Met name in
Gangreen 1, Black Venus (1968) is de missie op de achtergrond aanwezig als een door de ikfiguur verfoeide moralistische instelling.
His first novel was entitled Ik ben maar een neger (1962; But I am black), but he became a household name in Belgium with his novel
Gangreen 1: Black Venus, which was accused of being both racist and pornographic.
He has repeatedly voiced his shame at appearing in this daft yarn of how mad scientist Professor
Gangreen cooks up the second coming of the Great Tomato Uprising, when music converted tomatoes into human form to wage war on mankind.
in fact describes the signs of plague as currency: "those Spots they call'd the Tokens were really
gangreen Spots, or mortified Flesh in small Knobs as broad as a little silver Peny" (p.
Players can join Buttercup in a series of adventures as she dodges obstacles, rescues citizens, collects power-ups and combats such evil scoundrels as Fuzzy Lumpkins and the notorious
Gangreen Gang.