Reid Fleming - World's Toughest Milkman No. 1

is a 9-issue series of comic books that is a hilariously demented vision of life from Canadian cartoonist David E. Boswell, and published by Eclipse Comics from 1986 through 1998. A compilation of various Reid Fleming stories done for the defunct Canadian paper, , it has its own website that bills it thus: "The only comic that actively promotes a pure Neanderthal ! See how Reid deals with grouchy managers, angry customers, hot-rodding hoodlums, and mad dogs - without once missing his favourite TV show! Ton 'o laffs. Sure-fire fun, morning, noon, and night." My apologies for the quoted German word in italics--somebody must have read too many NY Times articles. It simply means a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it; in other words, world view.

Meaner than Mr. Natural, more unpredictable than Zippy the Pinhead, crosshatching his way into your heart - here he is, Canada's answer to the problem of Non-Dairy Coffee Lightener - ! Unless author/artist David Boswell vanishes without a trace, i predict that his character is going to become yet another Underground Cult Idol. The artwork is just great, the stories are crazy and the protagonist is just about as lovable as a bald headed psychopath can get. This book seems to be a collection of various Reid Fleming stories done for the defunct Canadian paper, The Georgia Straight. It is a mixture of one-pagers ("Fleming Favourites") and longer pieces, but there is a great deal of continuity in the series as a whole, and the running gags have a way of building, so there is no "anthology let-down" at all. --

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