Cowboys and Insects is a one-shot mini-comic from David Hein Shaky Kane, the creators of The Bulletproof Coffin and The Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred. I haven't read any of The Bulletproof Coffin comics, but I'm always up for a mini-comic. The basic story is that nuclear tests have created giant insects, insects so big that people eat them and corral them the way in another universe people eat and corral cows and goats. Welcome to Bug Town, Colorado.
This is, as you can imagine, a very gross comic but a very fun comic. The one girl who is a vegetarian and thus doesn't eat bugs is seen as mentally ill and a freak. She and her family are ruthlessly treated by the Knights of the Head, a KKK-like terrorist organization. This comic speaks to the violence and deviance of normalcy in too many situations, how terrible a society can become when it doesn't think of those less fortunate than others. I absolutely love this mini-comic.
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