Rockabilly

Mike Wilson leads us on a hair-raising journey into the high-color American night. A meteor crashes into greaser Rockabilly's backyard, setting off a ripple of strange events. The tattoo of a pin-up girl on his back comes to life and begins to exert her murderous control over the suburb. His precocious teenage neighbor, Suicide Girl, who likes to longingly spy on him from her bedroom window, starts lactating. Get the breast pump and the cigarettes. Now her pet lizard has gone missing. Meanwhile, an invalid with a condition called "facial cranial infantilism" begins to act like the disturbed man everyone expects him to be, pacing the block to quiet his unseemly thoughts. The only one whose head is on straight tonight seems to be Bones, the neighborhood dog. The tattoo enables him to think human thoughts and begin to hatch a plan. With economic language and well-crafted pacing, Wilson's...