Levy's Law: The Whole Megillah - Book Two

Levy’s Law brought workplace situation comedy elements into a daily comic strip. It centered on Ann Levy, a young, single woman beginning her career as a police officer. Ann was the cool center of a solar system orbited by an unconventional cast of supporting characters: Sarge O’Brian, who gave a new meaning to “Black Irish;” Pookie, her best pal and aspiring writer; Alan Gold, lawyer and Ann’s on-again off-again boyfriend and nature’s most perfect victim; Harv Ditko, Ann’s neighbor and delusional ladies man; Rob Levy, Ann’s Korean rabbi brother; and lest we forget, Ann’s Fairy Godmother—let’s just say she’s never going to be employee of the month. Setting Levy’s Law apart from other strips was the use of character back stories. Almost every criminal, and most of their victims, had a story. This added depth to the daily gag comic strip genre. Commentary includes the tale of the attempts to turn Levy’s Law into a live action sitcom—without Ann, any of the strip’s characters or even the title. What were they thinking?! THE GREAT ATOMIC AFTERMATH AND FRESH FRUIT FESTIVAL It wasn’t your everyday science fiction comic strip. Sure, Buck Rogers had rockets and ray guns, but TGAA&FFF had sex! The premise was simple: a nuclear holocaust wipes out all of humanity except for Fred, the meek man who inherits the Earth. Next, there’s Hadley, the second-to -last man on Earth, an IRS agent there to collect the inheritance tax. Completing the core cast was the last woman on Earth, Sister Maria Theresa. Added to that, there were giant mutated fruits and vegetables. Finally—because the strip didn’t last that long—there were the remnants of the U.S. government, bureaucrats whose minds stuck into robot bodies that lacked a certain something due to a tiny design flaw. (Okay, the government was castrated; do we really have to spell it out for you?) As an added bonus, this collection includes the original, unedited versions of strips that the syndicate changed. Let’s just say that most of the changes were not for the better. TGAA&FFF was also where the author started using identifiable Jewish characters—something that he continued with his next syndicated strip. But wait, there’s more! Volume two contains the original college version of TGAA&FFF. And if that isn’t enough, the second volume also presents samples from the author’s unsold strips.