Ghost and Toast

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Ghost and Toast

Phil Corbett

(Piccadilly)

Ghost has arrived at a haunted mansion and isn’t sure what to expect.  Least of all does he expect to find a talking slice of bread.  So, Ghost meets Toast.  One’s dead, the other is bread.  In addition to being dead, Ghost cannot remember a life before becoming a ghost.  His initial questions of Toast do not help him at all.  The unlikely double act have little option than to solve the mystery (but what mystery?).  It soon becomes clear that there are going to be plenty of distractions and meanderings along the way.  These two couldn’t solve their way out of a paper bag.

Furthermore, there are plenty of obstacles in their path, to wherever they are going.  There’s a croissant evil mastermind and a hordes of pastries and baked goods.  There’s also a giant kitten and a gingerbread house.  Whenever they seem to be making progress, the machinating evil genius Croissant pops up again.  Moreover, their ‘landlord’ Mr Borloff keeps reappearing, seemingly benign, but what’s really going on with him?

Ghost and Toast is hilariously bonkers and surreal, undermining all the tropes and cliches of a graphic novel as it hurtles madly to a crazy conclusion.