PUBLISHERS WEEKLY --Originally published as part of Green's Gunshow webcomic, this story follows a tormented gravedigger's journey toward letting goof the past and finding reasons to keep living-and digging. Green's ghoulishgravedigger has the sickly pallor, hollow eyes, and nasal cavity of a skeleton,and he's being haunted by the ghost of his father, who offers helpful advicelike, "Graves could hold more bones if you dug less like an asshole." Thegravedigger's anger toward his father only intensifies when the ghost makes offwith his late wife's bones, which the gravedigger had been keeping in his house.What follows is a strange, painful subterranean trip to hell and back involvinggelatinous bandits, a mole companion with sage advice, a town of worms, and theexorcising of literal and figurative demons. Green injects plenty of dark humorand cartoon violence into the story (corpses pile up in the gravedigger'sabsence, along with pleading notes from the police), but simmering emotionalanguish is never far from the surface. Green seems keenly aware of theunresolved resentments that many teenagers (and adults) have toward theirparents.