The Amazing Screw-On Head is a robot head that screws onto a variety of robot bodies. He works for Abraham Lincoln, fighting supervillains. Apparently? Don't ask me how or why or anything like that. The world, it seems, will never know his secret origins. Because they're secret.

I first encountered the Screw-On Head in animated form in 2006, in what was, I believe, a pilot episode for a series that never got made. I was very sorry about that last part, because it was weird and wonderful and WTFish, and I'm pretty sure my exact words when I finished it were, "I have no idea what I just watched, but I want more of it." I learned that it was based on a graphic novel, and decided I must get hold of that at some point, but I never came across it, and the whole thing faded into what felt like some sort of strange fever dream. Until now!

This collection includes the original graphic novel version, which is just as weird and wonderful and WTFish. I still don't know what I just read, and I still want more, which, frustratingly, is not forthcoming.

Also included are several short, equally weird dark fairy tale things, at least one of which is vaguely related to the Screw-On Head story, and a longer, also tangentially related Victorian sci-fi horror thing, which I didn't vibe with quite as much, but which was still interestingly bizarre and stylish. ( )