Some of DC's best writers and artists (Brian Azzarello, Tim Bradstreet, et al.) get downright freaky in this trade paperback compiling Vertigo's Gangland series, issues one through four. Presuming (correctly) that we're fascinated by the surreal and often ugly side of crime--"we" being "mature readers"--Gangland drags us through toilet stalls, shallow graves, coke-whore hotel rooms, and even suburban, '70s Orange County for a bloody, postmodern crime spree. With 14 stories in all, the collection delivers all sorts of worthwhile weirdness, including a tongue-in-cheek Mafia wedding, an every-dog-has-its-day K9 tale, and one sketchy transient's perceived(?) struggle against the Worldwide Gangster Robot Radio Brains. --Paul Hughes
Gangland FROM THE PUBLISHER
BAD PEOPLE DOING BAD, BAD THINGS
Since the dawn of time, men have banded together to murder, cheat, and take what's not theirs. These are their stories. Gangland contains fourteen tales of murder and malice by a motley collection of today's top comics creators, including Brian Azzarello, Tim Bradstreet, Peter Kuper, Richard Corben, Joe R. Lansdale, Mark Chiarello, and Dave Gibbons. Crime has never been so entertaining!
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