And now for something considerably different, courtesy of IDW and Top Shelf: The Unpetables, a new graphic novel for young folks from Dennis Messner. “Pigmund and Lizárdo are free! They recently “declared independence” from their petting zoo…. and now this pot-bellied pig and iguana are out to See The World. They are The Unpetables — and they’re available for temporary work as ‘freelance pets’. But no matter what gigs the Unpetables may get, they have one very big rule: No More Petting!” You heard it here folks. And, it’s available now in trade paperback from Penguin Random House.

image c. 2024 Top Shelf Productions

Many readers of AFF will have read the strange case of lizards feeding themselves after their owner suddenly died, where typically large and carnivorous reptiles helped themselves to the dead owner after not being fed for a few days, but also this week was the case of a normally vegetarian iguana accidentally biting off the finger tip of it's 14 year old owner. Unlike the seven scavanging monitors, the 5 foot iguana was shot by the police.