The hidden

Richard Sala

Book - 2011

Eight desperate people are stranded at a snowbound diner. Their phones can only pick up brief and perplexing bits of conversation. The radio is filled with static, although occasional, broken-up bits of news are heard - reports of some sort of global catastrophe. A ninth person arrives, hiking to the diner from his stranded car, where he had been listening to his car radio. A global catastrophe has happened - and an inmate has escaped from a nearby hospital for the criminally insane. Police have warned that he is very, very dangerous ....

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Genres
Graphic novels
Published
Seattle, Wash. : London : Fantagraphics ; Turnaround [distributor] 2011.
Language
English
Main Author
Richard Sala (-)
Physical Description
134 p. : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm
ISBN
9781606993866
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

An unnamed man dreams of a monster. Moments later, the world ends in nightmarish fashion, and the man flees the remains of civilization to hide in a cave, all the while saying, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." Thus begins this new book by cartoonist and illustrator Sala. When a couple named Colleen and Tom, survivors of the recent apocalypse, find him a week later, they wonder who this man is. Even as he leads them to shelter, it is clear the key to their future lies in his past. Sala structures the story of the world's end as a series of gruesome anecdotes told by Colleen, Tom, and other human and inhuman survivors. The story is rarely surprising in its turns, but the fun of reading it comes less through the plot than through Sala's imaginative illustrations. Sala's work is like a fusion of Herge and Charles Addams, yielding a simple, cartoon-like style that makes his moments of gothic horror all the more disturbing. At times, the simplicity of the illustrations creates stiffness where a scene requires motion, and can produce clunky progression between panels. Taken as a whole, however, this is a beautifully pulpy and incredibly imaginative book that gives a fresh spin on a well-used set-up. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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