'Cut to Melbourne, Australia–the most glamorous city in the world. It also happens to be the only one left standing, but nevermind that, we're there now and I'd like you to meet your narrator, a certain Floyd Maquina, a likable chap with one hell of a story to share. See, the powers that be are knuckling down on the Deviant menace that plagues the city, and our boy Floyd's unknowingly got himself in the thick of it. Cue guns, intrigue, kidnappings, conspiracy and all sorts of general mayhem that make for cracking good headlines. Does Floyd stop the bad guys? Does he get the girl? Does he make Humphrey Bogart proud? Grab some popcorn and read on.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat : The Graphic Novel
Cocoa Bergen
(illustrator),
Melbourne
Tokyo
:
If? Commix
,
2014
21922380
2014
single work
graphic novel
crime
science fiction
'The dystopian Melbourne of 'Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat', pitched some short distance into the future, has the unique distinction of being the only city left in the world. And both Floyd and Laurel are on their last legs.
'Things are not going terribly well in terms of civil liberties, the political climate or the environment. In fact, things are comprehensively messed up on all fronts. This is an overcrowded, polluted metropolis groaning under the control of a government vested in corporate interests and busy herding non-conformists, misfits and the unhealthy into extramural death camps styled as “Hospitals”.
'Hardboiled noir soaks into sci-fi, humour and a touch of tragedy in this visual rejig of the critically lauded 2011 novel — with images constructed by author Bergen and daughter Cocoa — alongside the inclusion of new plot twists.'
Source : publisher's blurb
