If you're looking for laughs you've arrived. McNickle's newest work is a book of humorous stories and essays, and one thing you can be sure of, other than you'll laugh, is there are no deep thoughts.

(Unfortunately there is also no nudity, though there will be some in his next book, tentatively titled Nudity, Yeah!) Most people would've stopped at 29 humorous essays, but McNickle pushed on. This has 30.

And none of them are long! In this overtly delightful work, McNickle gives us the Texas Declaration of Independence (in case it's needed someday), an analysis of Wonder Woman's most unusual punch, and a journey into the disappointment he has (and bets you share) with the name of the world's second-highest mountain. As if that weren't enough, and it's not, McNickle also points out why it's probably good that he wasn't Abraham Lincoln, he takes a crack at the obvious need for a new curse word, and he includes his controversial letter to the Pope, which would've been even more controversial had it ever been mailed.

McNickle's book is both widely appealing and wildly original. Other encomiums also apply.

As if that weren't enough, and it isn't, the book has deeply witty drawings by illustrator and Emmy-winning animator Michael Diederich. .