So for this week, I read Robert Crumb's "Whiteman", and it was....interesting. The narrative starts by picturing a typical white family on their way to go camping in a RV. The father takes his kids on a hike (of course the kids are bitching the entire time), then they run off and the father tries to find them. This is where the story takes a rather weird turn, bigfoot ends up kidnapping the father and giving him to his daughter (of course after she forces him to please her orally).
So she grabs Whiteman and runs off to a cave where she eats roots of a tree and tries to feed Whiteman, which he can't eat. She ends up falling asleep and one thing leads to another and Whiteman ends up fingering and having sex with her. The rest of the story is kind of obvious, he falls in love with her, they try to go back to the city, she gets captured, he returns to his family and ultimately ends up with bigfoot in the end.
So with this comic, I went into it thinking it was just going to be over the top filth, foul language, sex and racism, but it wasn't like that at all, unless you really try and factor in some things. For instance, in the entire comic, it's only white people (the family, the hunters they run into in the woods, the sheriff and the authorities who end up holding the bigfoot in the cell). Now if you factor in that the big foot is analogy for African Americans, then this simple story of a family going hiking turns into a little darker of a story.
In the overall story, the "underground" parts of it were only in small segments, and it was only sex (beastiality more or less). The language in it uses stereo-typical phrases (kids whining about being active, wife constantly nagging, father is a hard working guy looking for an escape), the hunters are typical rednecks and the lab guy is a nerd.
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