2023 / Library book / 228 pages
**
Patronising edutainment crossover. I was debating whether I needed to struggle through the more squarely kid-oriented ranges to complete this era, but I'll let myself off the book hook.
Rhys Hughes, A New Universal History of Infamy
***
The painstaking Borgesian facsimile is more admirable than entertaining. Fortunately, things loosen up in the second half with more conventional Hughesian twptra.
Faves: 'The Honest Liar: Denis Zachaire,' 'Streetcorner Mouse,' 'Finding the Book of Sand'
2011 / Ebook / 10 pages
**
Not terrible, until it sputters and dies along with the enthusiasm. Could even have made a viable charity special, back when its specific parody was a bit less niche.
1994 / Ebook / 86 pages
***
Not as funny as Alan Moore's weird brew, but it satisfied the craving.