Sometimes it is nice to take a break from reading long arduous books (just kidding, no book is arduous...) and pick up a graphic novel to read. Thanks to my friend Michael who lent me Dear Creature, it was wonderfully amusing. With an amphibious main character who just wants to fit in but finds it difficult since he cannot resist his craving for human flesh. My personal favourite trait of the creature is that he speaks in iambic pentameter! He learned to speak through bits of Shakespeare he found in bottles afloat in the water. Which is what leads him out of his watery depths to seek a life amongst humans, to find the source of these Shakespeare excerpts. Mixed up in all this comes a lovely romance of a slightly batty woman and this creature from the depths.
Jonathan Case
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