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The Bulletproof Coffin (2011)

by David Hine(Favorite Author)

4.13 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1607063689 (ISBN13: 9781607063681)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

Image Comics

review 1: I read this as it was coming out and jumped at the chance to get it collected when I saw it existed. One of my favorite comic series I've read in a long time. A comic for comic readers to be sure, as its protagonist’s life becomes inextricably entwined with an in-comic comic. Weird, hilarious, and creepy simultaneously, the plot leaves you wondering until the very end what will happen, if you can figure out exactly what IS happening long enough to think ahead.The artwork adds to the feeling of fantastic unease...there always seems to be something slightly off, a little wrong. It's a little disturbing and I can't put my finger on why. All the fake mail-in offers and pretend comic industry history are just icing on the cake. This comic is perfe... morect.
review 2: A sort of Morrisonian tale that stands for the rights of comic book stories to write themselves. Shaky Kane does a mix of Kirby, Geof Darrow, and Mike Allred, which sets the tone for a pop mishmash that might actually be just a self-promotion device. As I understand it, both Hine and Kane have missed their mainstream spotlight, but they're acting as if they've always been in the picture. A preview of Hine's Strange Embrace is actually disguised as a story inside the story, which makes sense since we're talking about a shared universe. "Properties" and "trademarks" keep flowing into each other without end, characters reading about themselves and trying to make sense of a mythology that time forgot: what can we do with the past that becomes museological treasure and thus cannot be relived anymore? We enter the realm of the undead. less

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