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HEAVY
LIQUID |
Written and illustrated by Paul Pope
Cover by Pope |
Paperback: 240 pages
DC Comics
ISBN: 1563896354 |
$29.95
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This stylish
trade paperback collection of the Vertigo miniseries features eclectic
designs and striking 2-color separations.
Set in an unforgettable
sci-fi Manhattan, this post-modern mystery centers on "S," a man addicted
to "heavy liquid," a substance that is both a drug and an artform. |
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From Publishers
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A singular figure on the
comics scene, Pope (One Trick Rip-off) is the rare comics artist who can
move between the opposing worlds of self-published, underground comix and
mainstream, commercial comics, always producing personal works of imagination
with extraordinary graphic skill.
Set in a moodily rendered
New York and Paris about the year 2075, Heavy Liquid is an urban love story
transformed by science fiction into a bracing, futuristic international
crime thriller. It's the story of "S," a former drug agent turned private
investigator and petty criminal. He's addicted to heavy liquid, a mysterious
hallucinatory substance sought after by different characters for its various
properties. A mysterious and wealthy art collector wants it to be cast
in a work of art; a gang of ruthless masked gunmen know that it can be
used as an efficient, powerful explosive; and an equally hard-nosed government
agency knows its shrouded origin and wants the stuff out of circulation.
But S's use of heavy liquid (he cooks it up like heroin and puts drops
in his ear) produces an effect far beyond its mind-bending high: it seems
to produce a powerful, shadow life-form that inhabits his mind and body
or is it just a delusional by-product of heavy liquid's potent high? Pope
has embellished his stylish love story with heart-stopping action and adventure.
But he has also produced a moody fictional essay of urban culture and its
organic, pervasive amalgamation with technology. Pope's drawing and page
design (the book is printed in three eerily manipulated colors) is both
technically assured and wonderfully expressive.
Copyright
2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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MYSTERY THEATRE |
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The
TARANTULA |
by Matt Wagner & Guy Davis
Introduction by Dave Marsh |
Paperback: 112 pages
DC Comics
ISBN: 1563891956 |
$14.95
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The Golden
Age Sandman
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This is is a very fine (non-supernatural)
detective story (this particular book collects #1-4, the complete "Tarantula"
story-arc) based around "The Sandman", a revamped character from the early
days of DC. The Sandman is a guy with a secret identity dressed in a John
Constatine coat, an Al Capone hat, a gasmask and a gaspistol, who acts
as a secret detective and tries to solve crimes his way. |
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kidnapper who calls himself 'The Tarantula, is on the loose and he claims
his vistims rapidly. He shows to be extremely violent and not fearing any
act of brutality to show he's meaning business in getting what he wants.
The police are without a clue and don't know where to start. And does the
Tarantula really pick his victims so randomly ? Meanwhile the commisioners
daughter has taken an interest in a young man named Wesley Dodds who seems
remarkably interested in the case, and there's also the mystery of the
man who's going all over town wearing a gasmask and carying a gaspistol,
attacking people who seem possibly related to the Tarantula. |
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