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Prison Pit, Vol. 1 (2009)

by Johnny Ryan(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

160699297X (ISBN13: 9781606992975)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Fantagraphics

series

Prison Pit

review 1: Read this in about 10 minutes at the library this evening. This is juvenile, homophobic, racist tripe - the kind of stuff that bored teenage boys draw between classes to try to gross each other out, and that's where it should have stayed. It is interesting to see how some people will try to intellectualize the most vapid shit. I feel like I've lost some brain cells from having read this book. It's not edgy or cool or funny, it's just stupid and ugly.
review 2: Barbarian wrestler monsters tearing eachother apart in a penal colony, without any hang-ups over actual storytelling, characters, anything beyond senseless action. Which has a certain kind of arguable awesomeness I guess, like Fantagraphics went and published a bunch of violent classroom doodles from some... more bored middle school punk (not for nothing Johnny Ryan apparently made his name in "Angry Youth Comics"). I dunno though, it gets kind of monotonous, especially in volume two. Like, I'd probably get more into a chapter of the protagonist just wandering around aimlessly as a break from the decapitations and whatever. Not really something I would put any work into reading, but I didn't have to: one of my roommates left this and the second part in the living room and they only took about 10 minutes to read. less

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