"Set in sun-drenched Cape Town, South Africa, The Red Monkey
Double Happiness Book - featuring two full-length stories,
The Leaking Cello Case and John Wesley Harding - is
stuffed to the gills with mystery, suspense, action, adventure, conspiracy
theories, cool cars, and excellent weed as Dave and his freeloading pal
Paul, well-meaning stoners in the tradition of Cheech & Chong and
Harold & Kumar, thwart criminal malfeasance even as they ponder the
larger questions, such as, “What steps can I personally take to help
protect the Earth and the species that inhabit it?” (though most
people’s answers to these questions don’t involve sword fights
and hovercrafts).
Joe Daly brings a refreshingly original — and utterly hilarious
— voice to the comics medium, a dry, deadpan wit anchored in everyday
reality combined with unnervingly deranged plots, rendered with a
hyper-detailed, half-realistic and half-cartoony Tintin-style
crispness." -Fantagraphics