Almost Silent (JASON OMNIBUS)

Almost Silent (JASON OMNIBUS)

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<p><strong>A deluxe, hardcover collection of four Jason classics: <em>Meow Baby</em>, <em>Tell Me Something</em>, <em>You Can't Get There From Here</em>, and <em>The Living and the Dead</em>.</strong></p><em>Almost Silent</em> packages four original Jason graphic novels―three of them out of print since mid-2008―into one compact, hardcover omnibus collection. (As the title indicates, this volume favors Jason’s pantomime works.)<br /><br /><em>You Can’t Get There From Here</em>, the longest story of the book (and the only one to be printed in color―well, <em>a</em> color), tells the tale of a love triangle involving Frankenstein, Frankenstein’s Monster, and The Monster’s Bride: Jason cleverly alternates between totally silent sequences involving the three characters and scenes in which Frankenstein’s hunchbacked assistant discusses the day’s events with a fellow hunchbacked assistant to another mad scientist. (You didn’t know they had a union?) <em>Tell Me Something</em> is a brisk (271 panels), near-totally-silent (just a few intertitles) graphic novelette about love lost and found again, told with a tricky mixture of forward- and back-flashing narrative. <em>Meow, Baby!</em> is a collection of Jason’s short stories and gags, and finally, <em>The Living and the Dead</em> is a hilariously deadpan (and gory) take on the traditional Romero-style zombie thriller.<br /><br /> All of these yarns star Jason’s patented cast of tight-lipped (or -beaked) bird-, dog-, cat- and wolf-people, and show off his compassion and wry wit. <em>Almost Silent</em> is a perfect starting point for a new reader wanting to know what the fuss is all about, and a handsome, handy, inexpensive collection for the committed Jason fan. 72 pages in two-color, 228 pages in b&w