This review of Bohda Te by Jamie Smart at Thulhu Guu Super Nice isn't positive, but it kind of seems like an endorsement to me anyway:

I would never have knowingly purchased this. I hate things like this. Dancing, singing poo that can combine to become a giant mecha dookie, a monkey suffering tourette’s becomes a WMD when witnessing violence, the world’s angriest robot, and a little girl that makes things explode by touching them - no no no. I want none of it. I can barely believe I read all of it. It’s complete nonsense. NONSENSE!

I am forever scarred by these cute, little characters in their cute little panels. I was expecting this to be horror. To some extend I got it, just not how I wanted. I have never felt such terror at nonsensical, foul-mouthed cuteness.

Bohda Te is too much nonsense for someone who writes a blog called Thulhu Guu Super Nice! (Not that I have anything against Mr. or Ms. Thulhu Guu Super Nice for not liking Bohda Te -- if you're not expecting Jamie Smart, Jamie Smart can be really disconcerting -- suddenly there's poo and vomit and British slang everywhere, and you're not sure how it happened.) Or maybe the review is positive? Are there layers of irony here? I don't know. All I can say is sometimes you don't get what you expect, and you now have been warned about Bohda Te.

- JdG

Graig Kent reviews Bohda Te at Rack Raids: "There’s not a lot of logic to the comic, but its whimsically and gratuitously irreverent characters and story structure somehow come together to make a whole that is, if not sensical, still quite satisfying."

Bohda Te is by Jamie Smart, creator of Bear and Ubu Bubu, and Kent respects this fact by mentioning Jamie's name four times while only mentioning Jhonen Vasquez's three. Good show of restraint there, sir.

There was a new one-shot by Jamie Smart in stores yesterday!



Bohda Te by Jamie Smart

There is a place not on any map, a place only found by those who stumble upon it. The lost, the alone, the forgotten and the rejected. They say this place holds terrible secrets, horrific brutalities, and something sinister snaking beneath the ground. They say creatures wander this land. They say you can never come back. They call it Bohda Te.

Sabrina Peyton reviews Ubu Bubu #1 at Fractal Matter: "All in all a fun romp especially if you like cats, demons and torturing small children."

Two of the employees at San Francisco's ultra-cool comics lounge Isotope are reading Ubu Bubu #1 this week, too. It is the single issue to have at this moment in time, and if you do not have it, you are missing out. Fortunately, you can get it at your local comic book store or at the SLG online store.

Want more? DO YOU WANT MORE?! Well then: Jamie Smart is interviewed about his upcoming one-man anthology, Bohda Te at Pulse. Jamie talks about why he makes comics: "I think some people in life find their means of escape from the world in creating art, and if they find the real world to be an intimidating place, the art they create will reflect that. It will touch on the darker things we all know, and in my case, make fun of them. Maybe it’s a way of dealing. Maybe I just like drawing faeces with faces and making them dance."

A Melange of Madness in Bohda Te
New Jamie Smart Comic from SLG in March