A review by brucefarrar
Inspector Flytrap by Tom Angleberger, Cece Bell

5.0

Angleberger’s text is stuffed full of word play and jokes: running jokes, plant jokes, animal jokes, grody snot jokes, pirate jokes, and grand groan worth puns in this delightfully silly tale of a plant detective and his assistant goat, Nina, an overachieving omnivorous gourmand. The text is enlivened by Bell witty illustrations. In her portraits of the protagonist detective, a Venus flytrap, she’s given him a pair of googly eyes, this with his large trap mouth makes him resemble a green vegetable version of Cookie Monster, however, although he snacks on a few flies in this volume, he is no match for his all consuming assistant. So, yes, there are also lots of goats-will-eat-anything-and-everything jokes. And all this nuttiness concludes with a frantic chase scene and a satisfactory romantic dénouement.

A note for readers of the Kindle edition:
Bell’s witty drawings are best seen in the landscape format. The exceptions to this are her one page comics which are best viewed in an enlarged portrait format. This means an occasional device reorienting as well as page flipping for the full enjoyment of this gem of comic wackiness.