The Many Deaths of Barnaby James

by Neil Gibson, Brian Nathanson, Piotr Kowalski (Illustrator)

Overview

Every year, the circus comes to town.

However, "The Black Top" isn't like any you've seen before—its performers were once dead and they've been resurrected by their fearsome ringmaster, AZLON.

BARNABY JAMES, a young gravedigger, requests that Azlon resurrect the love of his (former) life, DELILAH. Time and time again, his pleas are rejected. Frustrated, Barnaby decides to steal Azlon’s magic wand and bring back Delilah himself. On his desperate journey to find her, Barnaby must overcome murderers, cannibals, and sex slavers, not to mention the full fury of Azlon, or he might just find himself dead…again.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506742144
Publisher:	Dark Horse Comics
Publication date:	12/12/2023
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	104 MB
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About the Author

Neil Gibson is a former management consultant, turned writer. He is very passionate about the comic book medium and believes it is one of the most efficient ways to communicate concepts. If you want to annoy him, just mention how you think comics are just for kids - his reaction is a common source of amusement. His mission is to get more and more people to both read and to create comics. He lives in London with his wife, two children and seemingly endless household visitors.

After graduating from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, Brian Nathanson has written screenplays for Disney, Warner Bros, and Universal among others. BARNABY JAMES will be his first graphic novel. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter/boss.

Editorial Reviews

12/11/2023

This perverse fairy tale from Twisted Comics publisher Gibson and cowriter Nathanson, with art by Kowalski (The Witcher series), features the thoroughly nasty escapades of Black Top Circus ringmaster Azlon, who brings people back to life as his performing playthings. When Azlon refuses to revive Delilah Pritchard, the lost love of circus errand boy (and grave robber) Barnaby James, he steals the ringmaster’s magic resurrection stick and flees into a depraved city of killers, sex criminals, and degenerates. Barnaby’s quest to find Delilah’s grave brings him into orbit with multiple side characters whose stories of murder, double-crosses, and debauchery eventually spin together into a grotesque Grand Guignol finale piled high with corpses. The throwback naturalistic comics artwork is startling and effective juxtaposed against the fantastic tale. Best suited for those with strong stomachs (the shock-gore includes cannibalism, pedophilia, and necrophilia), this combines the vaudeville of Neil Gaiman with the ruthless sexual violence of Garth Ennis. It’s a headlong dive into a malevolent world. (Dec.)

Publishers Weekly