Black Summer
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Comic Summary: by Warren Ellis & Juan Jose Ryp The bodies of American soldiers litter the streets of an American city, the Seven Guns are being hunted by both public and secret authorities, and the clock ticks towards the point where John Horus will wipe American society away and begin again if he feels like it. And Tom Noir realizes no one's had time to ask the real question: Why did Horus kill the President?
Codes: AUG073426 AUG073424 AUG073425 NOV073352
- Price:
$2.99$2.39- Artist:
- Juan Jose
- Author:
- Warren Ellis
- Author:
- Juan Jose
- Cover Artist:
- Juan Jose
- Release Date:
- October 31, 2007
- In Stock?
- Expected soon
- Contains content intended for mature readers
- Genre:
- Science Fiction, Superhero
- Pages:
- 32
- Colouring:
- FC
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Customer Reviews
Black Summer is pretty typical Warren Ellis, if there is such a thing, and I think that there is.
Even the characters who aren't smartasses are smartasses; plenty of swearing, violence, and clever one-liners; the world as we know it is corrupted and awful, except for those crazy and/or noble enough to rise above it all and fight the system.
You can draw a line from Transmetropolitan all the way to Black Summer, and that line will hold up. Depending on your point of view, that is either a good thing, or a bad thing. Also depending on how much you enjoy Warren Ellis' worldview and writing style.
Issue 3 of Black Summer continues to up the ante for the Seven Guns, a group of superhumans being hunted down by the US military after one of their number, John Horus, killed the President in the ultimate act of protest against a government gone wrong. Though it's never explicitly stated, it's pretty well assumed that this dead President is a version of George W. Bush transplanted into the Black Summer universe.
That makes this book a dirty bit of political protest, even as it's an edgy tale of superheroics; Ellis is trying to show us a single fantastic worst-case scenario of how things could go horribly wrong for our government were there anyone strong and certain enough to stand up to the current "regime." So you get a little current events parable along with your grim 'n' gritty superheroics.
Even the characters who aren't smartasses are smartasses; plenty of swearing, violence, and clever one-liners; the world as we know it is corrupted and awful, except for those crazy and/or noble enough to rise above it all and fight the system.
You can draw a line from Transmetropolitan all the way to Black Summer, and that line will hold up. Depending on your point of view, that is either a good thing, or a bad thing. Also depending on how much you enjoy Warren Ellis' worldview and writing style.
Issue 3 of Black Summer continues to up the ante for the Seven Guns, a group of superhumans being hunted down by the US military after one of their number, John Horus, killed the President in the ultimate act of protest against a government gone wrong. Though it's never explicitly stated, it's pretty well assumed that this dead President is a version of George W. Bush transplanted into the Black Summer universe.
That makes this book a dirty bit of political protest, even as it's an edgy tale of superheroics; Ellis is trying to show us a single fantastic worst-case scenario of how things could go horribly wrong for our government were there anyone strong and certain enough to stand up to the current "regime." So you get a little current events parable along with your grim 'n' gritty superheroics.
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