Critters #35

Fantagraphics' beloved funny-animal anthology hits issue #35 with a cover that practically shakes the walls — three punk-rock crocodiles are tearing through a wild concert set, one shredding a red electric guitar in leopard-print shorts, another thrashing behind a drum kit, all while a frenzied crowd of fellow critters surges up from below the stage. Cover artist Lela Dowling brings a wonderfully chaotic energy to the scene, with stage lighting blazing overhead and every toothy grin dialed up to eleven. Inside, J. P. Morgan delivers Part I of "They Came From Beneath Somebody's Garage!!" — a title that promises plenty of the offbeat, good-humored storytelling that made Critters a fixture of the 1989 independent comics scene.