O No Coronado is an ultra fast-paced, aggres­sive 'head job' of a history lesson. Baldwin (Tribulation 99) propels us into a journey of epic proportions as we follow the phantas­magoric exploits of the Spanish conquistador Coronado in his search for the elusive seven cities of gold. Leaving virtually no rock of found footage unturned, the quasi-real battal­ion of Frisco friars and hungry hedonists scour the South-West devouring all in their path. Coronado is simultaneously a cartoon messiah and Gulliver as Baldwin pokes a farcical finger at contemporary America and its ability to feed capitalism, Catholicism and fame through the wringer so that the world-weary Coronado can return to the New Spain and die in poverty. Unaware that what could have been called Coronado Country now bears the title New Mexico, a state rich in buried nuclear waste, alias 'Fool's Gold'.