{"id":14397,"date":"2015-12-21T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=14397"},"modified":"2015-12-20T18:52:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T18:52:03","slug":"underworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2015\/12\/21\/underworld\/","title":{"rendered":"Underworld"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy <\/strong>Lovern Kindzierski<\/strong> & <\/strong>GMB Chomichuk<\/strong> (Renegade Arts Canmore Ltd)
\nISBN: 978-1-98782-502-2<\/p>\n

Win’s Christmas Recommendation: A Dark Delight to Savour Forever\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ancient literary classics have always been a fertile source of inspiration for modern artists in all arenas of expression and the works of Homer have especially called out to creators of every stripe.<\/p>\n

Comics have had their fair share of straight adaptations, lesser or greater oblique tributes and a host of imaginative reinterpretations of the proverbially blind bard’s timeless chronicles of heroism and futility, love and adversity, but <\/strong>Underworld<\/strong> adds fresh angles and even darker poetic edges to the saga of a man fighting fate and horror to return to his home\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

A beguiling new foray from Winnipeg-based Lovern Kindzierski (<\/strong>Shame Trilogy<\/strong>, <\/strong>Agents of Law<\/strong>, <\/strong>Tarzan Le Monstre, Star Wars<\/strong>) and GMB Chomichuk (<\/strong>Infinitum<\/strong>, <\/strong>The Imagination Manifesto<\/strong>, <\/strong>Raygun Gothic<\/strong>, <\/strong>Cassie and Tonk<\/strong>), with seductively effective lettering by Ed Brisson, this compelling hardback is crafted in stark monotone and utilises graphic illustration and manipulated photographs to replay <\/strong>The Odyssey<\/strong> on two complementary and contrasting levels\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Following Mike Carey’s scholarly and passionate Foreword<\/em> ‘The Hard Part is Coming Home Again’<\/em> the dark descent and arduous search begins as Hector Ashton<\/em> breaks out of a psychiatric hospital. The golden scion of Winnipeg’s dominant political dynasty has gone badly astray. He has dabbled in corruption, excelled in drug-dealing and barely survived a catastrophic overdose.<\/p>\n

Now he’s loose in the city: lost in the ferocious warrens of the Club District where every evil and depravity can be readily bought and where barely-human monsters abound. However, in his delusional state Hector is convinced that he is Ulysses, travelling from moment to foreordained moment in a hellish, interminable, gods-decreed voyage back to his son and long-suffering, abandoned wife Penelope<\/em>, and bolstered in that armour of hallucination he is more than a match for most of the hazards that await him\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

As he staggers from trial to travail to terrifying titan, it soon becomes clear that the dangers might not be mythical but they are very real.<\/p>\n

The metropolis’s embedded drug-lords and shadowy movers-&-shakers begin arraying even deadlier forces to ensure a weak link in a chain of corruption never makes it to anyone who might listen to the eternal truths buried within his rambling quotes and perorations\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

As much gritty noir-flavoured thriller as fantastic mythical escapade, <\/strong>Underworld<\/strong> overlays the classic poem’s thematic skeleton with a grimy modern visual skin of vice and violence which is chillingly authentic and masterfully evocative, but never forgets that at its core the story is about a fallen hero finding redemption through struggle\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Allegory, metaphor, delusion or vision-gift of cruel and callous gods; Hector’s odyssey is just as epic as his symbolic totem’s ever was; every bit as dangerous and, in the end, just as triumphantly well-earned\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Supported by an Afterword<\/em> from the author tracing the long and winding road of <\/strong>Underworld<\/strong>‘s genesis, Creator Biographies<\/em> and a wealth of sketches and designs, this is a vibrant artistic vision which deserves to be seen by the largest audience possible.
\n\u00c2\u00a9 Lovern Kindzierski, GMB Chomichuk and Renegade Arts Canmore Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Lovern Kindzierski & GMB Chomichuk (Renegade Arts Canmore Ltd) ISBN: 978-1-98782-502-2 Win’s Christmas Recommendation: A Dark Delight to Savour Forever\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 9\/10 Ancient literary classics have always been a fertile source of inspiration for modern artists in all arenas of expression and the works of Homer have especially called out to creators of every stripe. … <\/p>\n

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