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Review: Terminal City Library Edition HC

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Venture back into Dean Motter and Michael Lark’s Terminal City in this oversized library edition!

The city has been in decline since a group of celebrated adventurers were each disgraced or disappeared into obscurity. Now, a series of strange mysteries brings them together again . . . with explosive results!

Memories, murder, revenge seem to travel throughout this book as old friends reunite. Their consequences for their reunion manifest in the form of murder. Motter gives us a solid graphic novel for geared towards fans of noir and crime stories.

The art by Lark is crisp and clean and reminds me of Metropolis in some ways. The graphic novel takes this almost retro-futurism and fully embracing it throughout the book. Even with it’s considerable length Lark’s art is consistent and delivers.

Story: Dean Motter Art: Michael Lark
Story: 8.0 Art: 8.5 Overall: 8.25 Recommendation: Buy

Dark Horse provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Dark Horse Books Collects The Compleat Terminal City!

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Official Press Release

THE COMPLEAT TERMINAL CITY

CLASSIC SERIES COLLECTED FOR THE FIRST TIME!

October 11, MILWAUKIE, OR—Visionary designer and comics creator Dean Motter (Mister X, Electropolis, Batman: Nine Lives) returns with the purest expression of his patented retro futurism. The Compleat Terminal City collects all fourteen issues of the classic series, originally published in 1996, for the first time.

Terminal City is a place where transistor-tube robots rub elbows with old-time gangsters, where bright, shiny technologies cast deep noir shadows. The city has been in decline since a group of celebrated adventurers—Kid Gloves, the boxer; Monty Vickers, the explorer; Eno Orez, the man of 1,000 faces, and Cosmo Quinn, the human fly—were each disgraced or disappeared into obscurity. Now a series of mysteries involving an unopenable briefcase, a missing link in evolution, a daring lady in red, and an obscene skywriter brings the four men together once again—some on the side of the law, some involved in shady business—with explosive results!

“This is one of the best marriages of story and art I’ve seen in years and an absolute delight to read.”—Alex Ross, artist of Marvels and Kingdom Come

Teaming Motter with celebrated artist Michael Lark (Daredevil, Gotham Central) and cover artist Mark Chiarello, this massive collection reprints the original Eisner- and Harvey-nominated series, along with its sequel, Terminal City: Aerial Graffiti.

The Compleat Terminal City is on sale March 21, 2012.