The Filth up to Chap 7

In the beginning I was a little lost what with the leaking parapersonality, afros, toupees, and The Hand. As his adventures continue though I find it easier to read if I just accept that there are gigantic killing sperm and the like. It's nothing worse then what I read in The Ticket anyways. In comparison, The Filth isn't that bad at all.
When the I-Life where introduced I started thinking of how it related to humans. They are helpful to their host as long as there is a supply of energy, but as modeled by Doctor Soon's death, when this supply runs out they consume what is available. The majority of humans on Earth are consuming its resources without a second thought. There are no sentimental feelings for that which makes it possible for us to even exist.
Speaking of sentimental feelings, I have found myself hoping the Tony the cat gets better. Every time Slade returns from a trip Tony looks worse. He has to make a choice between cleaning up the filth of the world and protecting the reality most people live in or let the filth fester and take care of Tony. That cat is Slade's only attachment to the 'real' world. When I say 'real' I mean 'the world that is most familiar to the reader'. This distinction has to be made because the definition of 'real' is 'actual rather than imaginary'. For The Hand to exist and for the world of Greg to exist one must be false. Up to chapter 6 The Hand is believed to be the real 'real'. In chapter 7 this is questioned though. Could he be imaging it all? Is The Hand only in his imagination? If so then the deteriorating health of Tony is because of his neglect while he acts out these fanciful adventures in his mind.
Other things that caught my attention while reading were The Crab and the people altering the story line of a comic book by free falling into it. Comic book characters altering the world of other comic book characters, hilarious. I wonder if they would be so quick to alter the events in the other comic book if they realized they were a comic book as well. What would happen to the comic book inside a comic book if it realized what was going on? My hopes for the chapters to come are that the characters in the comic inside a comic rebel and have war on the characters outside the comic.