We're in an America based on tabloid news, underground comix, 1970s trash culture, Jack Chick Tracts, Mad magazine, and what Fox News viewers likely think kids these days are up to. The geist is very 70s, blended with present-day and 1990s elements. In short it's a story that could only take place in a comic book, and one NOT intended for children. It features a small army of small town characters, including writer/artist Rick Altergott's most notorious antihero, the socially maladjusted loser, Doofus, who lives comfortably without apparent means of support and devotes his time to metal detecting, masturbating, and huffing women's underwear.
The graphic novel is Blessed Be, first published in April of 2024 and based on material from Raisin Pie, the adult comic Altergott co-created with his wife, Ariel Bordeaux.
The plot begins with Tom Cottonwood, the self-proclaimed Acid King, an
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