Very Casual

by Michael DeForge

Paperback, 2013

Status

Available

Call number

741.56

Publication

Koyama Press (2013), Paperback, 152 pages

Description

Culled from mini comics, online comics, and anthology contributions,Very Casual collects notable short stories from Michael DeForge's prolific oeuvre. Included are stories about litter gangs, meat-filled snowmen, righteous cops, beagle/human hybrids, and forest-bound drag queens.

User reviews

LibraryThing member NaleagDeco
Much body horror. Very much enjoyed it, although there was something disquieting about it. Hints of yonic themes, which would be unfamiliar and possible discomfort me given my social programming? I suspect so.

I am admittedly a robot, there were possibly deep body themes and emotional themes that I
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am not subtle enough to get. I really enjoyed the story of the man with a beagle for a body. It resonated a lot with me. There were hints of resonance elsewhere, the discomfort and the misshapen and the alienness that so many of the characters had, but yet I could not connect to it for other reasons.

As someone who is very much not into bodies and humanity, this book probably has themes of body and humanity that made me uncomfortable.

Stories were thin (but they didn't need to be otherwise) but they were good to read over, like a road trip you could probably stand to do again and again but probably will not.
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Physical description

152 p.

ISBN

0987963074 / 9780987963079
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