Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
Fight Club 2 #7
Collapse
X
Collapse
-
Fight Club 2 #7
Fight Club 2 #7
Released by: Dark Horse Comics
Released on: November 25th, 2015.
Written by: Chuck Pahalniuk
Illustrated by: Cameron Stewart
Purchase From Amazon
At this point in this series, things are problematic for Sebastian to say the least. To survive, he has to pretend to be Tyler and after being coached by his shrink, Doctor Wrong, he might just have a shot. If he can pull that off, maybe he can get into Tyler's headquarters and steal his son back. Sebastian also believes that his wife, Marla, is dead. But we know that she's not, she's just on a voyage of self discovery. But Tyler is crafty - did he manage to convince Sebastian that Wrong is really the one behind all of this?
A massive delivery is made to the house. Too big for the guys there to handle. With no fork lift around, they call him… “HIS NAME IS ROBERT PAULSON!†Before you know it, the shambling corpse of their dead Fight Club brother comes out of the ground like a zombie, smashes his way through the house and, in his own graceful way, unloads the crates. The markings on those crates, however, indicate a cargo far more dangerous than any walking corpse could be.
Meanwhile, Sebastian is speeding across Europe with Wrong. The two of them are sitting in the back of a limo, Sebastian's pistol pointed at the doctor. Tyler's on the phone and he warns Sebastian that the doctor is armed while Wrong tells Sebastian about a book called The Sorrows Of Young Werther and how, in the 1700's, it took Europe by storm. Tyler gives an order and Wrong makes his point, a valid one at that. Sebastian, with Wrong's help, starts connecting some important dots although once he falls asleep, his thoughts are no longer his own. He flashes back to traumatic events from his past.
Meanwhile, Marla and her friend board a plane but before it takes off she sips a cocktail and makes a very important phone call….
“Consent creates a game, not a crime.â€
With the series well past the half way mark at this point in time, things are starting to come together and starting to make more sense. There's still plenty of weirdness going on and Pahalniuk is still very much toying around with some meta concepts in this series but the narrative threads are tying up in ways that are as interesting and disturbing as they are darkly comedic. The writing draws you in. It toys with your sympathies a bit by providing ideas that a lot of people will be able to relate to (concern for a child, the possible loss of a loved one, the very concept of searching for identity and purpose) with an intent to take things to such an extreme, that, damn it all if some of what Tyler preaches as his insane gospel starts to make sense.
Stewart's art has been consistent here since the very first issue and that remains the case seven issues in. It's the right mix of solid detail and somewhat cartoonish exaggeration - if the story is going to be over the top it's only fitting that occasionally the artwork go there too. All in all, this series has so far turned out to be so much better than any sequel to Fight Club had a right to be that it's impossible not to recommend it.
As always, read the 'Chaos Report' pages that back up the feature, some interesting dialogue going on in there that's worth reading. Also worth mentioning is the appropriately bizarre collage style cover art, courtesy of series' cover artist David Mack (and the variant cover provided by Duncan Fegredo).Posting comments is disabled.
Categories
Collapse
article_tags
Collapse
- album review (218)
- album reviews (274)
- arrow video (270)
- blu-ray (3225)
- blu-ray review (4138)
- comic books (1392)
- comic reviews (872)
- comics (988)
- dark horse comics (484)
- dvd and blu-ray reviews a-f (1969)
- DVD And Blu-ray Reviews G-M (1711)
- DVD And Blu-ray Reviews N-S (1757)
- DVD And Blu-ray Reviews T-Z (878)
- dvd review (2512)
- idw publishing (216)
- image comics (207)
- kino lorber (385)
- movie news (260)
- review (318)
- scream factory (279)
- severin films (295)
- shout! factory (537)
- twilight time (269)
- twilight time releasing (231)
- vinegar syndrome (496)
Latest Articles
Collapse
-
Edited by: David C. Hayes
Published by: Bear Manor Media
Released on: September 14th, 2022
Purchase From Amazon
Recently published through Bear Manor Media are two books edited by David C. Hayes sure to appeal to the action movie fan that doesn’t need to take things too seriously – Hard To Watch: The Films Of Steven Seagal and Missing The Action: The Films Of Chuck Norris. Hayes provides an introduction to each of the two books, explaining how he...-
Channel: Books And Comics
01-20-2023, 05:04 PM -
-
Released by: Klubb Super 8
Released on: April, 2021.
Author: Rickard Gramfors
Year: 2021
Purchase From Klubb Super 8 Rickard Gramfors's 384 page full-color hardcover book, Do You Believe In Swedish Sin? Swedish Exploitation Film Posters 1951 - 1984, is a true thing of beauty. Written entirely in English, this weighty tome opens with two quick intros, the first of which spends two pages giving readers a brief history of Swedish exploitation cinema, and the sec...-
Channel: Books And Comics
07-18-2021, 11:58 AM -
-
Released by: Dynamite Entertainment
Released on: October 14th, 2020.
Written by: David Avallone
Illustrated by: Dave Acosta
Purchase From Amazon Not caught up? Then you need to pick up volume 1 (which collects the first four issues of this series from writer David Avallone and artist Dave Acosta! For those not hip to these haunted happenings, Doctor Johannes Faust has sent our favorite buxom “hostess with the mostess†travelling through tim...-
Channel: Books And Comics
10-13-2020, 07:24 PM -
-
Dracula, Motherf**ker (Image Comics) Comic Review
Released by: Image Comics
Released on: October 7th, 2020.
Written by: Alex De Campi
Illustrated by: Erica Henderson
Purchase From Amazon Sometimes a good title is all it takes. At the time of this writing, I've just finished cleaning the kitchen, cranked out four reviews that needed to be cranked out, and honestly, I could use a nice little nap right now but then, in my inbox, I see it - a chance to...-
Channel: Books And Comics
07-26-2020, 01:45 PM -
-
Released by: Titan Comics
Released on: July 29th, 2020.
Written by: Michael Green, Mike Johnson
Illustrated by: Andres Guinaldo
Purchase From Amazon The second story arc ends with this issue, but first? A quick recap. Ash was the only one to survive the Replicant attack on the off-world mining colony, through Cleo believed her to be dead and, with no other real options, joined the Replicant rebels. A new Blade Runner named Hythe, who has an arrest warrant for...-
Channel: Books And Comics
07-26-2020, 10:16 AM -
-
Judge Dredd: Control (Rebellion Publishing) Comic Review
Released by: 2000 A.D.
Released on: July 9th, 2020 (digital)/December 10th, 2020 (print)
Written by: Rob Williams
Illustrated by: Chris Weston
Purchase From Amazon Originally published in 2000 AD Progs 2035-2036, Judge Dredd: Control opens with a dramatic scene when a Judge in a small flying craft, an H-Wagon it's called, tracks down and deals with the 'We're All Heart' private heart transplant ...-
Channel: Books And Comics
06-28-2020, 04:50 PM -