The Last One

Title: The Last One

Genre: Fantasy

Story: J.M. Dematteis

Art: Dan Sweetman

Publisher: Vertigo

Year: 1993

Issues: 01-06 of 06

Rate: 95/100

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PROMO: Myrwann is the last of the immortals, driven by a need to help save lost souls. From his home in New York’s East Village, he takes in the lonely, the abused, or the forgotten, healing them when he can...but at what cost to himself? By award-winning writer J.M. DeMatteis (HERO SQUARED, JUSTICE LEAGUE, MOONSHADOW).

Waking

Title: Waking

Genre: Horror

Story: Raven Gregory

Art: Vic Drujiniu

Publisher: Zenescope Entertainment

Year: 2010

Issues/Pages: 01-04 of 04

Rate: 80/100

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PROMO: From the writer of Zenescope's smash hit Wonderland trilogy, and Image Comics' THE GIFT, comes Raven Gregory's newest tale of horror. In the big city, police detectives investigating routine murders discover that the victims of these crimes are coming back from the dead in search of those responsible for ending their lives.

Now the detectives are in a race against time to find the source of the recent 'waking's' before the victims deal out their own brand of bloody justice. Meanwhile, a father with an incredible ability must choose between avenging his daughter's death or losing her forever. Check out what is sure to be one of the freshest new takes on the zombie mythos in 2010.

The Tragical Comedy Or Comical Tragedy Of Mr. Punch

Title: The Tragical Comedy Or Comical Tragedy Of Mr. Punch

Story: Neil Gaiman

Art: Dave McKaen

Publisher: Vertigo

Year: 1994

Issues/Pages: 98 pages

Rate: 92/100

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PROMO: A dark and frightening fully painted novella, MR. PUNCH tells the tale of a young boy's loss of innocence results from a horrific confrontation with his past. Spending a summer at his grandfather's seaside arcade, a troubled adolescent harmlessly becomes involved with a mysterious Punch and Judy Man and a mermaid-portraying woman. But when the violent puppet show triggers buried memories of the boy's family, the lives of all become feverishly intertwined. With disturbing mysteries and half-truths uncontrollably unraveling, the young boy is forced to deal with his family's dark secrets of violence, betrayal, and guilt.

Groom Lake

Title: Groom Lake

Genre: Sci-Fi

Story: Chris Ryall

Art: Ben Templesmith

Publisher: IDW Publishing

Issues: 01-04 of 04

Year: 2009

Rate: 81/100

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PROMO: The truth is out… er, under there? In the remote Nevada desert there sits a dry lakebed called Groom Lake, and under that land resides a secret base that holds all the secrets of the world. Not this world, either. Writer Chris Ryall and artist Ben Templesmith present a four-part tale of abductions and probings, conspiracies and secrets. And the key to it all is held in the grey, six-fingered hand of one Ng Hudson. 

Sin City: The Hard Goodbye

Title: Sin City - The Hard Goodbye

Genre: Neo-Noir

Story & Art: Frank Miller

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Pages: 200

Year: 1993

Rate: 90/100

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PROMO: The first volume of the crime-comic megahit that introduced the now-infamous character Marv and spawned a blockbuster film returns in a newly redesigned edition, with a brand-new cover by Frank Miller - some of his first comics art in years! It's a lousy room in a lousy part of a lousy town. But Marv doesn't care. There's an angel in the room. She says her name is Goldie. A few hours later, Goldie's dead without a mark on her perfect body, and the cops are coming before anyone but Marv could know she's been killed. Somebody paid good money for this frame . . . With a new look generating more excitement than ever before, this third edition is the perfect way to attract a whole new generation of readers to Frank Miller's masterpiece!

Xenoholics

Title: Xenoholics

Genre: Sci-Fi

Story: Joshua Williamson

Art: Seth Damoose

Publisher: Image Comics

Issues: 01-05 of 05

Year: 2011-2012

Rate: 84

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PROMO: Are you addicted to aliens? Late night Encounters? Abductions? Probes? The XenoHolics are here to help!

