Un-Men Vol. 1 Get Your Freak On [Paperback]

John Whalen (Author), Mike Hawthorne (Author), Tomer Hanuka (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 22, 2008 | Series: Un-Men (Book 1)

Breakout writer John Whalen and Eisner-nominated artist Mike Hawthorne (THE EXTERMINATORS, Queen and Country) bring chilling new life to THE UN-MENthe former SWAMP THING adversaries created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightsonwith a series that explores what it means to be a freak in a society filled with gawkers. After a sideshow attraction called The Gill-Boy is murdered, an albino agent known as Kilcrop is dispatched by the government to solve the case. To uncover the truth, Kilcrop must infiltrate Aberrance, where society's most misshapen outcasts find their own kind of freedom.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Created to pester the Swamp Thing yea-many years back, the Un-Men are surgically created freaks now receiving their second spin-off (after a five-issue comic in 1994) at Whalen and Hawthorne’s enthusiastic hands. Cranius (a face-and-bulging-brain atop a hand, which perches on a supersurgeon body, Otto) and Janus (an extra head and smaller torso sprout from his back) have seized corporate control of Aberrance U.S.A., a city reservation–cum–theme park for the very differently abled that was founded by the late (sort of, it develops) Damien Kane, whom cancer experimentation made elephant-man-like. The citizenry is restless, and after albino agent Kilcrop comes to investigate the murder of dissident Berthold the Amazing Gill-Boy, all hell breaks loose—and just as Cranius as, atop Otto, Dr. Von Schadel is set to launch his surefire-hit reality show, American Freak. A verbal and visual stream of gross-outs, gunplay, gore, grimaces, un-PC guffaws, and heroics executed with an oh-puh-leez! attitude, this is immense over-the-top fun, perfect for a movie with Jim Carrey as everybody except Niko, the one-armed, two-winged love interest. --Ray Olson

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Vertigo (April 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401217028
• ISBN-13: 978-1401217020
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 0.3 x 10.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,500,170 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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