Captain Bluebear lives twenty-seven lives, and this account covers the first thirteen and a half of them. Walter Moers sends his blue-furred hero across Zamonia, a continent where sandstorms come in perfect squares and intelligence spreads like a contagious disease. Bluebear washes up among tiny rescuers, drifts through a forest that feeds on the gullible, studies under a know-it-all professor with seven brains, and keeps outrunning boredom and death in equal measure. Moers fills the pages with his own drawings and a comic imagination that never sits still. John Brownjohn's English translation carries the relentless wordplay across intact.