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Joe El Bárbaro (2011)

by Sean Murphy(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

8468475475 (ISBN13: 9788468475479)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Vertigo (DC Comics)

review 1: Quite a ride, and worthy of a close reading. The joy of this is that Grant Morrison manages to surprise us with the emotional depth of Joe Manson's situation, arriving at a satisfying conclusion. The whole of the work is infused with the intensity of a fever dream, due largely to the artwork by Sean Murphy. His art joined with Todd Klein's lettering and Dave Stewart's coloring makes for a first-class outing. I will allow that by the final chapter (and the emotional payoff) I was nearly worn out with the half-crazed story, and it took more effort than I would like to admit to just slow down and hang on for the ride. Also, by strange coincidence, later in the day when finally getting around to reading The Maxx: Maxximized #7 (originally published Mar. '94) I was amused to di... morescover a tale with an incredibly similar setting and action. The protagonist, Maxx, has teamed up with Pitt -- they're both miniature for some reason -- and they cavort all over an ordinary-looking apartment for pages and pages fighting some mythical little baddie. I'd like to think that Morrison and Murphy read The Maxx at some point, and Joe The Barbarian is a love letter to the kind of unhinged work that Sam Kieth, William Messner-Loebs, & Jim Sinclair did so well twenty years ago.
review 2: An enjoyable tale created by what is most likely an everyday occurrence. Joe is an common teenager (unpopular loner with a complex living situation) with an uncommon problem (type-1 diabetes). After a bad school day Joe shuts himself in his room, only to wake hours later after realizing he'd forgotten to keep his sugar levels balanced. What stems from this is an extraordinary adventure as Joe makes his way downstairs to grab a soda from the kitchen fridge, fighting off hallucinations that reciprocate his memories and home life in a fantasy world along the way. less

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