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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Troublemakersdi Gilbert Hernandez
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Apparently a series of comic adaptations of movies staring a minor Love and Rockets character - the one with the giant breasts. It was oddly compelling even as faces being shot off are not my thing. What is it that's so good about the Henrandez bros? I think those moments when you have an almost childish simplicity (characters leave the building that simply says BANK to signpost what just happened in the plot), the author's weird but real obsessions (like fucking and giant breasts), and then somehow these quite insightful windows on very specific characters. For those unfamiliar with the comic Love and Rockets: Hernandez is the creator of stories set in the fictional Central American town of Palomar. One of his main characters is the absurdly endowed Luba, who has a similarly shaped sister Fritz. Fritz starred in a series of B-movies, and now Hernandez is creating a corresponding series of fotonovela-like graphic novels. This is the second, after the excellent (but deeply disturbing) Chance in Hell. The Troublemakers features four grifters. At the start, one has somehow come into $200,000, and the rest of the story concerns their efforts to con each other out of it. It's never entirely clear, even by the end, who is conning whom, a noir gambit that's often just sloppy writing but is here elevated to a matter of principle. Unlike Chance in Hell, or the recent Citizen Rex serial (not yet collected), there are no science fiction elements here. This makes the complex plot easier to follow -- no time needs to be spent explaining the world of the story. There is a bit of the deliberately crude about Hernandez's graphic style, which some may resist -- Fritz's character is derogated by one of the others as "blimp tits", and that's how she's drawn. For anyone else, and especially for to fans of the Palomar stories, this is an easy recommendation. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Dig this scene! Low-life drug dealer Dewey Booth has $200,000 that even-lower-lifes want. BLING! Wes is a rock and roll loser that only wants to buy a club where nobody can tell him he can't sing or perform. WAILIN'! He's known Dewey for years, but that isn't enough to get his dough. Wes needs help. Nala is an uber-stacked bombshell whose pleasure in life is to seduce and then humiliate men dumb enough to fall for her. HUSH HUSH! For half the dough, she agrees to help Wes get Dewey's ill-gotten goods. Things don't go so well when a wily grifter from Wes's past shows up to complicate things. GULP! Vincene is another troublemaker who enjoys wrecking people's plans and wants the Dewey dough, too. In the end, deadly fires ignite, heads literally roll, eyes are shot out -- and all Wes wants to do is sing in a rock and roll club. The Troublemakers is the second volume in a series of original graphic novels in which Gilbert Hernandez creates comics adaptations of movies starring or co-starring Luba's half-sister Rosalba "Fritz" Martinez from Love and Rockets. The first, the dystopian Chance in Hell (in which Fritz has only a bit part), was released in 2007. This hard boiled, pulp graphic novel will delight longtime Hernandez fans as well as provide a perfect introduction to newcomers to Hernandez's work. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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