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Prepare yourself for a journey into the absurdly meta and hilariously crude world of Jonly Nonly #9 - A Cat's Tail! This issue is uniquely built around a single, perplexing riddle shared with by my late father:

"How do you cut off a cat's tail? You lock him in the basement".

What follows is a mind-bending exploration as the characters, aware they are in a comic, grapple with the riddle's meaning and the nature of their own existence within the panels.

Creator John Horsley III dedicates this issue to his father, J N Horsley Jr., acknowledging the joke's origin and his dad's love for comics. However, don't expect sentimentality; the humor here is raw, unapologetic, and gleefully dives into "dick and fart hoke writer" territory.

Inside this issue, you'll find:

• A Central Mystery: Unpack the infamous "Cat's Tail" riddle that took years for some characters (and even the creator's uncle) to understand.

• Meta Mayhem: Watch as characters like Jeffers literally break out of the comic to confront their creator about lazy writing, repeated jokes, and being depicted as a potential serial killer! The creator himself participates in the chaos via self-aware captions.

• Crude & Dark Humor: Be prepared for "bad jokes", uncomfortable discussions about sex and fathering, and disturbing jokes with explicit "Dahmer vibes". As the credits plainly state, "This whole book is about sex", although they do draw a line, "Except when it's rape. That's bad. Don't do that". A dream sequence features explicit and crude content involving the characters.

• Multiple Bizarre Endings: Experience distinct, and often morbid or sexually-charged, interpretations of the cat's tail riddle as offered by different characters.

• A Touch of Self-Reflection: The comic even features a meta-discussion about its own lack of female representation, referencing the "Bachdel test" and leading to the deliberate introduction of a new female character, K-Dizzle, by the end of the issue.

If you enjoy comics that are unafraid to be crude, darkly funny, and constantly break the fourth wall, diving headfirst into the bizarre relationship between creator and creation, then Jonly Nonly #9 - A Cat's Tail is for you. It's a comic about a riddle, about jokes, about sex, and about the chaotic process of making a comic itself.