Week 6

Mr. Natural is a comic created by Robert Crumb. The comic centers around a character that is sort of poking fun at the idea of god. He is depicted in his likeness and goes on wild, sometimes offensive adventures. The passages I read, I could see why they were banned. The first revolved around Mr. Natural attempting to bother a monk like character who was on the street panning for money, he screws it up for him allowing a poor black family (depicted in minstrel style) to take advantage of him. In the end he has to leave and is put into an asylum because Mr. Natural drove him crazy. Another I recall is the comic where he adopts a woman-bodied infant & has sex with her multiple times. Personally, I'm all for underground comics...but in my opinion they should be underground for a more productive reason. I read some other underground comics listed, like the ones revolving around gay experience and I can see why they were banned but they also had some substance to them haha. I feel that Mr. Natural is a lot of shock value humor that isn't necessarily acceptable today. It's very strange and I guess kind of pointless to read unless you're entertained by that kind of humor. I am to an extent but at the same time I just wonder what the point of it all is.