Honor Among Punks - The Complete Baker Street Graphic Novel

by Guy Davis (Illustrator), Gary Reed

Overview

Honor Among Punks: The Complete Baker Street Graphic Novel presents for the first time in one volume all the classic Baker Street stories that originally appeared in the late 1980s to early 1990s. Baker Street began as an idea of doing a pastiche of sorts on the classic stories from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famed character, Sherlock Holmes. Originally, it was intended to take the stories and modify them to a new world created in an alternate London. The Victorian Age, which in our reality ended at the turn of the 20th century, continued. World War I happened but on a lesser scale, one hardly inciting the moniker of "The Great War." And World War II? Never happened. Adolf Hitler ended up dying as an old man and never engaged in his genocidal crusade across Europe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596878020
Publisher:	ibooks, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/26/2016
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	370
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.10(d)

Editorial Reviews

The contents of this lengthy graphic novel were first published in the '80s and '90s to some acclaim. Baker Street takes place in an alternate version of contemporary London, in a world where the Victorian age simply continued, and the first World War was a minor skirmish, while the second never even occurred. Into this odd, slightly backward reality, Reed and Davis import a modern Sherlock Holmes, in the form of a punk rocker named Harlequin and a Watson given life as a bookish American named Sharon. A slightly naive foreigner, Sharon is our way into the punk world of Reed and Davis's London, which leads into mystery upon mystery. Davis is able to blend the already Victorian sensibilities of the punk and goth esthetics with a dingy architectural vision of the city. It's teeming with inky detail, almost to the point of claustrophobia. Equally adept at subtle characterizations and straightforward, cinematic storytelling, Davis makes the sometimes clunky dialogue a little easier to swallow. Honour Among Thieves is a solid mystery tale given a fun, unique twist by Davis's expressive artwork. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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