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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1022983.The_Perry_Bible_Fellowship_The_Trial_of_Colonel_Sweeto_and_Other_Stories?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1191554013m/1022983.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1022983.The_Perry_Bible_Fellowship_The_Trial_of_Colonel_Sweeto_and_Other_Stories?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/511585.Nicholas_Gurewitch">Nicholas Gurewitch</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10685042?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> "Alright, so a case can be made that The Perry Bible Fellowship (Dark Horse, 96 pp., $14.95) is some seriously sick shit. Redlining the eclectic meter with drawing styles that include Flash Player bold, Edward Gorey quaint, and treacle pastel, Nicholas Gurewitch's weekly strips fascinatingly manipulate time. Two rabbits are trapped in a pit—in the second panel, one says, "With love, anything is possible"; in the third, they climb out atop a writhing heap of their children. Or a man loudly proclaims his desire to a woman as they sit beneath an overhanging precipice of snow—the final panel reveals flattened skeletons on verdant spring grass. Gurewitch's art wonderfully implies that entire novels lurk in the void between panels." -- Village Voice <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/90448?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>