{"id":15537,"date":"2014-08-11T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T04:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?page_id=15537"},"modified":"2023-07-25T14:06:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T13:06:22","slug":"lord-horror-reverbstorm","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/coulthart-books\/lord-horror-reverbstorm\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Horror: Reverbstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lord Horror: Reverbstorm<\/strong>
\nby David Britton & John Coulthart<\/p>\n

ISBN: 978-0-86130-124-9
\nPublished 2012 by Savoy Books<\/a> | 344 pages
\nSee sample pages here<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Trashmen, Surfin\u2019 Bird<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Welcome to the nightmare metropolis of Torenb\u00fcrgen, where New York\u2019s Art Deco architecture has fused with the termination machinery of Auschwitz. In this urban inferno Jessie Matthews is singing Sondheim, James Joyce is at work on a new novel and Lord Horror, ex-Nazi propaganda broadcaster and Torenb\u00fcrgen\u2019s model citizen, is stalking the streets in search of fresh victims for his razors. Murderous apes infest the alleyways, Ononoes feast on the living and the dead, while above the rooftops the Soul of the Virgin Mary drifts like a swollen Lovecraftian dirigible, picking at bodies destined for the charnel furnaces.<\/p>\n

Lord Horror: Reverbstorm<\/em> is a unique graphic collaboration between writer David Britton, the author of four Lord Horror novels, and artist John Coulthart, whose book of Lovecraft-derived comic strips and illustrations, The Haunter of the Dark<\/em>, featured a collaboration with Alan Moore. Reverbstorm<\/em> was originally published in serial form and is now being presented in a single volume for the very first time. Britton\u2019s debut novel, Lord Horror<\/em> (1990), was the last work of fiction to be banned in the UK; an earlier Lord Horror comic series, Hard Core Horror<\/em>, was also banned by a British court in 1995. Coulthart\u2019s death-camp artwork from the final issue in that series appears in Reverbstorm<\/em> as a prelude to the main narrative.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s never been a comic like this surreal collision between Modernist art and pulp aesthetics, a world where Finnegans Wake<\/em> is drenched in Alligator Wine and Picasso\u2019s Guernica<\/em> is invaded by Tarzan\u2019s simian hordes. Ambitious, transgressive and meticulously rendered, Reverbstorm<\/em> is one answer to the eternal question posed by those cultural philosophers, The Cramps: \u201cHow far can too far go?\u201d<\/p>\n

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James Joyce, Finnegans Wake<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Related postings:
\n\u2022 Reverbstorm at Supervert<\/a>
\n\u2022 Reverbstorm in print<\/a>
\n\u2022 James Joyce in Reverbstorm<\/a>
\n\u2022 A Reverbstorm jukebox<\/a>
\n\u2022 Reverbstorm: Bauhaus Horror<\/a>
\n\u2022 Reverbstorm: an introduction and preview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lord Horror: Reverbstorm by David Britton & John Coulthart ISBN: 978-0-86130-124-9 Published 2012 by Savoy Books | 344 pages See sample pages here \u201cSurfin\u2019 bird Bbbbbbbbbbrbrbrbrbrb\u2026awawawawawawawaaaaaah! A-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-ooma-mow-mow Papa-oom-mow-mow!\u201d The Trashmen, Surfin\u2019 Bird Welcome to the nightmare metropolis of Torenb\u00fcrgen, where New York\u2019s Art Deco architecture has fused with the termination machinery of Auschwitz. In this … Continue reading “Lord Horror: Reverbstorm”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15539,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15537","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pq7rV-42B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15537\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}