I'm not sure who's idea it was to send me these comics after my slightly negative response to the Crap your Pants anthology (I do know actually, it was Jez's) but I'm beginning to get the feeling that me and Dan Lester aren't really on the same wavelength.
But what the hell...
Actually they ain't bad, hell I even laughed a few times, specifically at the 'barehanded' gag in issue 3 which is fantastic.
Dan seems to have this desire to shoehorn in smut and 'gross-out' humour at every opportunity, and because of this, jokes that would have been successful had they been a page shorter are killed by a needless innuendo (and when I say innuendo I mean highly explicit references) and it's just too forced.
What I'm trying to say is that had Dan not been aiming for a reputation as a 'sick' and 'twisted' comic creator, he would have made some pretty good wacky gag comics that i would have really liked. Remove the sex and you get some fantastic surreal moments reminiscent of The Goons and even Monty Python.
The jokes work alot more than most similar comics I've seen and the pacing is spot on in a few pages which takes some real skill. So he's definately got something. It's just too often smothered be giant erections and exploding heads.
One final point is that, if Dan managed to get himself a good illustrator, alot of his jokes would have benefitted heavily, his artwork does the job but sometimes the surrealness is less effective because of the quality of the artwork (specifically the Einstein strips here).
the comics are only £1 each and you'll get your money's worth if you enjoy that kind of thing. Hell, maybe even if you don't.