“The art is unbelievable. The writing is also unbelievable, but not in the same, positive way.
The dialog feels like weird Andy Kaufman stream-of-consciousness that just gets passed from one character to the other. I read maybe the last quarter of the book without any of the dialog and it was a much better experience. This book would totally work wordless. Itâd be weird and fun and maybe a little less frustrating. Itâs pretty unintelligible as it is, itâs not like this has a tight plot that the book would be lost without.
Shaolin Cowboy, while a great idea for a Garth Brooks/Will-Tang mashup album title, just didnât deliver the goods for me. “