"Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down." Little Fires Everywhere opens with Mrs. Beginning with her opening sentence, Celeste Ng ( Everything I Never Told You) more than delivers on that promise, immediately igniting the tension and questions that engulf this captivating novel of one family's inner dysfunction and the careless destruction they inflict upon others. With a title like Little Fires Everywhere, one expects drama. Dave Wheeler, associate editor, Shelf Awareness Crude, lewd and melodramatic, Henry & Glenn answers a question no one else thought to ask, in comics to be cherished forever and ever.
Conjuring an intimate portrait of Morrissey between them, Henry and Glenn decide in unison, "NO!" And instead choose an even more unusual solution to their marital woes. Meanwhile, "People post unflattering pictures n' videos of me on the Internet." As they address the emotional and psychological imbalances, the therapist suggests inviting a complementary third into their relationship. In a moment of meta-awareness, their conflict stems from the release of a 2010 booklet called Henry & Glenn Forever that has reignited Glenn's jealousy over Henry's public successes.
One highlight written and drawn by Ed Luce features Henry and Glenn in couples' counseling. Drawn in varying styles, they loosely revolve around the couple, Glenn's complicated relationship with his mother, Satanist neighbors John Hall and Daryl Oates, the grotesqueries of metal and the pervasiveness of modern ennui. Spawning from their moody domesticity is a veritable River Styx of wacky comic strips. Perhaps as a result, history will remember these black, oozy romantic vignettes as the greatest love story ever told: Henry & Glenn Forever + Ever: The Completely Ridiculous Edition (Microcosm, $25.95). Now their publisher has issued the complete anthology, with 16 never-before seen pages. For years, Igloo Tornado has cobbled together bizarre, hilarious zines on their strange but sweet subject. And no, they did not authorize any of this. Yes, that's hunky Henry Rollins astride a motorcycle with his brooding life partner, Glenn Danzig, as though they were Tom of Finland pinups. In that vein, Tom Neely asked his artist collective, Igloo Tornado, to envision what happens when two metalheads fall in love and move to the suburbs. In the realm of slash fiction, fans say they "ship it" when idle chatter proposes an imagined relationship between two cult figures.
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