Monday Morning (Wo)Man vs. Cephalopod Moment

(Judy Drood take on Aunt Azalea's pet killer octopus in the pages of Richard Sala' Mad Night, published by Fantagraphics in 2005. And yes, it's the same octopus that previously killed that poor pirate gal)

Reminder: Judy Drood is awesome

That's one and one-third pages of Richard Sala's Mad Night, which everyone who hasn't already read it should go read immediately, while those of us who have already read it should probably go read it again. Reading or re-reading Sala's Mad Night seems an infinitely better use of all of our free time than reading anything on the Internet right now.

Judy Drood, Girl Detective

She swears.





A lot.





She wears a dagger in a sheath on her thigh.






And she knows how to use it.





She beats up douchebag teenagers.




A lot.




And, perhaps most importantly, she knows exactly how to deal with clowns:





And if that doesn't work...




(All badly scanned images from Fantagraphics' The Grave Robber's Daughter by Richard Sala)