All your favorite characters are jammed-packed in this 12th installment of Family Messings: Getting Dirty with the Goodbye Family by Lorin Morgan-Richards. As the vampire bat flu dissipates thanks to Rusty Potts immunity rich saliva, Sheriff Orphie can focus on the other rare birds that lurk in the town of Nicklesworth: a wild election, Rowdy Rose inspires a new movement, Souq meets his match, Slug goes clubbing, Lou Steed tries to sell you a pinto pony, Frank Thorne gets a new saddle and other hilarities that will have you choking on your grannies biscuits. Readers will also enjoy horses gone wild and scary stories of the frontier.

The Goodbye Family are a family of undertakers from the Old Weird West of author and illustrator Lorin Morgan-Richards. The family includes Pyridine Goodbye, matriarch and mortician, Otis, father and hearse driver, their daughter Orphie, who is both a gravedigger and Sheriff, along with pets: Ouiji the cat, Dorian the tarantula, and their horse Midnight.