Because everyone thinks they're a bunch of nutcases, a support group that claims aliens abducted them try to prove that aliens are real. But that's much easier said than done and they find themselves caught up in not just ONE government conspiracy, but TWO. Oh, yeah and along the way they learn who is lying about being abducted? and who is telling the truth. 

Presenting a twisted new series about aliens and the crazy people who believe in them, by creators JOSHUA WILLIAMSON (Superman/Batman, DEAR DRACULA), and SETH DAMOOSE (I HATE GALLANT GIRL) with covers by DAN DUNCAN (TMNT)

Drain

Title: Drain

Genre: Horror

Story: C.B.Cebulski

Art: Sana Takeda

Publisher: Image Comics

Issues: 01-06 of 06

Year: 2006-2008

Rate: 85/100

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PROMO: Her clan destroyed, her family murdered by vampires, Chinatsu, a once-proud female ninja, had nothing left to live for - save revenge! In this centuries-spanning tale of bloodlust and betrayal, Chinatsu, now a vampire herself, tracks the dark lord that turned her all those long years ago. Immortality has only made her need for vengeance stronger as she hunts him across the globe, through myriad time periods, battling the undead minions that rise up to stop her!

City of Dust

Title: City of Dust

Genre: Sci-Fi

Story: Steve Niles

Art: Zid

Publisher: Radical Comics

Issues: 01-05 of 05

Year: 2008-2009

Rate: 80/100

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PRMO: From the dark mind of legendary horror writer Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) comes a story set in the aftermath of our world's collapse. Records show the Earth once known was consumed by religious wars, spurred by the suppression of free thought and where creative expression is now viewed as the rot and infestation of the mind. This chilling vision of the future unveils a world where the police now patrol for crimes of the imagination, or Mind Crimes as their called. This beliefs, along with any tales of false heroes, idols or gods, are illegal. Special detective Philip Khrome doesn't enforce Imagination, instead he works in homicide; thats where the action is, and he has seen it all before. But criminals evolve and the world is forever changing. When a killing spree hits his department, Khrome finds himself face-to-face with a perpetrator who has merged reality with superstition, something is not what it seems. This enemy of folklore will require old-fashioned detective techniques to bring to justice, but the only problem is it will take one's imagination to find the source of this new evil.

Wolfskin

Title: Wolfskin

Genre: Fantasy

Story: Warren Ellis

Art: Juan Jose Ryp

Publisher: Avatar Press

Issues: 01-03 of 03

Year: 2006-2007

Rate: 78/100

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PROMO: Before history was recorded in stone and ink, some men wrote it in blood! From the time before history began... from the time when the continents were still connected by land... from the harsh climes at the top of the world, a Northish soldier wrapped in a cape of wolfpelts walks south, into the forests of the High Midlands that are now Europe, to find a village cut in two by travelers from the East. Soon, he too is torn - between duty to the lives he has ruined just by finding them, and duty to the hideous murder-god of the Northish wastes and the berserker drugs that are his sacrament!

Preacher: Gone to Texas

Title: Preacher - Gone to Texas

Genre: Horror

Story: Garth Ennis

Art: Stive Dillon

Publisher: Vertigo

Issues: Preacher issues 01-07 of 66, complete Vol.1

Rate: 92/100

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PROMO: What do a preacher, a hitwoman and an Irish vampire all have in common? Not much, except that they're on a quest to find God. They're not on a spiritual quest either. It seems that God has vacated the throne of Heaven and He's slumming around on Earth. This is the first volume of Garth Ennis's and Steve Dillon's fan-favorite comic series.

