Customer Reviews

Atomic Chili: The Illustrated Joe R. Lansdale

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Anything Joe R. Lansdale puts out is one more thing the public just may see and finally get. This guys stories should be savored in whatever form it comes out in. Joe's work is so visual that doing comics of his earlier short story work makes alot of sense. Love the whole design of this book.

That's right folks! AC is not really for readers of Joe Lansdale's stories, as there is quite a bit of repetitious stuff in these comics that were covered in his other paperbacks -- the most egregiously copied one being DEAD IN THE WEST, which is already in another special edition trade paperback! The stories are great (hence the three star rating), but I felt ripped off because of this excessive reprinting of DEAD IN THE WEST as well as the other old, staid stories that have reappeared in other short story anthologies. The AC book would have been infinitely better if had served up more of Joe's lesser known horror stories; and AC would have been spiced up considerably if Joe had added a more witty number, like GODZILLA'S TWELVE STEP PROGRAM, to the menu as well (even though adding that story would also have been reptitious).

JL is certainly of a sufficiently inventive mind to crank out more new stories. And he would have better served his readership out there if'n he'd a done this with AC -- like, maybe, totally fresh short stories, dude! I mean, if King can do this with his CREEPSHOW anthologies, surely old Joe can crank 'em out too.

That's my only beef about AC; other than that, the stories are first-rate, even though they're as old and crusty as two-week old dog turds.