Poison Flowers and Pandemonium

Poison Flowers and Pandemonium

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  • Create Date:2021-05-09 11:51:25
  • Update Date:2025-09-06
  • Status:finish
  • Author:Richard Sala
  • ISBN:1683962745
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Summary

First up in Poison Flowers is “House of the Blue Dwarf,” a 125-page thriller featuring master criminal the Bloody Cardinal, who leaves a wake of mayhem and madness everywhere he goes。 “Monsters Illustrated” is a fun, 64-page monster movie riff that showcases Sala’s visual imagination。 A young woman in a dusty bookstore reads a strange bestiary — the “book within a book” showcases a series of Sala’s gorgeous watercolor and ink drawings。 But when she gets to the end, she finds the bookseller drives a hard bargain。 “Cave Girls Of The Lost World” is a campy, 60-page romp about a team of young women whose plane crashes in a land forgotten by time and rife with dinosaurs, carnivorous plants, and apemen — but these intelligent, brave, and resourceful women are ready to rumble! Rounding out the book is “The Amazing Adventures of Fantomina Fantomella,” a 45-page graphic novella of violence and non-stop action。 Priest and his mob thought Fantomina was dead。 So how is it that she's come back with a vengeance? Poison Flowers Pandemonium is a perfect showcase of Sala's gorgeous watercolor artwork and his love of B-movie horror, silent film-era archetypes, and femmes fatale。

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Reviews

Andréa

Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss。

Joey

I really enjoy the grotesque and beautiful style of Sala’s work in general, and specifically, I always appreciate the implicit world-building; the backstory is never quite laid out。 I think this collection does a little too much in being self aware of that technique by either offering too much exposition or incorporating meta elements into the plot, and perhaps it only bothers me because of how much I appreciate the minimalism otherwise。Regardless, it’s cool, it’s stylish, it has all the ghoulis I really enjoy the grotesque and beautiful style of Sala’s work in general, and specifically, I always appreciate the implicit world-building; the backstory is never quite laid out。 I think this collection does a little too much in being self aware of that technique by either offering too much exposition or incorporating meta elements into the plot, and perhaps it only bothers me because of how much I appreciate the minimalism otherwise。Regardless, it’s cool, it’s stylish, it has all the ghoulish fiends and heroic vixens that his other books do, and it’s a charming, fun set of adventures。 。。。more