Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Athos in America


This description of the next book, Athos in America, has come up on amazon:

Another all-original collection of full-color graphic novellas in the format of Low Moon, Athos in America takes its title from the lead story, a prequel of sorts to the graphic novel The Last Musketeer, in which the seemingly ageless swashbuckler turns up in a bar in 1920 New York and relates the tale of how he went to Hollywood to play himself in a film version of The Three Musketeers. Another tie-in with a previous Jason story occurs in “The Smiling Horse,” in which the characters from the story “&” in Low Moon attempt to kidnap a woman.

Also in this volume: “The Brain That Wouldn’t Virginia Woolf,” a mash-up of The Brain That Wouldn’t Die and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, told in reverse chronological order; the Bukowski pastiche “A Cat From Heaven” in which Jason works on his comic, has a reading in a comic book store, gets drunk and makes a fool of himself; the dialogue-free (all the text occurs in thought balloons) “Tom Waits on the Moon,” in which we follow four people (one of them a scientist working on a teleportation machine) until something goes wrong; and “So Long Mary Ann,” a prison-escape love-triangle story. 200 pages of full-color comics

6 comments:

  1. Can't wait! Time to re-read Low Moon.

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  2. wow that sounds so great! i can't wait to read it!

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  3. You're gonna have to! Publication will be in December...

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  4. well i know what to ask santa for! all the storys sound great but as a Bukowski fan im looking forward to "a cat from heaven" the most.

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  5. This will be my chirstmas present this year! Another classic book-Thanks Jason

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