Bad Weekend

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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JUST IN TIME FOR CONVENTION SEASON-the ultimatecomic con crime tale! Comics won't justbreak your heart. Comics will just kill you.Hal Crane should know, he's been aroundsince practically the beginning. Stuck at an out-of-town convention, waiting toreceive a lifetime achievement award, Hal's weekend takes us on a dark ridethrough the secret history of a medium that's always been haunted by crooks,swindlers, and desperate dreamers. BADWEEKEND-the story some are already calling the comic of the year from itsserialization in CRIMINAL #2 and 3-has been expanded, with several newscenes added and remastered into a hardcover graphic novel, in the same formatas BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS' (KILL OR BE KILLED,FATALE, CRIMINAL) bestselling MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEENJUNKIES. This gorgeous package is a must-have, an evergreen graphic novelevery true comics fan will want toown.Collects CRIMINAL #2-3 with expandedcontent

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-07-16
Mått178 x 254 x 12 mm
Vikt390 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Läsålder15+
Antal sidor72
FörlagImage Comics
ISBN9781534314405

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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY -- The lauded crime comics team ofBrubaker and Phillips (My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies) take a meta approachwith a hard-boiled mystery set at a comics convention. Cartoonist Hal Crane, "acollection of bad habits and worse moods," is traveling to an event clearlybased on the San Diego Comic-Con to receive a lifetime achievement award, andhis former art assistant Jacob, now a detective, is hired to escort him. The twoare quickly embroiled in a mystery involving stolen art, murder, and decades ofindustry feuds. Set in 1997, when the comics speculation boom of the '90s wasgoing bust and comic books were at a sales peak but a creative nadir, theperiod's perfect for a tale rife with creative frustration, seedy backroomdeals, and betrayal. It helps that the creators know the behind-the-scenesworkings of the comic convention inside and out, which lends verisimilitude, asdoes the semifictional comics history they tell, a blend of reality, gossip (didan inker really get work by procuring sex workers for his editors?), and pureimagination. Phillips's art looks heavily photo-referenced, but poses andlayouts that would be stiff in a lesser artist's hands fly by as realistic,while still loose and lively, in his practiced lines. Brubaker proves againthat, as in the words of legendary creator Jack Kirby, "Comics will break yourheart," as he digs under the colorful surface of his setting and touches oninjustices within the industry.