This isn't just some mildly amusing artifact of a bygone age. THE FABULOUS FURRY FREAK BROTHERS are amongst the funniest comic work ever written and drawn. It's right there with Carl Barks' Donald Duck stories and the original MAD comics. I love Cheech & Chong, but they paled in comparison to THE FABULOUS FREAK BROTHERS - which was THE break-out comic characters of the Underground Era. If you pick up one of the collections from RIP OFF PRESS you'll quickly learn that Gilbert Shelton's talent for humor is nearly unparalleled.

And much of the humor doesn't revolve around just drugs, but their interaction with their sentient cat, a corrupt and hilarious government, friendship, poverty, laziness, desperation, facing reality and so many universals. Gilbert has always had the wit and humor that I loved Hunter S Thompson for.

Harry Knowles - AICN