GERTIES GREASE PIT(ORIGINAL)
by: Flaherty

Rancid, Squeamish, and grotesque.These are words that I would use to describe the comic gerties grease pit.  
Flaherty takes you to last diner you would want to attend and plucks you right in front row and scrounges around in the alley to serve up a steaming pile of spit and grime in every panel.
This comic plays on the little fears and discomforts that we all may have when it comes to dining ,filled with shady individuals, less than desired cooks and meals made to order in the time it takes to flip a coin. Flaherty does a good job at making you rethink your breakfast, shocking your sense of taste and smell. Leaving the reader queasy and strangely exhausted at the idea of food. 


Probably a higher dosage than what your used to, Gerties Grease pit serves up a full helping of sludge and smeck lining the panels a moldy roach infested interior peacefully coexisting with itself  ,This was the overall feeling i get from reading this comic, I guess i have some enate interest in seeing food and the establihment being tarnished and slobbered up. I feeel Gerties does that well. introducing a mashup of zits and exaggerated features playing into the visual of unclean and rancid portait. this is the icing on the comics in the underground scene for me not to much of the bottom of the barrel in terms of jarring images and overly sexual content this comic charms and turns stomach with its comfortablyity with mess and slime. I dont really think the text leaves much to compliment the visual but adds a nice buffer to escape the dugenon. Overall a nice gem that I would like to return to after awhile.