Video Noire

Rating:
Summary: WEIRD.......
Review: A Xuxa-esque childrens TV-show hostess, "Miss Dready", is in reality a demonic being bent on using the boob-tube to ensnare her young viewers in her web of evil. A harried P.I., investigating the gruesome death of his partner (Gnawed to death by Dready's "Nieces and Nephews"...) is drawn into the ancient battle of Good vs. Evil, and is soon neck-deep in Satanism, Beastiality, Human Sacrifice, and high-tech evil.

Yeah, this IS just as weird as it sounds. The plot verges on ridiculous, but the art, by Eduardo Risso, of 100 Bullets fame, is gorgeous, and there are enough good things about the book, especially the nihilistic ending, that I can give it a MILD recommendation to people looking for something VERY different.
Fans of films like Angel Heart and VideoDrome will probably feel right at home with the lovely Dready.....

Rating:
Summary: Hard to read, nice to look at
Review: Eduardo Risso is an awesome artist. His work on 100 Bullets is phenomenal. Somehow in this book, however, his work is lacking something. I'm not saying this book isn't well drawn, I'm just saying I've seen way better stuff from Risso. Trillo's story (specifically the dialogue) doesn't do much to help Risso's art. I would reccomend this one only to hardcore fans of Risso. Even then It's hard to reccomend.

Rating:
Summary: Nice art, weird story
Review: Let me get this out of the way and say that i bought this for one reason only, Eduardo Risso's art. He's one of the best comic book artists working today. He has won countless awards for his amazing work on the DC comics series 100 Bullets. Though released a year ago from Dark Horse, this book actually precedes 100 Bullets. I believe this was originally released overseas in it's original language in either 1997 or 1999, i can't remember which. So it's older Risso, but still very good. Video Noire is a bizarre story with a female villain who happens to be the host of a children's television show. A detective is killed by her demonic child minions after he takes incriminating photographs of her in order to blackmail her, and his partner is out for revenge. To say anymore would be giving away too much. The writer Carlos Trillo has worked with Risso a few other times as well. I can only imagine what kind of stories those are.With the rising popularity of Risso continuing, i commend Dark Horse for reprinting his foreign work in english. November 2002, Dark Horse is releasing another black and white trade paperback through their Venture imprint by Risso called Cain, which i believe is an even older work than Video Noire, so it should be interesting indeed.