Adam Groves, The Fright Site, 11/05/08, http://www.fright.com/edge/mantids.htm gives Mantids a thumbs-up review.  Some excerpts: 

"[Ron Dakron's work] is among the very small cadre of experimental fiction whose substance actually matches its style. . . . [Mantids] is lively and funny, with a spot-on portrayal of the Pacific Northwest punk subculture amid all the insanity--and really: perverted sex, punk rock, Viagra, mutant insects, cannibalism, perpetual erections...what more could you possibly want?"

I'll be reading from Mantids at Wordstock in Portland, OR on Sunday, November 9, 2008, at noon.

Ron Dakron's new novel Mantids, and the new paperback version of Hammers, are available now.