Locke and Key: Head Games

Title: Locke and Key - Head Games

Genre: Horror

Story: Joe Hill

Art: Gabriel Rodrigues

Publisher: IDW Publishing

Issues: 01-06 of 06

Year: 2009

Rate: 94/100

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PROMO: New York Times bestselling writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez, the creators behind the acclaimed Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft, return with the next chapter in the ongoing tale, Head Games. Following a shocking death that dredges up memories of their father's murder, Kinsey and Tyler Locke are thrown into choppy emotional waters, and turn to their new friend, Zack Wells, for support, little suspecting Zack's dark secret. Meanwhile, six-year-old Bode Locke tries to puzzle out the secret of the head key, and Uncle Duncan is jarred into the past by a disturbingly familiar face. Open your mind - the head games are just getting started!

Locke and Key: Welcome to Lovecraft

Title: Locke and Key - Welcome to Lovecraft

Genre: Horror

Story: Joe Hill

Art: Gabriel Rodrigez

Publisher: IDW Publishing

Issues: 01 to 06 of 06 

Year: 2008

Rate: 93/100

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PROMO: Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box) creates an all-new story of dark fantasy and wonder: Locke & Key. Written by Hill and featuring astounding artwork from Gabriel Rodriguez (Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show, Beowulf), Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them.... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all...

Athena Inc.

Title: Athena Inc. 

Genre: Sci-Fi/Cyberpunk

Story: Brian Haberlin

Art: Jay Anacleto

Publisher: Image Comics

Issues: 00-06 of 06

Year: 2002

Rate: 87/100

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PROMO: Athena Inc., the blackest of black ops, has come up with the perfect operative - she can't be caught. And even if she could be, there is no way to link her to any action, because she doesn't even know she's an agent. She was hailed as a success, until the genetic trigger than enables her to switch personas began to break down. Now that she can switch forms on her own, she has become a threat to internal security and must be dealt with. But who will deal with whom first?


REVIEW: Danas kada je svaka priča ispričana milion miliona puta, kada je sve rečeno i prežvakano i dovedeno do besmisla, čak i najmanja naznaka originalnosti ili proste različitosti od glavnog toka je dovoljna da skrene pažnju. 
Athena Inc. ne donosi nešto posebno na polju narativa - to jeste priča ispričana na nekim drugim mestim, jer kako čak i sam glavni lik stripa kaže: "Zamilsite Bonda i Džekila i Hajda spojene", dodajte tome malo sajberpanka i X-Mena i to vam je to. Pod okriljem new age religije, duboko pod zemljom, operativan je Manhunter Project - jedinica veštački konstruisanih super-ljudi, špijuna i ubica dvostrukog identiteta (jednopg lažnog, stvorenog za svakodnevni život i drugi, stvarni, potreban za posao, koji se aktivira na poziv, pred misiju). Kada granice između ta dva odvojena identiteta počnu da slabe kod naše heroine - Meri/Gven, počinje i naša priča...
Ipak, kao što rekoh, vizuelnp je ono gde Athena Inc. zavređuje vremena i novca. Strip je monohromatski - predivnog, bezmalo foto-realističnog crteža, oplemenjenog jednom jedinom bojom, koja zavisi od likova prisutnih na konkretnoj strani, kao i situacije u kojoj se nalaze. Svakako lepše izgleda na delu, nego kada se pokušava rečima dočarati, pe ćete i sami videti par shotova. Takođe, na strani drugačijeg je i način na koji je prezentovan dijalog, za razliku od klasičnih "balona", ovde imamo tekst koji smeštena sa strane slika, pa sve više nalikuje klasičnijoj drami kojoj crteži služe tek da zamene tekst u zagradama koji pojašnjava situaciju na sceni.

Mana je "to be continued" rečenica na kraju stripa, a nedostatak tog nastavka...

Indigo Vertigo

Title: Indigo Vertigo

Genre: Avant-garde(?), Bullshit(!)

Story: KatieJane Garsie

Art: Dan Schaffer

Publisher: Image Comics

Issues/Pages: 48 Pages

Year: 2005

Rate: 20/100 

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WIKI: Indigo Vertigo is a 48-page graphic novella, written by KatieJane Garside and illustrated byDogwitch creator, Daniel Schaffer. It was published by Image Comics in 2005.

