Bughouse #4
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeA series of humorous domestic comedy stories featuring married couples in absurd situations. One narrative follows a plain-clothes officer investigating a domestic disturbance who encounters a quarreling husband and wife, eventually getting caught up in their marital conflict. Another story depicts an elaborate beauty and fitness routine gone comically wrong, with women undergoing various treatments at a gym—including steam baths, makeup applications, and physical exercises—that result in slapstick mishaps and chaos.
A poet fired from his job spirals into a series of violent nightmares that blur dangerously with reality, as his inner self seems to take control—committing murders that match his dreams with unsettling accuracy. Desperate to understand what's happening to him, he seeks help from those around him, only to find himself drawn deeper into a nightmare that the waking world won't let him escape from. In "The Inner Cell-fff!" from Bughouse #4, a man's grip on sanity comes unraveled when the darkest corners of his mind refuse to stay buried.
Colonel Whopper regales a ladies' society with an illustrated lecture about his latest fishing expedition, complete with all the tall-tale mishaps you'd expect—Arctic cold, icebergs, and a frozen sea monster that thaws out mid-voyage. What begins as a creature-versus-man showdown becomes something far more unexpected, as the Colonel's unusual methods turn chaos into salvation and earn him admiration he never bargained for.
Meet Just Plain Bull, a well-meaning barber who can't help but meddle in his neighbors' troubles—even when his interference makes everything worse. When he hears the Joneses are on the outs, Bull decides to play peacemaker, but his nosiness and clumsy attempts to help only fan the flames, leading him from their home straight into an unexpected hospital visit and a chain of consequences he never saw coming. This 1954 tale is a perfect portrait of how good intentions and a loose tongue can turn a simple neighborhood dispute into chaos.
Zoo Zoo's glamorous life takes a chaotic turn when she's cast in a film about a famous artist and finds herself caught between the film's melodramatic storyline and the eccentric director's increasingly ridiculous demands. As scenes spiral from cabaret dancing to portrait posing to unexpected romantic entanglements, Zoo Zoo discovers that keeping up appearances in the entertainment world is far messier than her carefully managed public image suggests. With the Iger Studio's script and art, this seven-page romp through a day in the life of a society darling proves that show business—and matters of the heart—rarely go according to plan.
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