Her storytelling is developing fast, but needs a bit more work. Anyway, Basil is born one day in a fantastic world, heads to the city, interacts with a series of strange mentors, discovers sex, discovers violence, discovers friendship, discovers betrayal, discovers sex some more.
Cooper has one hell of a visual imagination, that's for sure.
He goes where Herriman and Howard Cruse only hint. Thematically, it's powerful stuff, but it makes Woodring's decision to eschew word balloons look wise. And to my mind, Cooper doesn't know which way he wants it.