I’m working on two Japan posts and a review/thingy about The Best American Comics 2007, and I came seriously close to declaring Bob Fingerman’s Recess Pieces as the best graphic novel released in 2006. It’s about a group of kids locked in a school where everyone who has gone through puberty becomes an old-school Romero Zombie. A bloodbath ensues, at the hands of precious-moments-figurine-lookin’ 8-year-olds.

I’ve read this thing like 6 times, it never stops being funny. Funnier than The Walking Dead anyway. Those fuckers have no sense of humour at all. And Recess Pieces is a done-in-one graphic novel, it doesn’t have the fifth volume ending in the middle of a goddamned plot-point.

Anyway, I came to my senses in the nick ‘o’ time (seriously though, that little girl has a FENCING FOIL) but I still say that Chris Ware should’ve shoved an excerpt of this right between the PAPER RAD stuff and Love & Rockets. You can check out a preview of the book at the Dark Horse Website.

Now I’m going to pour a drink and watch cartoons.

- Christopher