by John Swartzwelder
John Swartzwelder has written a zillion episodes of The Simpsons, and I'm guessing he's the guy who came up with the gag that Mr. Burns is always making ancient cultural references like "Idlewild Airport" and "Amalgamated Spats," because this entire book is in that vein: a bunch of little gags that ...
It is almost impossible to read Frank Burly's dialogue without hearing Homer Simpson's voice in your head. I like to imagine that in some alternate reality after the Simpsons came to an end the actor playing Homer moved on to a new series about a bumbling detective in a quasi-Science Fiction settin...
another laugh-out-loud read, swartzwelder tells me a funny story about a very stupid and ridiculous protagonist, the self-proclaimed Frank Burly, detective and his struggles in the time space continuum. cheap laughs but i needed 'em. :)
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