Dream Gang

by Brendan McCarthy, Brendan McCarthy (Illustrator)

Overview

To stop a psychic plague-bomb that threatens to render humanity catatonic and the Dreamfields barren, the last Dream Voyager awakens! When the evil Zeirio commandeers a powerful Dreamship and goes on a rampage throughout the collective mindscape, it's up to a group of psychic travelers known as the Dream Gang to stop him. Written, drawn, and colored by Brendan McCarthy, the co-writer/designer of the motion picture Mad Max: Fury Road, artist and co-creator of The Best of Milligan and McCarthy, contributor to Dark Horse Presents and 2000 AD, and writer/artist of DC Comics' Solo and  Marvel's Spider-Man: Fever! There's a war on for your mind and it's a nightmare-in Brendan McCarthy's astonishing new graphic novel Dream Gang.


"A fever dream of a tale that is gorgeous in its roughness and, like real dreams, leaves the reader guessing as to what the next step is in the story being told."-Comic Book Resources

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506700007
Publisher:	Dark Horse Comics
Publication date:	08/09/2016
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Brendan McCarthy is one of the UK's most gifted graphic novelists. His ground-breaking comics of the early 80s (Strange Days, Skin, Rogan Gosh) as part of 'The British Invasion' paved the way for comics' increasing popularity in Hollywood. He was also one of the pioneers of computer animation, creating the visuals for the 90's computer animated TV series ReBoot, the first long-form digital narrative that preceded Pixar and Dreamworks' later successes.
He has spent more than 20 years working in Hollywood, and is the co-writer and a designer on Mad Max Fury Road. More recently, Brendan has created new graphic novels including Spider-Man Fever (for Marvel), Solo (for DC Comics) and Swimini Purpose, The Zaucer of Zilk, and Dream Gang for independent US publishers. A best-selling retrospective collection of his classic comic book work was released last year, The Best of Milligan & McCarthy. The author lives in Ennis, Ireland, UK.

Editorial Reviews

10/17/2016
In comics McCarthy is best known for his work on Judge Dredd and Solo, but recently gained more fame for co-writing the film Mad Max: Fury Road. In this psychedelic trip through dream-space with plenty of ideas but low stakes, depressed office worker Patrick lives a gray-shrouded life, but when he falls asleep, he's cast into a vivid, fast-paced war of dreams versus nightmares. As the last Dream Voyager, Patrick attempts to save the memory of his childhood friend Terry while also fending off Zeiro, a malevolent entity whose attempts to be made flesh threaten to unravel the dream world entirely. McCarthy's high-concept fantasy mixes Jodorowsky, Moebius, and the madcap misadventures of Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot as punk rock dogs interact with dream superheroes and talking suns. The plot's so esoteric that none of the cataclysmic threats packs much of a punch, but the far-out, vibrant visuals (with coloring from Len O'Grady) create a comic that's as confusingly entertaining as any dream. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly

"A fever dream of a tale that is gorgeous in its roughness and, like real dreams, leaves the reader guessing as to what the next step is in the story being told." -Comic Book Resources

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