Indigo Vertigo is described as "the hallucinatory spectacle of one woman’s experience at the brink of reality."^{[citation needed]} A quote from Warren Ellis on the back cover reads, "Like Sylvia Plath fucking David Lynch".

According to Schaffer, who acknowledges a heavy influence from Lynch (and also Japanese auteur, Shinya Tsukamoto), the book is an experiment in subjective storytelling, and came about as the result of an unconventional, intuitive creative process developed by himself andKatieJane Garside (vocalist with extreme rock band Queenadreena).

REVIEW: Indigo Vertigo veoma uspešno, koristeći jako malo vašeg vremena, uspeva da predstavi sve ono što ne valja kod alternativnih stripova, grafičkih novela, muzike, slikarstva, umetnosti i kulture uopšte. 

Sve ovde smrdi na usiljenu alternativnost, poremećenost, posebnost, neshvaćenost, sve ono što inače ide na kurac kod novovekovne omladine velikih gradova ovde je nagurano, koncentrisano na nekih pedesetak stranica. Pevačica ultra dosadnog alt. rok benda se uvatila pera i pokušala da sroči nekakvu priču, osim nabacanih rečenica i motiva brutalne seksualnosti, samopovređivanja, depresije i jebenog samosažaljevanja nema ama baš ničeg u sebi. 

Ja zaista obožavam ovaj medij i većinu onog što od globalne masprodukcije pročitam na stomak i sive ćelije legne sasvim fino, ok, preskočim besmilslene marvelove superhorejske krosover nebuloze i često biram strip po vizuelnom stilu, pa ako priča zakaže, onda on ostaje kao uteha. Na, kraju, sve i daje ulimativni fail brzo se čita, zar ne? 

Ovo? 

Ovo je bezvredno, isprazno govno. Iako vizuelno izgleda, nešto kao, originalno, vrlo brzo dosadi jer osim crteža istetovirane, goth/emo/štagod rugobe nema šta da ponudi... Jedva isčitah ovo do kraja.

Ukoliko si neizjebana tinejdžerka, ružna i debela, ili si pak osetila kurac, pa se na isti uspalla najgore, pomislila da si opasna kučka što dečku balaviš kitu il mu daješ da ti svrši po sisama, plus imaš tetovažu tik iznad pubičnih dlaka/prsotine tvoje bulje pročitaj ovo, obavezno - jer, jeste stvoreno za tebe.

Shrapnel - Aristeia Rising

Title: Shrapnel - Aristeia Rising

Genre: Sci-Fi

Created by: Nick Sagan & Mark Long

Script: M. Zachary Sherman

Art: Bagus Hutomo

Publisher: Radical Comics

Issues: 1-5 of 5

Year: 2009

Rate: 83/100

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PROMO: Venus, 2250. After five years of war, the last free colony in the Solar System is about to fall. Unknown to the attacking Marines - or even the colonists themselves - the most infamous heroine of the war has gone into hiding in exile on their planet. Now she must organize a revolt against the very Marines she once fought alongside and lead the colonists to freedom.


