Montague Terrace - Softcover

Pleece, Warren; Pleece, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0224090623 ISBN 13: 9780224090629

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2013

Synopsis

Meet the residents of Montague Terrace: landlocked sailors, fake pet psychics, hounded inventors and randy postmen, unsuccessful megalomaniacs, nervous magicians, and 1930s detectives—all under one roof

In Montague Terrace, nothing is quite what is seems. Within its boundaries live an array of strange and extraordinary residents, including Paul Gregory, self-exiled pop crooner holed up in his Montague hovel for close to 40 years, with only fading memories of a semi-successful music career and a bottle of JD for company. Mrs. Beatrice Green, codename Babushka, an aged former special ops agent fighting a new war against overzealous council officials. Marvo the Magic Bunny and Mystical Marvin, a pair of down-on-their luck entertainers, shielding a disturbing past. The Puppeteer, toiling away day and night, pulling the strings of world events and causing chaos out of order. Similar in tone to Black Hole, this book about an extraordinary address comes from legendary veteran graphic artists.

About this title

About the Author:

Warren Pleece and Gary Pleece, legends of the British comics scene, have been working in comics for almost 25 years, since the foundation of their indie comics magazine, Velocity, in the late 1980s. Warren Pleece is best-known for his work for Vertigo, having contributed to Hellblazer, Incognegro, the Invisibles, Sandman Mystery Theatre, and more.

Review:

"This is the kind of comic that demands the reader pay close attention; clues and satirical in-jokes lurk in the corner of every frame. It's also...a book you will want to start reading again almost as soon as you've finished... The Pleece brothers' black and white drawings...have an energy that pulls you along. Their story gets under your skin." -- Rachel Cooke * Observer * "Confidently written - and inked... It's terrific dip-in-and-out-of entertainment." -- Larushka Ivan-Zadeh * Metro * "It's anyone's guess what the commissioning editors are smoking in the graphic novels department of Jonathan Cape, but when the results are this interesting, why inquire?... Total Lynchian disorder... What style!" -- Tim Martin * Daily Telegraph * "The Pleeces have fun with madness- both the `cap' and the mental variety, with a deliberate muddying of the line between reality and the psychological." * Forbidden Planet * "A bleak, if intermittently joyful, mix of social and magical realism, it offers a snapshot of 21st-century stupidity and selfishness." -- Colin Smith * Q Magazine *

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0224090623
• ISBN 13: 9780224090629
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168