to see tied up, rolled in glass and set on fire… then rejoice! Indescribably brutal acts will be performed on those you dislike somewhere in the pages of this book.

Fun with Milk & Cheese by Evan Dorkin
(Slave Labor Graphics)
Review by Future

Milk and Cheese is a delightful collection of short stories (most are only a page or two), and we all love short stories. They get to the point, no dilly-dallyin’ and no tomfoolery. This is a great selling point for people with short attention spans like me. I have a busy day of smoking cigarettes, making “art” and watching the wrassle fightin’ on TV. Maybe when I have a bit more free time I’ll review the Iliad. Until that day, I’ll stick with Milk & Cheese thank you very much. This may not be the book for you if you’re squeamish or offended easily, because you will see lots of old ladies pushed down stairs, baby carriages set on fire, and many a beer bottle being broken over many a hapless person. If this is the case, maybe you should start reading baby comics for babies!
I know you must be saying, “I like mindless funny violence and all, especially against hippies… but is there more to this book? Is it literature? Is it art?” Well if you’d pipe down for a second Captain Smarty-Smart, I was just getting to that! These adorable mascots of mayhem make plenty of poignant social commentary in addition to maiming annoying people. It’s quite deep and though provoking. Well, not really, but it did make me laugh like a giddy little school girl with lines like: “We’ve got drinking problems, we can’t get drunk!” and “We blame society and your mother!” or “No Canadian coins! Glass in face for you!” I guess it’s not as funny out of context, but this review is getting too long and I’m tired. Dairy products beat the shit out of icky, icky people and say funny stuff. It’s good. Art good too. Future like. Funny good. Buy now. Sleepy. Tired. zzzzzz…