Moonshadow was born in an intergalactic zoo, the offspring of a drug-addled, Brooklyn-born hippie who calls herself "Sunflower" and a "grinning ball of light," an alien creature who may or may not be entirely capricious (read: absent father extraordinaire). This is probably one of the weirdest books I've ever read. All thoughts are my own and in no way influenced by the aforementioned. Received a review copy from Dark Horse and Edelweiss. Originally released in the mid 1980's by Epic Comics, then re-released in the Compleat version a decade later by Vertigo, now collected all together once again by Dark Horse. The story here just isn't very interesting, but it is worth flipping through the book for the art. It's not graphic visually, but the prose can be. Moonshadow does have a furry sidekick who is obsessed with sex. As the book labored on over it's 500+ page run, I found myself getting more and more perturbed with Moonshadow's pacivity as he continually just lets these awful people do horrific things to him. The comic is told as Moonshadow's memoirs and is more illustrated novel than a comic. Told allegorically with planet-sized malls called GimmeGimme, each issue focuses on a different subject as Moonshadow comes of age, consumerism, death, war, sex, etc. However, it's more of a Dickensian tale set in outer space. Moonshadow is billed as a fairy tale for adults.
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