Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre, Case Files, vol. III [Paperback]

Batton Lash (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1997

Beware the Creatures of the Night--They have lawyers! This book collects issues 9-12 of the popular comic book series featuring Alanna Wolff and Jeff Byrd, whose clients are monsters and the supernaturally afflicted. In this volume you'll find great parodies of the X Files and Rosemary's Baby ("I'm Carrying Satan's Child!"), the story of a guardian angel sued for being incompetent (a must for Jack Benny fans!), plus a number of short stories, including "I Married a Quivering Blob of Jelly," and "The Man With His Own Personal Laugh Track."

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Amazon.com Review

Horror and humor are tough to pair without the end product seeming forced and therefore neither scary nor funny. This combining is not a problem for cartoonist Batton Lash, who has been making the frightening funny since the 1979 debut of Wolff & Byrd. Using his two main characters--lawyers who only take cases involving the supernatural--Lash manages to pick apart popular culture and dig deep into touchy issues, all while reveling in the standard tropes of horror comics. In this, the third collection of his bimonthly comic book series, the stories span such subjects as alien abduction (in a dead-on X-Files parody) and a guardian angel being sued for neglect. This book also contains Lash's most controversial issue to date: in a setting reminiscent of Rosemary's Baby, a woman impregnated with Satan's baby weighs the pros and cons of abortion.

About the Author

Brooklyn-born cartoonist Batton Lash created Alanna Wolff and Jeff Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre, for a newspaper strip in 1979. He has been publishing them in comic book form since 1994, and the comics have been collected into several trade paperbacks. The comic has been optioned by Universal Studios for a major live-action motion picture to be titled SUPERNATURAL LAW. Lash has also written a number of comics for companies such a Marvel, Archie ("Archie Meets the Punisher"), and Bongo ("Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror").

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Exhibit A Press (June 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963395440
• ISBN-13: 978-0963395443
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,538,026 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Batton Lash's Lawyers Are Scarier Than My Lawyers!, December 29, 1998

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This review is from: Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre, Case Files, vol. III (Paperback)

What?! You haven't read WOLFF AND BYRD yet? You've got to be kidding! Don't you realize that this is one of the formost funny books of the age? Okay, let me tell you, it's funny, it's punny, it's clever and the art is entertaining. And it's soon to be a summer blockbuster movie from Universal Pictures! How completely cool is that?

So, of course you want to get in onthe ground floor, be the first on your block to be captivated by Alanna Wolff , Jeff Byrd, their secretary Mavis and the ebb and flow (sometimes literally) of their bizarre clients.