I do not know what is worse, the artwork or the story line. This graphic novel is so crude and mean to everyone that it has forever ruined a favorite part of my childhood. This is a much darker version of the Flintstones than I have ever seen. They start off with a type of race wars where the Flintstones race is better than neanderthals. They make fun of them and try to trick them into doing the work they do not want to. There is a running joke about veteran suicide. That is not something to joke about, and I find it highly inappropriate. Lots of jokes about marriage. It’s opposite of the H8 fight as where no one should get married and the only the crazy do. How about the jokes on religion. Now I like a good religious joke now and then. But notice I said good, not a joke about worshiping the vacuum cleaner. Then, it’s the end of the world as they know it.

This entire book is the end of the Flintstones as I know it. The moist heartfelt part of the entire graphic novel is a conversation between the vacuum cleaner and the bowling ball. The rest is high school jock turned forty year old curmudgeon antics and byplay. It’s not worth the read. This version of the Flintstones tries to hard to be Schwarzenegger and completely lost it’s John Goodman fun and heart. Leave it at home, or bet yet, don’t waist your clams.