Terminal City [Paperback]

Dean Motter (Author), Michael Lark (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: DC Comics (November 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563893916
• ISBN-13: 978-1563893919
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,734,505 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An altenative future world comes to life., March 28, 2000

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James Williams (Newcastle, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Terminal City (Paperback)

Termial City is an award nominated series which is, strangly enough, set in the advanced East Coast US metropolis "Terminal City". This comic revolves around a group of modern day Daredevils, primarily Cosmo Quinn, "the Human Fly" who scales the tallest of buildings as well as living a double life cleaning the windows of such glass towers. The Streamline styling harks back to the thirties, the sky filled with enormous zepplins captained by German aviators, high speed trains cross the Atlantic with the greatest of ease whilst surly dome topped robots keep things running smoothly and on the other hand cause total havoc. This is an another excellent book from Vertigo, very well written and researched as well as paying homage to great authors such as George Orwell and Aldous Huxley.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Zany Retro-Futurist Fun, February 25, 2002

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This review is from: Terminal City (Paperback)

Kind of noirish, kind of retro-futurish (think Art Deco and Streamline design), Terminal City is loose but entertaining story of aging daredevils and a mysterious briefcase. The city is a vividly reimagined New York (complete with Coney Island) with beautiful lines, a monorail, zeppelins, and all manner of lovely to look at decay-here, flyers and newspapers are always billowing in the wind at the edges of panels. The plot is a zany half-baked affair involving a crooked mayor, crooked industrialist, land schemes, a mysterious cases, missing legendary crown jewels, a naive newcomer to town, an old boxer, and too many others to mention. While the hero is nominally Cosmo Quinn, former "Human Fly" daredevil turned window washer, the Grand Hotel-like plot jumps between multiple stories and people. Readers will catch references and homages to Kiss Me Deadly (the pinnacle of noir film), Fawlty Towers (John Cleese's hilarious post-Python British screwball comedy), Tintin (the European comic series), Abbott and Costello, Orwell and Huxley (although this futurist vision is much more benign than theirs), Casablanca, and many others. The art is straightforward and easy to look at, while the colors and vivid and expressive, a very fun experience overall-although the punning gets too cutesy at times.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Grade A story, Grade A art, November 9, 2006

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Arturo Ruiz "Mad About Animation" (Phoenix, Arizona USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Terminal City (Paperback)

Dean Motter has a masterpiece here.
The art is nostalgic and moody and it reminds you of film noir.
So does the story. And this was going on a bit before Sin City.
I really liked this book and fully recommend it.