Synopsis This hilarious collection includes several stories featuring Ryan's signature creation, Loady MCGee (and straight-man Synus O'Gynus), a misanthropic, acne-scarred hustler who finds himself in scams that would make Wimpy proud, and responds to almost everything with an endless stream of wisecracks, puns, and X-rated double-entendres, Loady's ridiculous crackpot schemes - opening a brothel staffed by mutant lizards, get-rich quick inventions like the "Pussy Hunter 6000", founding a comic book school, and selling used toilet paper passed-off as new, just to name a few - serve as perfect comic set-ups, and Ryan's art is crammed with visual gags and existential asides that brings to mind the great Will Elder (Mad magazine). Needless to say, this is not politically-correct stuff, nor is it for children.Ryans' in-you-face humour spares no prisoners, as these stories indicate: Hipler, a riotous satire of our "extreme makeover" era and celebrity culture; Islamic Terrorist Spring Break, in which Ryan seemed to be single-handedly trying to counterbalance all of the self-censorship going on in the early post 9/11 media; and Ku Klux Kuties, which tests just how far the usual doe-eyed visual tropes can be taken. The book also includes Ryan's most infamous strip to date, The Gaytriot, which caused a p.c. stir when it was included in The Comics Journal's otherwise sincere and serious Cartoonists and Patriotism volume in 2002.
R**D
Hilarious!!
This book makes me laugh because of how wrong it is. I find horrible things funny. I am not easily offended. I enjoy funny stuff. If you are like me, you have to buy this. It might be the best comic you'll ever read. WAY better than Alan Moore.
O**I
A beautiful set of mind numbing nonsene
I really just want to appraise the feeling of "what the hell am I looking at" that came from this book. Its actually one of those, either you hate it or you love it. I got some good gutlaughts from it, especially the gorilla going to work instead of the main character, that care ride is gonna stick with me for some time
D**N
Johnny Ryan is Funnier Than You.
Just what is Johnny Ryan up to? Not much, and yet alot. Ryan has populated the world of Angry Youth Comix with a barnyard full of characters like Loady McGee, Sinus O'Ginus, Blecky Yuckerella, Boobs Pooter, Sherlock McRape, who will delight you with their Neo-Dadaist antics. Are you tired of all those highbrow "underground comix" with their dull solipsistic stories. Are you bored of cartoonists like Seth, Dan Clowes, and that guy who wrote Blankets? Then read What're You Lookin At? which collects the second volume of Angry Youth Comix. See Boobs Pooter make sweeet love to an Easter ham! Find out who hit Nelly in the belly with jelly! See Sherlock McRape...um... But I digress. Johnny Ryan is one of the funniest cartoonists working today and his humor is refreshing in a world where everything stinks.
