2020 Visions Hc (Mr) [Hardcover]

Book Description

Jamie Delano's tour de force follows the lives of a disjointed family, struggling to survive in the morally and socially decadent United States of 2020. From symbiotic venereal diseases to exclusive human breeding facilities, the future never looked so bleak, or so hopeful.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

These four vaguely linked dystopian stories about America's near future were originally serialized as a comic book in the late '90s, and their ideas about what's coming are already a bit out of date. The main point of interest right now is that the first story is drawn by Frank Quitely of New X-Men fame. That story, "Lust for Life," is this book's highlight, a darkly daffy evocation of a plague that makes its disenfranchised victims sex-mad before it kills them, set in the desiccated New York City of 2020. Quitely's hyper-detailed, warts-and-all artwork suits the piece nicely. "La Tormenta," a hard-boiled detective story with a female-to-male transsexual PI investigating a murderous plastic surgeon who rebuilds unwilling bodies, has its moments, too, though it's clear Warren Pleece's artwork was originally meant to be seen in color rather than (as it is here) in b&w. But the William Burroughs-influenced squalor and grotesquerie that Delano indulges in constantly have no real payoff, and James Romberger and Steve Pugh's artwork for the final two arcs (which both concern sectarian wars and mass infertility) is ugly and frequently unclear. There are plenty of clever ideas here, and the satire of American xenophobia and sex-terror from Delano's very British perspective is sometimes amusing; unfortunately, it all doesn't hold together as a single book.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 296 pages
• Publisher: Diamond Book Distributors
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974271349
• ISBN-13: 978-0974271347
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,491,224 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Steve Pugh is a British comics professional who has worked for most of the major comic producers on both sides of the Atlantic, including DC COMICS, MARVEL, IDW PUBLISHING, DARK HORSE COMICS and 2000 AD.

He is best known for SAINT OF KILLERS (with Garth Ennis), ANIMAL MAN (with Jaime Delano), and GENERATION X (with Warren Ellis and Brian Wood).

Currently Steve is painting and writing the HOTWIRE series of comics and graphic novels for RADICAL PUBLISHING

His website can be found at StevePugh.com

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2.0 out of 5 stars Be Very Aware of What You're Buying, July 27, 2009

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This review is from: 2020 Visions (Paperback)

I was a huge fan of the original comics and recently bought this collected edition for a friend. Let me first say that the content is stellar. The presentation, however, is terrible. The reduced page size further confuses what were already busy panels and, unlike the original, this collection is entirely in black and white, featuring pre-colored pages. What was initially one of the most enjoyable comics I've ever read is now a chore and a headache.