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Hey, remember what I said about Lewis Trondheim's other book of pantomime comics,
Mister O![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vDqrJ076idr_LBaYSI-mkR1hqQHZUUrqYli4a0U12gkUnrbkXTDC0et-iKy_9k4FAAM91iHg2wyv3RW1MEwCjcJBZoL6YLjok7LuPnHkZ760eOzXrBQ6Hd6xeA9EzB-hOIbByWIcYEZiFooqx5=s0-d)
? (Please tell me you do -- it was only back in
Book-A-Day # 201.)
Well,
Mister I![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tVhnZt19dk_tontv7ybWeo3Z9vxQaaEqU6LXWJgt1qGEUFaqZDbMN8oymBqlzTFIUZP-U_eEWtCMmBLjqd_g_btTwtDaW32uxdb5MxIwX9D44LV_A6WcVD1fr1I-dc6uT786eIRxO933DCU5M=s0-d)
is very much the same kind of thing -- the same layout, the same repetition of initial premises through various permutations, the same horrible ends for the main character. But Mister I is a tall guy who wants food -- we presume that he's hungry, though he's most often trying to steal an apple pie from a windowsill, which speaks of mischief and desire rather than hunger. Mister I is just as successful in his endeavors as Mister O was -- which is to say, not at all. He's eaten by what's probably a dog, shot, gored by a bull, beaten to death, drowned, and crushed by any number of objects. (It's not a happy life for a pantomime character in Lewis Trondheim comics.)
And, again, these are wonderful comics, the equivalent of a great Chuck Jones Roadrunner cartoon on the page. The figures are stylized to make them everymen (or everybirds, or everbulls), which also keeps the violence -- and there is a
lot of violence, just like those old cartoons -- funny rather than appalling. Mayhem and attempted pie-stealing have rarely been this funny.
Book-A-Day 2010: The Epic Index
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