The Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard by Eddie Campbell and Dan Best

[jason hissong]

Eddie Campbell and Dan Best deliver a funny, interesting, crazy, adventurous story of a 19th century circus performer and make all the parts work, and work well.

It is at once a superhero comic, a romance comic, a comedy, an adventure, a multiverse spanning crossover, a homage to the 19th C and Victorian Era England, a metatext on the nature of comics. It is all of these things and, remarkably, it's own self. A comic impossible to define in any way other than saying, "this is comics."

Eddie Campbell brings his usual imaginative and authoritative painted art to this graphic novel and somehow molds it for every chapter and every character to make them memorable and significant.

This is great comics, no doubt about it. This is what Eddie Campbell does best.

[TIP]

Hunh.

I hadn't even heard of this (and I'm an Eddie Campbell fan).

T
(adds to TO GET list)

[jason hissong]

Hunh.

I hadn't even heard of this (and I'm an Eddie Campbell fan).

T
(adds to TO GET list)

Came out last Wed.

You won't be disappointed.

[TIP]

Came out last Wed.

You won't be disappointed.

[Adam Witt]

I will get this, because if I don't, the man who posted this thread will cut my thumbs off.

It's true!

Also: because Eddie Campbell makes awesome, awesome comics.

[Ziolko]

Sounds like it's right up my alley.

[Adam Witt]

Also, anybody needing a bit more of a lowdown on the book can go here.

[Dark Sasha]

Ordered it. Should be at the book store tomorrow.

[GrandeMaestro Fünke]

Going to Barnes and Noble tomorrow to see if I can find it.

[jason hissong]

Everyone who is getting it please let me know what you think when you read it.