Monday, November 17, 2014

The Last Temptation

The Last Temptation

author: Neil Gaiman

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.52

book published: 1997

rating: 4

read at: 2014/11/17

date added: 2014/11/17

shelves: graphic-novels

review:

'Neil Gaiman's The Last Temptation 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition' is a work from earlier in Neil Gaiman's career and was done as a collaboration with Alice Cooper to go along with a concept album. The story is a bit thin, but that could be in service to the album rather than a failing on Gaiman's part.



In a nondescript town, it's Halloween. A young man named Steve is lured into an old theater that only seems to show up at sundown. The Showman runs the theater and wants Steven to stay forever. Steven gets shown a picture of what his life looks like if he doesn't make the choice, and it's a very big temptation to give in to the showman.



The story is told in three acts and is very much an homage to classic Ray Bradbury stories like Something Wicked This Way Comes. Michael Zulli's art is pretty great in this book, and he confesses that at the time, he wasn't as familiar with Alice Cooper. Considering that, he seems to have the persona down solid. Included in this deluxe edition is remastered color, all three scripts and Zulli's black and white thumbnail sketches, Dave McKean's strange covers, and a series of correspondence between Gaiman and Cooper while they were collaborating. As I stated, it's not Gaiman's strongest, but I'm a sucker for these type of stories set at Halloween, so I rather liked it.



I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Diamond Book Distributors, Dynamite Entertainment and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this creepy graphic novel.





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