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SIN
CITY |
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including
Sin City
A Dame to Kill For
The Big Fat Kill
That Yellow Bastard
Family Values
Booze, Broads, &
Bullets
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City]’s engaging characters and stunning noir art make it one of the best
(and best-selling) works in the comics field today.”
--The
Onion (Madison, WI)
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FROM
HELL |
| by Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell |
Paperback: 572 pages
EDDIE CAMPBELL
ISBN: 0958578346 |
$35.00
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Amazon.com:
The mad, shaggy genius of
the comics world dips deeply into the well of history and pulls up a cup
filled with blood in From Hell. Alan Moore did a couple of Ph.D.'s worth
of research into the Whitechapel murders for this copiously annotated collection
of the independently published series. The web of facts, opinion, hearsay,
and imaginative invention draws the reader in from the first page. |
| Eddie Campbell's
scratchy ink drawings evoke a dark and dirty Victorian London and help
to humanize characters that have been caricatured into obscurity for decades.
Moore, having decided that the evidence best fits the theory of a Masonic
conspiracy to cover up a scandal involving Victoria's grandson, goes to
work telling the story with relish from the point of view of the victims,
the chief inspector, and the killer--the Queen's physician. His characterization
is just as vibrant as Campbell's; even the minor characters feel fully
real. Looking more deeply than most, the author finds in the "great work"
of the Ripper a ritual magic working intended to give birth to the 20th
century in all its horrid glory. Maps, characters, and settings are all
as accurate as possible, and while the reader might not ultimately agree
with Moore and Campbell's thesis, From Hell is still a great work of literature.
--Rob Lightner
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SOUTHERN-FRIED
HOMICIDE |
| by Michael H. Price |
Black & White
Paperback: 80 pages
Cremo Studios
/ Shel-Tone Publications
ISBN: 0966376609 |
$7.95
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| Michael H. Price's
collaborators include underground comics legend Frank Stack (Adventures
of Jesus), humor high prince Mark Martin, Hollywood historian George Turner,
Mark Evan Walker, Adrian Martinez (Heavy Metal), Don Mangus, Todd Camp,
Dennis Spies, writer John Woolly and the inimitable Spencer Williams, Jr.! |
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| JHONEN
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JOHNNY
THE HOMICIDAL MANIAC
(Director's Cut) |
| by Jhonen Vasquez |
Paperback: 168 pages
Slave Labor Publications
ISBN: 0943151163 |
$19.95
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"Demonically
funny."
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From the Introduction
by Rob Schrab:
"Vasquez has touched something
important here. There's a little monster inside all of us . . . We mustn't
ignore that monster." |
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rule in this collection of issues one through seven of Jhonen Vasquez's
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, as well as material seen before only in Carpe
Noctem magazine. Dark and disturbingly funny, JTHM follows the adventures
of Johnny (you can call him Nny), who lives with a pair of styrofoam doughboys
that encourage his madness, a wall that constantly needs a fresh coat of
blood, and--oh, yeah--his victims in various states of torture. Join Nny
as he frightens the little boy next door (Todd, known to fans of Vasquez's
work as Squee), thirsts for Cherry Brain Freezies, attempts suicide, draws
Happy Noodle Boy, and tries to uncover the meaning of his homicidal existence.
Subliminal meassage: Eat
the peas...
Johnny The Homicidal
Maniac is
far more than an existential-gen-x-goth-gore-comic-book, it's truly a parable
of modern times where the protagonist is at times highly likeable and easy
to identify with; while at other times he's despicable and just not nice...
This work explores Confucian ideas of civility and morality – is chalked
full of artful angles and highly stylized art – boasts an amazing array
of fantastic monologues – and all while indulging a morbid satirical sense
of humor. Something, which adds an interesting perspective, is the fact
that the protagonist is a villain with whom we can identify.
“I'd
hate for Nny (Johnny) to be some one-dimensional monster. There is no doubt
in my mind that he's a villain in a story peopled by slightly less reactionary
villains. I also don't want there to be some convenient origin to his character
that would make us understand how he came to be, thus making us sympathetic
towards his situation.” -- Jhonen Vasquez.
Another most interesting
thing, which this book contains, is its dual perspectives; you may either
see it as the story of a demented schizophrenic or an unlucky subject of
a supernatural mishap, or perhaps something in-between. All in all, this
is an amazing piece of work.
Spooky meassage: The peas
is evil I tells ya! evil! |
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