The glass door says "pull", but the mayor is pushing, and he's getting blisters. This he tells to a passing policeman who offers help: "Blisters . . . plenty of them." But the cop hears wrong, and he shouts, "We need blasters! Twenty of them", to the gathering crowd. The crowd hears "disaster", and mass panic ensues. So it goes in Tangle Town. Cyrus's first book creates good slaphappy wordplay and his illustrations aptly convey both the frantic behavior of the crowd and the bird's nest of streets, overpasses, and buildings that make up this twisted city.