A lot more happens in this book than just the wacky escapades of a kid and his magic bicycle. The entire town ends up getting sucked into a strange variation of Hell where everyone has dopplegangers that wear gruesome masks and try to destroy our hero’s very soul. And steal his bike, I guess. It’s quite the horrifying acid trip of story. I mean, it turns from light-hearted romp to OH MY GOD WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT on a dime.
But anyway, enough of that madness. MOVING ON.
EDIT: I have to take a little break from Lit Brick for the rest of the week, sorry. Too many other things are pulling at my attention, not the least of which is some minor preparation for my nomadic existence at the Phoenix Comicon on Friday. But hey, Lit Brick is like that now. I trust you already understand. This’ll push some commissions back, but it’s nothing too serious. I’ll see ya here on Monday.
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Sooo…. if you think about it, this ‘christian’ story is pushing magic, alternate realities, and possibly drugs…
I don’t think he actually has turtle power.
everyone has dopplegangers that try to steal your soul, light hearted romp to oh my god what the fuck on a dime. Now I may just be watching too much lately but anyone else get the Twin Peaks vibe from this story.
“light-hearted romp that goes WTF on a dime” describes pretty much the entire series. Except that the later books stop even bothering to have anything light-hearted at the front. The post-apocalyptic ones especially.
Classic kid literature, I tell you!
Your description kind of reminds me of Momo, and now I want to see that in comic form.
Does a failure to communicate happen in the story as well?
Now that I think about it, apparently Luke was supposed to represent Jesus.