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Books : Complete Clive Barker's Great And Secret Show


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by: Chris Ryall, Gabriel Rodriguez

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781600101212
ISBN: 1600101216
Label: IDW Publishing
Manufacturer: IDW Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 300
Publication Date: January 02, 2008
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Sales Rank: 602695
Studio: IDW Publishing



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Product Description:
Collected here in one deluxe edition is the complete 12-part saga that comprises the comic book adaptation of master of horror Clive Barker's epic journey into the fantastic, The Great and Secret Show. Adapted by Chris Ryall (Zombies vs. Robots) and artist Gabriel Rodriguez (Land of the Dead), this collection presents the ultimate battle between good and evil that spans many decades and dimensions. Also featuring complete cover galleries by Gabriel Rodriguez and Clive Barker, full issue-by-issue annotations by Ryall and more! Also available in a hardcover edition (978-1-60010-110-6).



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - A Synopsis of the novel
As a review of the edition itself, the trade paperback is quite nice indeed. As for the book, the art is stunning, particularly the visions of the metacosm (quiddity, the ephemeris, etc) but the presentation of the narrative is a bit disappointing it reads like a synopsis of Barker's novel. Considering how sprawling and detail obsessed the novel is the comic's style is perhaps unsurprising and given how wonderful the actual novel is calling the comic disappointing is maybe a little misleading, I ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great remaking of the book
I havent read the original book in a decade but loved it. This one was so well done it had me reaching for the sequel to the book.




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