"Wombat" is a cartoon strip from Vancouver artist Rod Filbrandt and the precursor to his long lived and much loved strip, "Dry Shave." In "Wombat: The Collected Comic Strip" the reader witnesses the development of a cartoon strip and the characters that fill its frames, from its nascent, raw stages, when it first ran in Discorder a UBC Campus paper in the late 1980s, on through numerous growth spurts, to the amazingly polished strides of the early 1990s, and finally to its sad and noirish end in 1994.One can easily see where the artist is going with his extensive cast of louts, drunkards, grifters, drifters, and wanna bes of every stripe. You can almost smell the cast of "Dry Shave" through the blue smoke and beer mist.