This second collection of issues from the W&B comic book finds counselors of the macabre Alanna Wolff and Jeff Byrd dealing with a supermodel who has a super problem; classic monsters in search of a trademark; a Lovecraftian interdimensional monster; and their own love lives. Full of plot twists and puns galore.
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I was about to call Batton Lash at home to ask him what Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre: Case Files vol. II is about, but it was late. So instead I had to find my own copy buried in my crypt of comics. It was then that I remembered: this book is about me! I mean, you get to see me screw up a date with Alanna Wolff, try to convince my bosses to invite Alanna to our bar association convention, and finally put the moves on Wolff & Byrd's secretary. Man, am I a lout! Seriously, this book does, in fact, have a character based on me. Oh, and it's also a funny, well-crafted collection of stories featuring a pair of attorneys who only represent monsters, creatures, and the supernatural. Find out why Batton Lash is a cartoonist everyone is talking about, and why he won't return my calls!
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This 96-page trade paperback collects issues 5-8 of the popular comic book about two lawyers whose clients consist of monsters and the supernatural. Alanna Wolff and Jeff Byrd encounter a variety of clients in this book, including a supermodel under the influence of a svengali-like agency owner; the owner of a freak show who claims to have the original Dracula and Frankenstein's monster on display; Sodd, the Thing That's an It; and a mobster haunted by an obsequious ghost. The stories also delve into the counselors' personal lives. As writer James Robinson has noted, "No one else could write and draw Wolff & Byrd quite like Batton Lash does, with its deft combination of humor, horror, and interpersonal relationships."
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Occult advocacy! But don't ban this book!,
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This review is from: Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre: Case Files, vol. II (Paperback)
As a parttime paralegal, I've encountered a substantial cross-section of practicing attorneys and amazingly, Batton Lash has captured two recurrent personalities in Alanna Wolf (of the startling hairstyle --- how does all of that stay up there! ) and Jeff Byrd (of the droll little barrister school to which Petrocelli and John Grisham both belong). In this, the second volume of their collected cases, these intrepids represent a supermodel against her agent who brings worlds of new meaning to the experession "controlling"; then there's the sideshow barker who claims to have the "real" Dracula on display (after reviving Dracula, the counselors help him deal with immigration problems and assist the Frankenstein family in reclaiming their "stolen" property, a monstrous heirloom) and Sodd, the Thing That's An It, which to longtime comics fans will remind of other marshland monsters like DC's Swamp Thing, Marvel's Man-Thing, and, granddaddy of them all, The Heap. While these are sophisticated stories (Wolff & Byrd began as a strip in the NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL), there's lots of droll humor and even some delightfully on the mark explanations of legal concepts (indeed, I've used a handful of panels a time or two in paralegal seminars and classes). Oh, and I almost forgot my favorite story in this volume in which Alanna and Jeff attend the ever-macabre bar convention, complete with some very scary sexual harassment and the snoozingly horrific panel discussion, to say nothing of the cocktail hour terrors. Not just for attorneys or comics aficionados, but for everyone with a taste for the merrily offbeat.
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