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Mom bought me this book at Aggiecon because it had
art by J.G. Jones, who did her all-time favorite
Transmetropolitian cover. I never in my wildest
dreams would have believed I'd like a book by Top
Cow.
The mature audience warning became blatantly
obvious once I opened the cover. The title of the issue
was F**K OFF and the opening paragraph on the
first page was :
This is me and Lisa lying in bed and not having
sex. This is her not calling into work and
pretending to be sick. This is me NOT getting a
blow job.
This also immediately got my attention and made me
think, "You know, this book looks pretty darn
interesting." This issue is about the
transformation of Wesley, mild mannered paper
pusher/doormat, into a supervillian. In 1986, all
of the supervillians from all over the world teamed
up and overthrew the superheroes. They did more
than simply overthrow them, though. They
completely erased all evidence of their existence.
This book is one of those instances, where you
know the people in it are bad and that they're
killing innocent people, but you still like them.
If you like books like Transmet, be sure to pick
up this series. It's cool and it's edgy. And I
fully intend on trying to find the issue I missed.
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