Body Bags

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Summary: Jason Pearson at his best with superb artwork
Review: "Body Bags" collects the mini-series by Jason Pearson, who is rumored to be making a sequel. Anyway, this book features his best artwork and porbably the only collection of just his writing and art talent. The story is action-packed, violent, and at times, funny. I highly recommend this book to comic book fans (in particular the ones that are tired by the mainstream) and sci-fi fans. Anyone looking for a fast, entertaining read could pick this up. It is a generational story of bounty hunters...expect some blood.

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Summary: Killing in the name of ...
Review: I try to keep my reading-selection as divers as possible and sometimes that works out good and sometimes less good, or even pretty bad. In this case it worked out more than satisfying.

Without giving anything vital away, it's about:
A team of two bounty-hunters, nicknamed Clownface (in a hilarious outfit, especially the mask) and Pops, have recently been the target of a hit themselves. One of them was injured and, what's worse, his fiancee got killed during the attack. They want revenge for it but they also need their time to make money. Their financial situation isn't exactly impressing.
To make matters worse, the daughter of Clownface (named Panda) comes knocking on their door after not having seen her father in 10 years. She turns out to have become a smart-mouth and a pain in the butt. AND the wants to join her father and become a bounty-hunter (or like they call it, "bodybagger") herself.

The story itself isn't the most innovating thing you'll ever see, but it's good enough. And what's more important, the book's biggest power is the superb dialoguing (comparible to Brian Michael Bendis', the writer of Ultimate Spiderman and Sam & Twitch among other things). This makes it very humurous without making it a 'funnybook' and keeps it action-packed as well. The art is a bit of a mix between Sam Keith (The Maxx) and Greg Capullo (Spawn), which works out pretty well. A nice extra is that the covers of the original issues are reprinted in the back of they book. Not a 'dealwrapper' but nice-looking nonetheless. Your money's worth.

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Summary: Great book!
Review: This book rocks and I highly recommend it to all comic book fans and anyone who enjoys great artwork. Jason Pearson's story is exciting and his artwork is explosive.