![]() ![]() That's true even in the dramatic, surprising ending that helps lead to an excellent snow-based gag. ![]() Once again, Greene exploits a genre trope and flips it around in amusing fashion, while still staying true to the way a genre story is paced and plotted. ![]() ![]() Finally, "Snow Trap" is a low-speed chase story involving some stolen vinyl and a city-stopping snowstorm. Greene's ability to make gross drawings funny is at the heart of his appeal. "A Complex Machine" is a bit of comedy-body horror that "warns" about the dangers of alternative medicine. The punchline (which comes after a series of ever more grisly gags) reflects why we should never try to fool the gods, because their sense of humor is especially dark. "Picacho El Diablo" is about a young woman who seeks out a goat on a particular mountain in order to rescue her mother from the god of the underworld, a story that gets increasingly frenetic as the young woman has a strict deadline in order to appease the god. It gleefully spins cop procedural stories and cliches on their collective ear while mostly being about table tennis. For example, "Rubber Sandwich" is an epic tale of a table tennis champ turned policeman being forced to go undercover in order to discover who's been killing the top table tennis contenders. ![]()
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