PRISON PIT BOOK 3 GN (PRISON PIT GN) - Softcover

Ryan, Johnny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1606994972 ISBN 13: 9781606994979

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2015

Synopsis

The balls-to-the-wall series returns with more action and mayhem like only Johnny Ryan can deliver—again starring CF, the shirtless outer space barbarian antihero who remains damned to the Prison Pit (a vast wasteland beneath the crust of a barren planet, populated by the worst of the worst, where violence is the only law and evil creatures roam free). Prison Pit is so deranged and twisted that even the author's plot description, while admirably reflecting the spirit of the book, has to be edited into a sea of asterisks in order to be bearable to normal human beings: "A mysterious new a**hole has descended into the Prison Pit. He's looking for Cannibal F***face and he wants revenge. Revenge for what? Probably for some f***ed up evil s***. But before he can get his hands on the CanMan he's got to battle his way through some pretty vicious motherf***ers. S***'s about to get real." Prison Pit blends Ryan's fascination with WWE wrestling, grindhouse cinema, first-person action videogames, Gary Panter's "Jimbo" comics, and Kentaro Miura's Berserk manga into a brutal and often hilarious showcase of violence like no other comic book ever created.

About this title

About the Author:

Johnny Ryan was born in Boston, MA, and lives in Los Angeles, CA.  He is the co-creator and co-executive producer of the Nickelodeon TV series Pig Boat Banana Cricket.

Review:

“For splatter-movie fans and anyone trying to grok the splatter-movie ethos, not to be missed.”
- Booklist

“This thing is great and an essential read. It is important. Buy buy buy.”
- Nick Gazin, Vice

“Perhaps the best and also craziest comic Johnny Ryan has made yet. I hope he does 1,000 pages of this.”
- Jeffrey Brown

“Prison Pit 2 was TACO’s book of the year in 2010, and Prison Pit 3 is the early frontrunner for 2011. Featuring the series’ characteristic extreme ultra-violence, gore, scatophilia, and brutality, it’s another hit from artist Johnny Ryan.”
- L.A. TACO

“Next to Jughead, Johnny’s about the best thing going on in comic books these days, so don’t be a chump and wait until they make some perverted documentary about him and he’s some hipster darling! ACT NOW!”
- retroCRUSH

“[An] over-the-top, ultra-violent, gross-out juvenile, yet fun and hilarious book... The dialogue that does exist retains his comic sense of disjunction and fights are as demented as you’d expect. This is not a jokey book, but his humor is retained in subtle ways―if you can envision subtle Johnny Ryan humor. ... This is just a balls-out, funny, sicko, good time. My only complaint with Prison Pit is how quickly the story ends, but hopefully the subtitle (Book One) is a promise and not a joke.”
- Lincoln Michel, The Faster Times

“It’s another hundred pages or so of mayhem and violence and crude humor and excellent storytelling and gross drawings. Prison Pit is everything sick and twisted that I love, but am often afraid to admit I love in the form of a comic.”
- Chad Nevett, Comic Book Resources

“Ryan’s line work is at its best in some parts of this volume, showing the ability to continually come up with inventive weird visuals.... The only bad thing about Prison Pit Book 3 coming out is that it will be another year until Book 4 is released...”
- Chad Nevett, Comic Book Resources

“Johnny Ryan draws the bad pictures. Unapologetically and lots of ‘em and I hope to god he never stops. ...Prison Pit... kinda’ sorta’ kicks serious ass. ... The story definitely puts the GORE in phantasmagorical... you can smell it from miles away.”
- Jared Gniewek, Graphic NYC

“Prison Pit: Book 3 is a comic unlike anything you’ve ever read before ― the plot is outlandish, and the artwork is violent, bloody, gory, and completely unapologetic in its brutality.... Rating: 10 out of 10.”
- Edward Kaye, Newsarama

About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1606994972
• ISBN 13: 9781606994979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120
• Editor: Reynolds Eric