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A review by daviddavidkatzman
King City by Brandon Graham
5.0
This is one helluva kickass graphic novel. It collects the twelve individual issues of King City released in 2011. Brandon Graham creates a fantastical sci-fi/fantasy realm where just about anything goes. Beautiful black and white illustrations with a touch of manga and a whole lotta quirky. Outrageously inventive. Thoughtfully constructed, frame by frame. Packed with more puns per page than a novel by Flann O’Brien.
King City stars an … uhm … Expert Thief/Escape Artist/Cat Master/Dude. I said Cat Master!!! What more could you possibly need to know?!?!? He was selected, you see, to … train with these Cat Masters and was …adopted by this cat who … when he injects the cat with … these drug things … well, the cat can do just about anything you can imagine. Cat Periscope, Cat Machine Gun, Cat Cleaver of Death, Cat-a-chute … I mean, seriously. Do you need any other reason to run out and buy this? I think not. It’s just about the coolest comic of all time. Admittedly, the main character is a bit overly obsessed with the female anatomy. Admittedly. He’s a bit juvenile. But HE’S A CAT MASTER!!!! And he did have his heart broken. And his best friend is a one-woman/water-breathing-alien kind of guy, so they sort of balance each other out.
It’s just … one last time … CAT MASTER!!!!
King City stars an … uhm … Expert Thief/Escape Artist/Cat Master/Dude. I said Cat Master!!! What more could you possibly need to know?!?!? He was selected, you see, to … train with these Cat Masters and was …adopted by this cat who … when he injects the cat with … these drug things … well, the cat can do just about anything you can imagine. Cat Periscope, Cat Machine Gun, Cat Cleaver of Death, Cat-a-chute … I mean, seriously. Do you need any other reason to run out and buy this? I think not. It’s just about the coolest comic of all time. Admittedly, the main character is a bit overly obsessed with the female anatomy. Admittedly. He’s a bit juvenile. But HE’S A CAT MASTER!!!! And he did have his heart broken. And his best friend is a one-woman/water-breathing-alien kind of guy, so they sort of balance each other out.
It’s just … one last time … CAT MASTER!!!!
