Clever Tricks to Stave Off Death (Wondermark Vol 2)

It's a clever, tricky Wondermark comic strip collection! Originally published by Dark Horse Books in hardcover, and now reissued by the author in paperback, this volume follows Beards of our Forefathers to collect 100+ individual Wondermark comic strips. Publishers Weekly called it "mordant but must-have": Malki's comic strips are a form of resuscitated art in which 19th-century woodcuts and engravings get repurposed into 21st-century humor with snarky dialogue... This is the second mordant but must-have collection from Dark Horse. A typical Malki gag rises out of the World of Tomorrow-esque frisson of his staid premodern images of stiff men (frequently mustached and wearing waistcoats while lounging in drawing rooms) or women (parasols and cherubic expressions being their norm) exchanging dialogue more appropriate for a MySpace chatroom than Dickensian fiction. Malki's humor often has a surrealistic bent reminiscent of Terry Gilliam, given some extra steel by a near-constant obsession with death and disease, with particular attention in a hilarious end-of-book “Malady Matrix.” A little of Malki goes a long way, but it's a rare page that doesn't merit at least a chuckle. So, you know, that. At least 96 chuckles guaranteed!! Here are some other reviews of the book!