REVIEW: Dobar, full-on ratni sci-fi je retkost u svetu devete umetnosti, čak bih rekao da ako izuzmemo razne franšize koje svoje poreklo vuku iz drugi medija, a u stripu su doživele samo svoje proširenje (ili, češće, samo daj-da-odradimo verzije). 
Srapnel: Aristeia Rising nam, pak, donosi svoj, originalni univerzum u kojem se čovečanstvo raširilo diljem sunčevog sistema, praktično naseljavajući svaku stenu, usput se cepajući u dve frakcije - na genetski modifikovane, "superiorne" splicere i tradicionaliste helote. Solar Alliance drži kontrolu nad vežinom sistema - osiguravajući mir i ujedinjenost ljudskog roda, što mirnim pretnjama silom, što efikasnom upotrebom iste u praksi, kad ustreba. U Savezu heloti su diskriminisani, najniži red građana, osuđeni na najprimitivnije poslove i trpljenje splajserskog vređenja, čak i iživljavanja. Venera je poslednja slobodna planeta i na njoj su dve grane čovečanstva jednake... ili makar jednakije. Tu utočište nalaze kako heloti, tako i ljudi koji jendostavno veruju u drugačije društvo, slobodno i pravednije, ali razni begunci iz Saveza. Među potonjim je i naša heroina - nekadašnji oficir marinaca koja je nakon užasnog masakra počinjenog od strane njenog nadređenog, a nad nedužnim civilima, odlučila da zauvek raskrsti sa trulom splajserskom tvorevinom - Savezom.
Ali, svemirski policajci stižu i na Veneru - da donesu mir i blagostanje, da je ujedine sa ostalim čovečanstvom, da obezbede njene stanovnike stotinama svojih marinaca. Na našoj heroini i hrabrim, ali u ratovanju neveštim venerijancima je da to spreče.

Veoma plastična metafora, rekao bih, na danađnje stanje u svetu, gde je Savez zapravo SAD, a pobunjena, slobodna Venera, zapravo, bilo koja od nacija koju danas ameri oslobađaju i kojima donose svoj mir i demokratiju...
Sve to uz spektakularne boje, efekte, scene masovnih bitki, tone mekova, razvaljenih oklopa i prosutih creva.

Welcome to Hoxford

Title: Welcome to Hoxford

Genre: Horror

Story&Art: Ben Templesmith

Publisher: IDW Publishing

Issues/Pages: 1-4 of 4 

Year: 2008

Rate: 85/100

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PROMO: Raymond Delgado isn't well. He's the newest inmate at the Hoxford Correctional Facility and Mental Institution. He has no hope of release, parole, rehabilitation, or decent conversation. On a good day, he'll tell you he's Zeus and only bite your arm off. Literally. On a bad day, you won't have time to scream to the prison guard for help. But Dr. Jessica Ainley, his doctor for five, years wants to help Ray and can't understand why the newly privatized, corporately-run prison won't give her access to her patients. And why are people always transferred into Hoxford, but no records show anyone ever transferring back out?


REVIEW: Ben Templesmith polako postaje jedan od omiljenijih mi savremenih strip autora, iako njegov vizuelni stil, kojeg se drži ko pijan plota, više baš i ne oduševljava kao na početku 30 Days of Night serijala, Ben uvek uspeva da servira dovoljnu dozu pomerenog i otrežnjujućeg, da ništa s njegovim potpisom nije gubljenje vremena, naprotiv - zabava nalik alkoholu, prija, ali na kraju ostavlja mučninu i glavobolju.
Ben se u Welcome to Hoxford opasno zaglibio u najcrnje ambise ljudskog uma, pišuću o gomili najumobolniji, najsurovijih zločinaca - pedofila, nekrofila, koljača, kanibala. Ti monstrumi, od kojih je i zatvorski sistem SAD-a digao ruke i poslao ih u privatnu ustanovu vođenu od strane sumnjive ruske kompanije, doživeće užase i muke jednake ili veće od onih u kojima su skončale njihove žrtve - biće živi pojedeni.

Ali, nećete ih žaliti. Ni nalik šetačima Zelenom Miljom, ovi skotovi su samo zlo, svakom sledećom stranom i u vama će zlo i želju za krvlju, osvetom i vaseljenskom pravdom buditi!

Legends: The Enchanted

Title: Legends - The Enchanted

Genre: Fantasy/Horror/Steam-punk

Story&Art: Nick Percival

Publisher: Radical Comics

Issues/Pages: 103

Year: 2010

Rate: 78/100

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PROMO: Named Best Graphic Novel of 2010 by Horror News.

