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Avatar Plug (And Preview) Of The Week: No Hero #6

Published Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:30:29 -0500

Last updated Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:46:26 -0600

Shipping tomorrow from Avatar Press is the next issue of Warren Ellis and Juan Jose Ryp's series, No Hero. The solicitation reads;

The penultimate issue brings the world of The Front Line crashing down around them. Things are falling apart for Carrick Masterson and the Front Line, under attack on all sides. And in the eye of the storm is Josh Carver, who now knows everything about the Front Line – except who's killing them. Unless he's been lying, all along. Unless he's been followed, all along. Unless he was the ticking time bomb, all along!

But from flipping through an online copy I can tell you that it's grotesquely detailed superviolence of a kind Quentin Tarantino would cut off his own nut to achieve. I get the feeling Warren Ellis must have written certain scenes in this comic, then received the original art from Juan Jose Ryp and thought "what have I done?" This is nasty. Miracleman #15-Maximortal-Black Hole nasty, just witgh far more detail and use fo the red palette. Don't read while eating. Don't read after recently eating. I made myself a ham and scrambled egg bagel and that wasn't the brightest idea, I can tell you. Oh and just to warn you even more, No Hero#6 has a climactic scene that makes Crossed's Horsecock skit look positively pre-school.

And it has a very cool opening-libary-wall bit too. But that's not very bloody, so it's hardly worth commenting on. There's a preview below… but the bits I'm talking about occur afterwards…

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