NP...except in how almost everything relates. With SPOILER

[Mark Kohut]

We all remember how one thematic strand in Pynchon, most visible perhaps
in Against the Day, is about the simple enjoyment of a day, eating, being alive?
The picnic basket in the Airship and, as one plister wrote lyrically, that big
community picnic where everyone talked of the food they made and traded 
potato salad recipes?.....(by the way, anyone have a good one made w/out
mayo?, write me offlist.....)

so, I'm reading the Harvey Pekar-edited Best American Comics 2006 and
Jack Riddy has The Amazing Life of Onion Jack in it.  As I warned,

TOTAL SPOILER:

a story in which Onion Jack lands in America like Superman--crashed rocket--
and is raised by stepparents from earlier in the 20th Century.............

As a boy he wants to be a chef, but, see, he has these superpowers......so,
uses them with other interesting unique superheroes not known by me (or anyone,
I think, the point)....

all told in stick figure drawings until the NAZI WAR MACHINE villain which is 
vanquished
with superhero help almost between panels, so to speak and it is now well past 
the WW2 or so and Onion Jack and
his colleagues are sitting around talking of the postwar years------"Yeah, now 
it is all about
predicting and preventing dystopian futures and it makes my head spin", says 
Onion.........

So he decides it is time to retire....then in the last few panels, we see his 
funeral and
hear them talk of him, in fact his MAJOR OBIT.................................

THE MOST RENOWNED CHEF OF HIS TIMES, OF THE LAST FIFTEEN YEARS, "OUR MOZART", 
WHO REVOLUTIONIZED FOOD FROM  FINE DINING THRU PREPARED MEALS .....
WHOSE CAREER DID NOT EVEN START UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT AT SEVENTY-FIVE. 
EARLIER, HE HAD BEEN IN LAW ENFORCEMENT.................

Loved it.