This review was run in Booklist. Written by Ray Olson.
Attitude Featuring: Neil Swaab, Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles
Oh, those bad boy cartoonists. A family of rage-oholics wasn't enough (Peter Bagge's The Bradleys). Ex-hippie cretins weren't enough (Rick Altergott's Doofus). Foul-mouthed office workers weren't enough (David Rees' Get Your War On). Stinky kids fixated on body fluids weren't enough (Johnny Ryan's Blecky Yuckerella). Drunken animals blowing their brains out weren't enough (Tony Millionaire's Maakies). Now it's a depraved, child-molesting teddy bear, Mr. Wiggles, and his unconscionably tolerant roommate, an alter ego (we're told) of Swaab. Drawn in the sophisticated-crude manner of Lynda Barry's Ernie Pook's Comique, Swaab's weekly feature is usually just as wordy, but in service to the gag rather than nuance. A week gives Swaab enough time to goose the full comic potential out of a gag, though he'll do a series if the idea needs it (see the sequence about Jesus' drinking problem). Swaab suggests that his strip exercises the honored strategy of laughing the devil to scorn, which reduces—a bit, at least—the guiltiness one feels for chortling at his funny, funny (hideous, blasphemous, obscene) ideas.