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Until a few weeks ago I had never heard of Bizarro fiction. A relatively new genre, it bills itself as the cult section of the literary world and boasts titles such as Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland, Shatnerquake and The Haunted Vagina (all of which, frankly, sound like contenders for Best Book Ever.)

The Bizarro movement exists to provide literature for lovers of weird reads, and reads surely don’t come much weirder than Family Romance, by Tom Bradley and visual artist Nick Patterson. Taking Patterson’s deviantArt as a starting point, Bradley has fashioned a darkly humorous, sexually perverse and satisfyingly gruesome tale of life in and around a none-more-dysfunctional family.

As mysterious creatures eavesdrop at the window, Mom fills her children’s heads with ludicrous doctrine and instils fear of the pathogens that can attach themselves to the back of your head and make you sneeze so hard it blows your whole face off (the ‘Sneeze Catastrophic’). Dad, meanwhile, has abandoned his family and his religion and joined the side of the Relic Amalekites, heathens who are said to wipe their assholes with both hands and worship false deities. Little Sissy swears Dad is buried in the garden; but then, she hasn’t been quite right in the head since her visit from the Grand Religiopath. Continue reading →