Thursday 13 January 2011

Books: Gravel

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Gravel
Vol 1: Bloody Liars
Written by Warren Ellis and Mike Wolfer
Art by Mike Wolfer, Raulo Caceres and Oscar Jimenez

2009



Available now from Islington Libraries
You can reserve this item for free here:
http://www.library.islington.gov.uk/TalisPrism/

Gravel
Vol 2: The Major Seven
Written by Warren Ellis and Mike Wolfer
Art by Mike Wolfer, Oscar Jimenez and Jacen Burrows

2009



Available now from Islington Libraries
You can reserve this item for free here:
http://www.library.islington.gov.uk/TalisPrism/

In the words of the co-creator Mike Wolfer: "First, dispose of everything you know of comic book anti-heroes, their weaknesses, their angst, their personal codes of morality and their inner demons," Wolfer said. "This isn't that book. Now: Picture the hardest bastard you can imagine, a man who wants nothing more than to be left alone in a world that seems to be eternally dragging him into the hell of its political and societal woes. William Gravel is a Combat Magician. But this is not the fuzzy, wand-waving, broomstick-riding kind of magic. It's brutal, it's bloody and it springs from the blackest pit of the occult ever conceived."

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Links: Comic Book Resources interview with Warren Ellis and Mike Wolfer.

Further reading: Desolation Jones, Preacher, Black Summer.

Profiles: Warren Ellis.

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