Three unemployed slackers find themselves embroiled in an unusual
dispute with their new neighbors: Carole and her weeping mother. When
the shabby Carlisle intervenes, he incurs the wrath of their
landlord--the silent, grinning embodiment of evil, Mr. Stapleton--and
his mute minion son, Craig. As Mr. Stapleton's malign influence spreads
to his housemates, Carlisle takes the fight to his enemy and realizes he
must sacrifice his life to save the world. Owing more to William Blake
than to Stephen King, this brooding, unnerving, and absurdist graphic
novel deliberately shuns the conventional genre of blood and gore in
favor of freak falls of licorice candy, cherubim in cowboy suits, and
narcotic cavity-wall insulation.