Lillian Ansell’s cover art to the fifth issue of Cram Comics gives us a partial idea of what to expect: a nude Bacchus sings while drunkenly slouching amidst a pastoral scene, all rendered in a loose style of cartooning straight out of a 1960s underground comic. Alas, real life (and slice-of-life comic strips) cannot be relied upon to provide conclusions as straightforward as those of movie formula. Cram #5 also has some strips that take the broad theme as an opportunity to celebrate outright oddness. As with all the more surreal offerings in the issue, the relevance of the narrative to the overarching theme is ambiguous. That detail of the story occurring between the lines is central to how Cram handles its romantic themes.