Presenting Heavy Metal Pulp, a new line of novels combining noir fiction with fantastic art featuring the theme, story lines, and graphic styles of Heavy Metal magazine.
Following the explosive events of book one, Pleasure Model, Detective Rook Venner, Mistress Julia, and Plesur are on the run from the government troops trying to kill them and from a shadowy group that wants to capture Plesur alive for its own purposes. What secrets have been implanted in Plesur’s head—and why are they worth killing for?
Caught between these two powerful rivals, the trio hides out in the lawless New Jersey territory. Betrayed by gang members looking to collect the bounty on Plesur’s head, the three are separated, and Rook and Mistress Julia find themselves in mortal danger. Julia, given as a prize to a gang member, finds herself in chains, but not without her own means of fighting back. Rook, forced to fight for his life in the gang’s bloodthirsty gladiatorial games, must stay alive long enough to rescue Plesur, but time is running out.
The Bloodstained Man is a fast-paced, adrenaline-filled ride through a future where pleasure has a price, and Plesur holds the key to a secret that could rock the country to its very core.
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This slight second novel in Rowley's pulp-noir Netherworld series barely advances the plot jump-started in 2009's Pleasure Model. Ex-homicide detective Rook Venner is still on the run with Plesur, a sex android who carries top-secret data that has made her the quarry of the government, the military, and possibly a shadowy private agency. A rendezvous with a vice-presidential aspirant whose name has been programmed into Plesur promises to clear up some of the mystery of why she is being pursued, but it's interrupted by a band of marauding mercenaries who kidnap the refugees and force Rook to fight a series of gratuitously brutal gladiatorial matches that take up much of the novel's first half. Abundant car chases, pyrotechnic gunfights, and sexual interludes only point up the story's thin substance, and sketchy illustrations by artist Justin Norman distract more than they enhance.
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“Pleasure Model evokes strains of Blade Runner with a terse, authentic Noir tone, mixed with the ethical ambiguities of a futuristic, amoral world and a cyberpunk sensibility. The story moves well and is told with a steady, authoritative hand, guaranteed to leave fans of both Noir and cyberpunk waiting for more.”--Shroud Magazine
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Plesur is Yours,
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This review is from: Heavy Metal Pulp: The Bloodstained Man: Netherworld Book Two (Netherworld (Heavy Metal)) (Paperback)
"The Bloodstained Man" is the second in the Netherworld Series, and if you haven't met Plesur, the Pammy, you owe it to yourself to meet this genetically grown gorgeous girl in Volume l, when she had the mentality of a 4-year-old, and the sweetness of a sex-kitten with an urge to please. Now, thanks to an earback, she's a savvy killa, but miraculously, the sweetness remains.
This is very easy reading, yet full of linguistic twists that enhance the turning plot. There is everything in here, from basic, completely comprehensive sex to sex based on one of those twisting turns, from blow-by-blow descriptions of fights with almost-alien humans, to fights with almost-human robots. These are not battles with armies of thousands, but hand-to-hand combat with monsters, and if your heart can't take it, don't come to the party, because you become the fighters. You think with them, fear with them, feel with them. You don't want to die with them. Not these deaths. It is rare that illustrations match the story, but the illustrations of the pleasure model, the Dominatrix, and Rook Venner enhance, rather than destroy your own illusions. The illustrations of the city make you feel as though you're there. I am quite taken with the format of these books. They're chunky, but light, there's a lot of white space on the page, and the pictures add a welcome dimension. They read very quickly, yet they impart a tremendous amount of information, so you know the world and the people in it as if you have been there for years, rather than a few hours. It's an enveloping experience that stays with you till the next book comes along - there will be one more in this series, and you will be compelled to read it if you read this one. A lot of writers' visions of the future seem arbitrary, but Rowley has worked out a world that feels real - a frightening view of how it will be. This is great summer reading. Take it to the country and read it on the deck. Take it to the beach and read it on your blanket. But do not read it on the subway - people will look over your shoulder at the illustrations, and you could be arrested for disruption. And one more thing - make sure you are alone when you read the last scene. Your screams might attract unwanted attention.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Rock on!!!!!!!,
By Marc "BookMarc Blogpants" (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Heavy Metal Pulp: The Bloodstained Man: Netherworld Book Two (Netherworld (Heavy Metal)) (Paperback)
In the beginning God created the prose novel and He saw that it was good. The prose novel was lonely though and so God put it to sleep, tore out a page, and created the comic. The prose novel and comic lived together happily in the library of Eden and bore fruit that they named 'Graphic Novel'. Thousands of years later and a bastard hybrid of the graphic novel and the prose novel has somehow been born and it was not a day too soon.
'The Bloodstained Man', as you may have guessed, is a midway meeting point between a prose and graphic novel. Almost every page has a picture that ranges from about an eighth of the page space to about a quarter. Some pages have a couple of drawings. However, the pictures are the side salad whereas the prose is the meat and potatoes of this literary dinner. That dinner was easily digested and it tasted good with the cover and inside artwork making it pleasant on the eyes also. From the back cover of the book... "...Detective Rook Venner, Mistress Julia, and Plesur are on the run from the government troops trying to kill them and from a shadowy group that wants to capture Plesur alive for its own purposes. What secrets have been planted in Plesur's head - and why are they worth killing for? Caught between these two powerful rivals, the trio hides out in the lawless New Jersey territory. Betrayed by gang members looking to collect the bounty on Plesur's head, the three are separated, and Rook and Mistress Julia find themselves in mortal danger. Julia, given as a prize to a gang member, finds herself in chains, but not without her own means of fighting back. Rook, forced to fight for his life in the gang's bloodthirsty gladiatorial games, must stay alive long enough to rescue Plesur, but time is running out." I have to admit that I couldn't get into this book when I first picked it up and sat myself down. Something just wasn't right. You see, the day was warm and sunny with the smell of freshly cut grass in the air. Children were playing outside, laughing and giggling, enjoying the sunshine and the whole ambiance was just wrong for a book like this. Out came the stereo. In went the 'System of a Down' CD. Up went the volume. Down the throat went a cold beer. Now, this was more like it! "Oh baby, baby How was I supposed to know That something wasn't right here Oh baby baby..." WHOA!!!! HOLD ON!!!!! WRONG FRICKIN' CD!!!! With the setting turned from a wrong to a right I tried again to read the book and, in the correct state of mind, thoroughly enjoyed it. Think of this novel as the equivalent of an action packed, exploitation movie with more explosions and guns than an episode of the A-Team and as much sex and nudity as a bachelor party at the Playboy mansion. Make no mistake about it 'The Bloodstained Man' doesn't pretend to be anything other than an all action, in your face, kickin' your teeth out, high octane, roller coaster ride of sex and violence. Also, make no mistake about it this book succeeds in what it wants to be and I for one found it a refreshing change from the norm and hope that it has great success.
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The series keeps getting better!,
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This review is from: Heavy Metal Pulp: The Bloodstained Man: Netherworld Book Two (Netherworld (Heavy Metal)) (Paperback)
I read and loved Pleasure Model and was hoping for the next books to be bigger and badder. Wish granted! The Bloodstained Man is jam packed with action and not one page was boring. The explosions were enormous and so fun to imagine. Plesur really came into her own as a well written character and one kick-ass chick. There are some killer robots, or shall I call one a Cat-bot that deserves its own full page illustration. In this second installment, we're introduced to some new characters which happen to be new p-mods and some nasty bad guys running a fight club. Like I said, everything is bigger and badder in this second book. If you liked Pleasure Model, you are going to love The Bloodstained Man. Highly recommended for fans of sci-fi and pulp stories.
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