Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781563899881
ISBN: 1563899884
Label: Vertigo
Manufacturer: Vertigo
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: 2003-12-01
Publisher: Vertigo
Release Date: 2003-12-01
Studio: Vertigo

Customer Rating:
Summary: Graphic SF Reader
Comment: The Cure opens with schools using thought detectors to get rid of people.

After having his evidence destroyed, Spider must gather more, to take another shot at the President. With all filthy assistants armed with bowel disruptors, he sets out ot do this in his manic, though ill and wobbling fashion.

The Smiler declares fake emergencies to extend his powers to do as he sees fit, ignoring laws to do what suits him politically.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Best Series Ever!
Comment: This series, for those of you who don't know, is very radical, creative, amusing, astonishing, bewildering and just plain exiting. Spider Jerusalem, the main character, is based on Hunter S. Thompson (who, if you don't already know of, you should do some reading about, or just think back to Johnny Depp's performance in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas").

Spider is a journalist (just like the real, and late, Hunter S. Thompson) who has a real problem with the way his city is being run. The series starts with a very hairy Spider who had just been living in the mountains for five years just to escape the city and "The Beast" who runs it.

The city is very futuristic, but is very much like the world we live in (if advertising strategies, body modifications and the availability of pornography and weaponary were multiplied by 10).

This is my favorite graphic novel of any I've ever read, and recomend it to every person on the planet (well, anyone who has a brain). I'd give this book 12 stars if I could, but my options are limited by Amazon here.

If you like graphic novels, Hunter S. Thomson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, rebellion, jounalism, body modification, futuristic technology concepts, sex, drugs, violence, humor, or just one of thee above, start yourself off by getting Volume 1: "Back on the Street" which is the first 3 comics in one paperback. I promise you won't regret it.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: The end is here
Comment: After taking us n the ride of our life, Warren Ellis is finishing of with a tone non can ignore.
IN the last attempt to find the truth and expose "the smiler" Spider Jerusalem is doing what he does best, recovering the truth no matter what may be the consequences.
The comic reads like a hurricane, jumping from scene to scene and bringing the chaos that rose with the election of "the smiler".

Spider Jerusalem is fighting against time, against his decaying brain and against forces that hold almost all of the cards.
Holding to the truth, his fists, his bowl disrupter and the chair leg of truth Spider is giving the fight of his life.

A marvellous ending to a brilliant work of literature and art

Ziv

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