Violently ripped from the pages of folklore, the Enchanted emerge.  This band of supernatural immortals inhabits a twisted steam-punk realm infested by nightmarish creatures.  A place where nature, technology and foul magic are in constant conflict.  When the mutilated remains of the half-wooden, half-mechanical warrior Pinocchio are discovered, wolf-hunter Red Hood and giant-killer Jack realize that their protective spell of immortality has been broken.  Jack and Red, with the help of the mercenary, Goldilocks, and psychic exterminators Hansel and Gretel, team up on an adventure to stop whatever, or whoever, is eliminating their powers and destroying their kind.


REVIEW: Priču sasvim dobro sumira ovaj pasus iz promo materijala, pa meni ostaje da kažem da suštinski nije u pitanju nekakav spaktakl i da je, kada pričamo o adaptiranju i modernizaciji bajki, strip svet video i nešto ubedjivije priče, ali, Legends: The Enchanted je i više nego pristojan komad i to može da zahvali pre svega vanrednom izgledu - verujte mi, da mi neko ponudi da biram između bilo koje strane ovog stripa i rasne, prirodne, u predelu grudnog koša obdarene crnke, izabrao bih šareno parče stripa i s njim vodio ljubav celu noć!

Hellblazer: Original Sins

Title: Hellblazer

Genre: Horror

Story: Jamie Delano

Art: John Ridgway, Alfredo Alcala

Publisher: DC Comics

Issues/Pages: Hellblazer issues 1-9

Year: 1988

Rate: 91/100

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PROMO: John Constantine is an unconcerned, somewhat amoral occultist with a British working-class background. He's a hero, of sorts, who manages to come out on top through a combination of luck, trickery, and genuine magical skill. The ORIGINAL SINS collection is a loosely connected series of tales of John's early years where Constantine was at his best and at his worst, all at the same time.


REVIEW: Parče strip istorije, ništa manje. Možda i prvi, a svakako jedan od najslađih plodova drveta što ga 1986. posadiše Miler i Mur svojim magnum opusima, Džon Konstantin Helblejzer, što ga stvori upravo potonji, jeste slika i prilika stripa i strip heroja stvorenog za starije, ozbiljnije, odabrane - one koje su uz strip ostali i one koji su strip našli i pored činjenioce da odavno nije u u trendu i kul. 
Ovde su prve epizode, njih devet. Nije u pitanju konferentan story arc, već više nekoliko zasebnih priča koje na efektan način postavljaju postulate, pokazaće se, veoma uspešnog i dugovečnog serijala.
Džon je mag, natprirodan i običan, skot i kukavica, heroj i pravednik, sebičan i surov, ranjiv i sjeban, Džon je - čovek. Čovek koji puši, žrtvuje svoje prijatelje, čovek kojeg volite i mrzite, ali bez kojeg već posle ovih priča - nećete moći. 
Isčitah sve što su za ovaj serijal napisali Dilejno i  Enis, kao i još ponešto, vremenom ću polako aplovdovati džonove avanture, makar do poslednjeg enisovog slova...

Cut

Title: Cut

Genre: Horror

Story: Mike Richardson

Art: Todd Herman (cover by Mike Mignola)

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Issues/Pages: 112 pages

Year: 2007

Rate: 65/100

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PROMO: The latest addition to the Dark Horse horror line is this chilling original graphic novel from writer and publisher Mike Richardson (The Secret, Cravan). Twentysomething Meagan Walters regains consciousness and finds herself locked in an empty room of an old house. She's bleeding from the back of her head, and has no memory of where the wound came from-she'd been at a club with some friends . . . left angrily . . . was she abducted? When Meagan peers through the door's keyhole, she starts to suspect that her captor isn't quite human . . .

