Gary Panter
1) Dal Tokyo
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Gary Panter began imagining Dal Tokyo, a future Mars that is terraformed by Texan and Japanese workers, as far back as 1972, appropriating a friend's idea about "cultural and temporal collision" (The "Dal" is short for Dallas).Why Texan and Japanese? Panter says, "Because they are trapped in Texas, Texans are self-mythologizing. Because I was trapped in Texas at the time, I needed to believe that the broken tractor out back was a car of the future....
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Panter's version doesn't rely on Milton's words, but faithfully follows the structure of Milton's Paradise Regained, with one notable exception: Jesus has been replaced by a hillbilly, Songy, who is on a vision quest before being tempted by a chimeric Satan figure.
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Dark Horse
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2016
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Based on Tom DeHaven's acclaimed cult novel, one of comics' most powerful horror stories returns! In DeHaven's nightmarish America, the survivors of a nuclear blast--twisted by radiation and the contempt of the human population--try to raise money for surgeries any way they can. For brothers Grinner and Flour, that means everything from grotesque traveling sex shows for the normals to the ultimate drug--mutant goldfish eggs! This collection includes...
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Based on Tom DeHaven's acclaimed cult novel, one of comics' most powerful horror stories returns! In DeHaven's nightmarish America, the survivors of a nuclear blast-twisted by radiation and the contempt of the human population-try to raise money for surgeries any way they can. For brothers Grinner and Flour, that means everything from grotesque traveling sex shows for the normals to the ultimate drug-mutant goldfish eggs! This collection includes...
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The stories in this here anthology may in fact be true true wild tales I've absorbed over time. Perhaps drenched with generous hyperbole? I'll let you decide.
As one of the founding members of the seminal punk band Angry Samoans, Gregg Turner has seen his fair share of weird shit. From his time at Creem Magazine in the early 1970s to the formation of the Angry Samoans in Los Angeles, and all the travels, trials, and tribulations that occured after,...