![]() The benefit is that Mayor Clod’s problems raising funds and his ongoing demonisation of the Lizard People can generate a multitude of jokes, but the downside is that some matters just float around to no great purpose. He’s also spread plots over several episodes rather than compacting them. ![]() ![]() The barbed brilliance is still present, but more sporadically than previously, as if Russell packed most of what he wanted to say in the first six chapters fearful the series would be cancelled from under him as Prez had been, and only a few items from his list remained for these stories. ![]() It was surely just preaching to the converted, but nonetheless bold and hilarious for that. Mark Russell and Steve Pugh’s first volume of The Flintstones took aim at much of what’s wrong with present day America and nailed it unerringly. ![]()
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