V for Vendetta

Title: V for Vendetta

Genre: Superhero/Post-apocalyptic

Story: Alan Moore

Art: David Lloyd

Publisher: Vertigo

Issues: 1-10 of 10

Year: 1982-1989

Rate: 96/100

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PROMO: "Perhaps Moore's most powerful work." —PORTLAND MERCURY" Dark, gripping storytelling." —ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY" Densely-packed, thematically vibrant and philosophically challenging." —SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE A seminal graphic novel that defined sophisticated storytelling,Alan Moore's best-selling V FOR VENDETTA is a terrifying portrait of totalitarianism and resistance, superbly illustrated by artist David Lloyd. The graphic novel that inspired the hit movie V FOR VENDETTA is a powerful story about loss of freedom and individuality.Set in a futuristic totalitarian England, a country without political freedom, personal freedom and precious little faith in anything,a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask fights political oppressors through terrorism and seemingly absurd acts. It's a gripping tale of the blurred lines between ideological good and evil.

The Saga of The Metabarons pt. II

Title: The Saga of The Metabarons pt. II

Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Story: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Artwork: Juan Gimenez

Publisher: Humanoides Associes

Issues/Pages: issues 5-8 (completed)

Year: 
Rate: 92/100

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ENGLISH(wiki): "The Metabarons or The Saga of The Meta-Barons is a science fantasycomic series relating the history of a dynasty of perfect warriors known as theMetabarons. The Metabarons series was written by creator Alejandro Jodorowsky and illustrated by Argentinian artist Juan Gimenez. The series, published by Humanoïdes Associés, is complete, the last volume having been released at the end of 2003."

REVIEW: Ovaj trejd pejprbek zatvara epohalnu sagu o Metabaronima. Jedna od najvećih svemirskih opera svih vremena, uzimajući u obzir sve moguće medijume, u svojoj drugoj polovini postaje vrhunski mračna, surova i umobolna. Hodorovski pričom o svakom sledećem metabaronu, superiornom galaktičkom ratniku heroju, plaćeniku i ubici, pomera granice moralno prihvatljivog i za želudac svarljivog, slagajući šok za šokom, rušeći i stvarajući tabu za tabuom...

Gde je već početak kaste bio obeležen krvavim ritualima sakaćenja dece-naslednika titule i vrhunski surove borbe do smrti oca-metabarona i sina-naslednika gde od konačnog ishoda zavisi da li će se kasta ugasiti ili će galaksija dobiti novog (anti)heroja. Završne priče su za nekoliko stepenika surovije i zaista - bolesnije.

Zamislite samo postojanje izraza "auto-incest" i njegovo značenje i dobićete, deo, slike o univerzumu metabarona.

Batman: The Killing Joke

Title: Batman - The Killing Joke The Deluxe Edition

Genre: Superhero

Story: Alan Moore

Art: Brian Bolland

Publisher: DC Comics

Issues/Pages: 65 pages

Year: 1988 (20th anniversary edition)

Rate: 92/100

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PROMO: One of the most famous Batman stories of all time is offered for the first time in hardcover in this special twentieth-anniversary edition.

This is the unforgettable that forever changed Batman's world, adding a new element of darkness with its unflinching portrayal of The Joker's twisted psyche.

Writer Alan Moore, acclaimed author of WATCHMEN and V FOR VENDETTA, offers his take on the disturbing relationship between The Dark Knight and his greatest foe. The Clown Prince of Crime has never been more ruthless than in this brutal tale.

This special new edition also includes a story written and exquisitely illustrated by Brian Bolland.

The Arrival

Title: The Arrival

Author: Shaun Tan

Pubsliher: Hachette Children's Books

Issues/Pages: 120 pages

Year: 2007

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PROMO: A truly remarkable work of art that is already one of the most talked-about book of the season.

"A shockingly imaginative graphic novel that captures the sense of adventure and wonder that surrounds a new arrival on the shores of a shining new city. Wordless, but with perfect narrative flow, Tan gives us a story filled with cityscapes worthy of Winsor McCay." -- Jeff Smith, author of Bone

"A magical river of strangers and their stories!" -- Craig Thompson, author of Blankets

"Magnificent." -- David Small, Caldecott Medalist