Athos In America HC

Athos In America HC

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<p><strong>Jason returns with more tales of love and loss among the dog- and cat-headed.</strong></p> Another all-original collection of full-color graphic novellas in the format of <em>Low Moon, Athos in America</em> takes its title from the lead story, a prequel of sorts to the graphic novel <em>The Last Musketeer</em>, in which the seemingly ageless swashbuckler turns up in a bar in 1920 New York and relates the tale of how he went to Hollywood to play himself in a film version of <em>The Three Musketeers</em>. Another tie-in with a previous Jason story occurs in “The Smiling Horse,” in which the characters from the story “&” in <em>Low Moon</em> attempt to kidnap a woman.<br /><br /> Also in this volume: “The Brain That Wouldn’t Virginia Woolf,” a mash-up of <em>The Brain That Wouldn’t Die</em> and <em>Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf</em>, told in reverse chronological order; the Bukowski pastiche “A Cat From Heaven” in which Jason works on his comic, has a reading in a comic book store, gets drunk and makes a fool of himself; the dialogue-free (all the text occurs in thought balloons) “Tom Waits on the Moon,” in which we follow four people (one of them a scientist working on a teleportation machine) until something goes wrong; and “So Long Mary Ann,” a prison-escape love-triangle story. 200 pages of full-color comics