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simon spurrier
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Gutsville
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1846. The British barque Daphne, bound for Australia, sails from
Portsmouth; crammed with colonial passengers, aristo-adventurers and
frothing missionaries. Four days from Sydney the waves are wreathed in
sparks, the sky runs like quicksilver, and the very sea seems to open
wide and swallow...
2006. The descendents of the Daphne's passengers eke out a desperate
life in Gutsville: a shanty-city held together with mucal slime and weed.
They live in the belly of a great beast whose exterior none have seen and whose
innards are all they've ever known.
Here in the dark, lit by methane lamps,
harvesting moulds from pus-polyps set into the viscera of an impossible being,
a new culture has arisen: a mongrel-society of Victorian values, religious
doggerel, and survivalist justice...
And always the question – whispered in secret gatherings beyond the eyes
of the watchful Jonahkin priests:
What is the beast..?
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Gutsville is a six part serial released through Image comics.
EPISODE #1 was published in August '07, and followed a month later by a
VARIANT COVER reprint.
Subsequent issues and approximate release dates
are listed to the right.
Gutsville will be collected in its entirety as a trade paperback, and
released (approx) APRIL 2008. Check the BLOG for updates.
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Gutsville marks Spurrier's first foray into US comics (a move quickly followed
by work with both Marvel and D.C.).
It's a creator-owned project which is penciled and coloured by Frazer Irving:
renowned artist of Iron Man, Silent War, Klarion the Witch Boy and Necronauts.
Gutsville has received a stunning response since the launch of its first issue, with
favourable reviews from the likes of SFX magazine,
Deathray,
and Ain't It Cool News.
It was memorably described by Warren Ellis as: "... a beautiful book... A completely mental book.
It reads like China Mieville fisting the corpse of Herman Melville."
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