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The Revenge of Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist [Paperback]

Diane Dimassa (Author)
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This book is bound to leave you speechless--either due to slack-jawed shock or belly-aching laughter. It is, as the title does suggest, about a homicidal lesbian terrorist, and all that you might imagine this entails: men-hating, men-bashing, men-dismemberment. Those who are uncomfortable with over-the-top stereotypes should steer way clear of this book. But for the open-minded reader (not limited to militant lesbians), this is one heck of a ride.

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By turns shocking, hilarious, introspective and wrenching, this second compilation of DiMassa's quarterly comic never fails to amaze. Everybody's favorite knife-wielding lesbian is back to avenge her sisters with hair-trigger glee, overdosing on coffee and societal hypocrisy while she hangs out with old friends (resident feline nurturer, Chicken, or Zen-mother Roz) and bounces off new ones. DiMassa's panoptic wit is still needle-sharp and merciless, and her graphic technique continues to evolve: without losing the frenetic looseness of her earlier style, this work features a new, delightful deftness of line. The 30 pages of new art that open this volume prime the Hothead neophyte and provide wickedly nostalgic moments for the devotee before leaning through the contemplative, spiritual window that's the flip side of Hothead's frenzy. Justice never comes without high cost in Hothead's world; her wrath isn't absorbed by a convenient vacuum. Though the unapologetic ferocity is still here in force-the visceral, disturbingly cathartic venting of righteous fury-so is the violence that engendered it. This book presents the struggle against despair, the dilemma of transcendence, and the puckish wisdom of cats. It's full of painfully earned riches for anyone, female or male, gay or straight, who's brave enough to partake.
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Product Details

  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: Cleis Pr; 1st edition (November 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1573440167
  • ISBN-13: 978-1573440165
  • Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,228,713 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Still blowing them all away, January 22, 2003
This review is from: The Revenge of Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist (Paperback)
Hothead Paisan is not your two dimensional superhero, but superheroine she is. She boils all that is wrong with the world down to white guys who oppress everyone else. In a rage that has no equal she takes on the white male establishment with guns, grenades, chainsaws, baseball bats, and any other lethal weapon she can find. Spurred on by enormous doses of caffeine, this urban terrorist roams the city as the body count goes ever higher. Her holy rage is beautifully counterpointed by her cat Chicken, her blind friend Roz, and a deity in a table lamp that calls herself Donna Summer. These three try to bring love and peace to Hothead's tortured soul. The illustrations perfectly portray the highly emotive Hothead and her range of feelings. This second volume contains #s 10-18 of the comix and a 22 page introduction to people who don't have the first volume. But why settle for part when you can have the Complete Hothead Paisan (#s 1-21) published by Cleis Press in 1999?
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!, March 21, 2000
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The Meness (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Revenge of Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist (Paperback)
What can I say that hasn't been said? Bodacious, salacious, outrageous, delicious. You don't have to be a lesbian to love this book either. Straight men should HAVE to read it-- they shouldn't have any more trouble identifying with Hothead than we've had identifying with all those "universal" straight, white, male, ablebodied, middle-class heroes! (Oh, that was sarcasm, btw...)
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars the best comic hero/heroine ever created, January 5, 1999
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I can't imagine anyone reading this comic and not being inspired. Whenever I feel deflated I know that after a fix of Hothead all will be well in my world. I just pray that Diane Dimassa will shortly put us out of our misery with some further tales of Hothead. Chicken for president!!!
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