{"id":66,"date":"2007-03-11T09:40:47","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T09:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=66"},"modified":"2012-07-24T09:54:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T09:54:12","slug":"hwy115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/03\/11\/hwy115\/","title":{"rendered":"HWY.115"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/hwy-115.jpg\" title=\"HWY.115\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/hwy-115.jpg\" alt=\"HWY.115\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Matthias Lehmann<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Fantagraphics Books)\u00c2\u00a0 ISBN 1-56097-733-7<\/p>\n<p>This stirring and deeply disturbing, psycho-thriller employs the form of a road\/buddy movie as hardboiled private detective Ren\u00c3\u00a9 Pluriel hits the highways of France in pursuit of the deadly \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Heimlich Killer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. He hasn&#8217;t gone far when he picks up the flamboyant hitch-hiker Agatha, who reveals that she too is a detective on the trail of the notorious serial murderer.<\/p>\n<p>As they wend their way through the back roads and, at times, history of France, interviewing the killer&#8217;s associates and survivors, they build a tense picture not just of the quarry but also of each other, and realise that the conclusion of the quest won&#8217;t be happy for everybody.<\/p>\n<p>Lehmann&#8217;s dark voyage is gripping and often surreal, and the tension is augmented by the spectacular, moody art, stylishly etched in a powerful scraperboard style. The narrative is blistered with flashbacks, literary diversions and hallucinogenic asides that amplify the dissociative feel of this ostensibly simple tale. This is the author&#8217;s first original graphic novel and it is a bravura performance that will be very hard to top; I eagerly await the attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Characters, stories &amp; art \u00c2\u00a9 2006 Actes Sud. All Rights Reserved.<br \/>\nThis edition \u00c2\u00a9 2006 Fantagraphics Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matthias Lehmann (Fantagraphics Books)\u00c2\u00a0 ISBN 1-56097-733-7 This stirring and deeply disturbing, psycho-thriller employs the form of a road\/buddy movie as hardboiled private detective Ren\u00c3\u00a9 Pluriel hits the highways of France in pursuit of the deadly \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Heimlich Killer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. He hasn&#8217;t gone far when he picks up the flamboyant hitch-hiker Agatha, who reveals that she too &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/03\/11\/hwy115\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HWY.115&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[63,66,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-european-classics","category-horror-stories","category-mature-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4AFj-hwy115","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}