Wayne is a bounty hunter, but he has the bad luck to be one in the middle of a desert filled with the undead. Still, if he wants to get paid, he needs to bring in his man... so dead folks best get out of his way if they know what's good for 'em. But being dead, they clearly don't. The cult favorite team of Joe R. Lansdale and Timothy Truman are back together for the first time in years, bringing all the hilarious insanity and violence that made their Jonah Hex series modern classics. Except this time, the kid gloves are off as they deliver more mayhem, death, and (of course) zombies per page than any other graphic novel on the market!
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Joe R. Lansdale is the winner of the British Fantasy Award, the American Horror Award, the Edgar Award, seven Bram Stoker Awards, and the World Horror Convention 2007 Grand Master Award. He has written for novels, comic books, television, and movies. He is best known for his "Hap Collins and Leonard Pines" mystery novels, as well as the horror series DRIVE-IN, which was adapted to comics by Avatar Press.
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Short But Gruesome Zombie Ride,
This review is from: Joe R. Lansdale And Timothy Truman's On the Far Side with Dead Folks (Paperback)
Joe Lansdale is one of the best horror writers in the business today and it's great to see someone putting out comic adaptations of his stories. His graphic and visceral style is well-suited to the comics. This tale is based on a classic Romero-esque zombie story he wrote called "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks". It's sort of a Dawn of the Dead meets Omega Man type story. Lansdale provides an introduction in the book that features are by Tim Truman, best known for his Grimjack series for First Comics back in the 1980's. Lansdale touts Truman as the finest comic artist in the business. That may be stretching things a tad bit but Truman is very good. Oddly though, while the full page illustrations in this book by Truman are quite gorgeous, the actually story art is somewhat bland and has a rushed look to it. It's done strictly in black and white with out any grays or even zip-a-tone to give the art and depth or shading and Truman's usual fine line work is missing.
The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where a virus was released causing the dead to return to life to feed on the living. Pretty standard stuff there. A bounty hunter enters a desert strip club where they actually have nude female zombies as the entertainment. Their mouths are sealed shut so they can't bite and the sign outside advertises them as "perfumed and maggot-free". Nice...The bounty hunter is after a murderer named Calhoun and after a brief brawl, he takes his prey into custody. While driving through the desert they're attacked by a tank-like vehicle and captured by a band of zombies and fanatical nuns who serve a man who calls himself Lazarus. This man, we discover, is the one who actually created the virus that spread throughout the world. He's now using the blood of those not yet affected to try and find a cure. Lazarus has found a way to control the zombies and they now worship him as a God. With the help of one of the nuns who knows Lazarus is mad and wants out, the three escape into the desert for the final, grim climax to the story. Like much of Landsdale's work, this is a raw, bloody, and bleak tale. There's no heroic figures here to root for. The story is short but intense. The idea of lap-dancing zombies is thoroughly bizarre but probably quite accurate if a situation like this ever came to pass. Using a Disney-style theme park as the lair of Lazarus and his zombies was a nice little dig as well. I'll give the story five stars but I still think the art could have been a bit better, especially having seen Truman do so much outstanding work over the years. This one is definitely for mature readers. Reviewed by Tim Janson
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Take a wild ride to the far side of the Cadillac Desert...,
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This review is from: Joe R. Lansdale And Timothy Truman's On the Far Side with Dead Folks (Paperback)
and hang with the Dead Folks! On the Far Side with Dead Folks is a faithful adaptation of Joe Lansdale's classic zombie story On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks. It is vintage Lansdale, vulgar, funny, and, odd as it sounds, achingly humane. A mixture of the Romero Mythos (the original story was written for the anthology The Book of the Dead) and pulp men's adventure yarn, Dead Folks tells the tale of a tough bounty hunter that captures one bad dude, only to run into a crazy cult on the way back to collect his reward. Things get a bit complicated after that. Of all the Lansdale adaptations that Avatar has done, Dead Folks gets my vote as the best. Highly recommended to Lansdale fans.
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Zombies! Shotguns! Nuns! Kablooie!,
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This review is from: Joe R. Lansdale And Timothy Truman's On the Far Side with Dead Folks (Paperback)
Sometimes, you just want to see zombies explode.
Fortunately, Joe R. Lansdale understands your needs, and can provide for them, with Timothy Truman riding shotgun with the art. In Dead Folks, a bounty hunter and his quarry run into a mass of zombie evangelicals, including their mad scientist prophet and some buxom nuns. There's a lot of shooting, a brief break for exposition, and then some more shooting. This isn't exactly Watchmen, but nor does it try to be. Simply put, a finer example of bounty hunter/nun/zombie/scientist graphic fiction would be difficut to find
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