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What if the US had decided to import thousands of hippos in the 1850s to feed a growing population, and basically turned the Mississippi into one big hippo-friendly marshland? (As indeed they almost did, albeit 50 years later.)
What if the Cowboy was replaced by the Hopper - a hippopotamusboy, with wellingtons instead of cowboy boots?
And what if a ragtag bunch of pansexual misfit conmen and assassins found themselves caught up in the inevitable power struggle over just who makes money off this, and having to do battle on hippo-back?
Yeah, this is just too much fun. In a way, it feels like a tiny bit of a missed opportunity. This could have been an American War With the Newts, you could easily have used the setup to burrow a lot deeper into US history - past and present. But Gailey sticks to the simple setup, …
What if the US had decided to import thousands of hippos in the 1850s to feed a growing population, and basically turned the Mississippi into one big hippo-friendly marshland? (As indeed they almost did, albeit 50 years later.)
What if the Cowboy was replaced by the Hopper - a hippopotamusboy, with wellingtons instead of cowboy boots?
And what if a ragtag bunch of pansexual misfit conmen and assassins found themselves caught up in the inevitable power struggle over just who makes money off this, and having to do battle on hippo-back?
Yeah, this is just too much fun. In a way, it feels like a tiny bit of a missed opportunity. This could have been an American War With the Newts, you could easily have used the setup to burrow a lot deeper into US history - past and present. But Gailey sticks to the simple setup, a heist story in a hippo-infested version of the Deep South, and it's just... well, too much fun. If this doesn't get turned into a TV series (on cable, obviously), it's proof that we don't deserve the world.