Reviews of the new Missile Mouse and the new Blammo up today on A Motley Vision.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Red Rocket 7 by Mike Allred
Red Rocket 7 manages to be both more and less ambitious than Allred's better known Madman books. More ambitious because it involved starting a band and recording an album, filming a movie (which I own but have never watched) (of course, that's also true of The Godfather).
Here's what the band sounds like (more), if you don't mind looking at a pretty girl at the same time:
RR7 is also more ambitious in that it tries to marry Allred's popart sensibilities with his love for pop music. Essentially, our title character takes us on tour of rock history.
But it's less ambitious in idea. It takes the depth of Madman's games with religion and faith and reason and hope and despair and just sums them up.
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