Today’s Unshelved Book Club comic of John Gardner’s Grendel comes to us from our hirsute friend Randy Milholland, author of the comic strip Something Positive, which is alternately heartfelt, offensive, insightful, crass, and sweet, sometimes all at the same time. Randy helped save our bacon by drawing this great book talk while Bill was out of town. Please thank Randy by becoming his newest, biggest fan.

Elsewhere in this week’s Unshelved Book Club you’ll find books about Jonathan Goldstein, bad males, romance from a male perspective, being creative, two rich men competing to outdo each other, simple crafts, monsters in the ocean depths, and adults.