Sunday, September 27, 2015
Sunday, September 13, 2015
SPX 2015
I'll also be signing at the Fantagraphics table:
Saturday, 19th - 3:00 PM
Sunday, 20th - 4:30 PM
Signing | Forbidden Planet NYC
Review | TERROR ASSAULTER: O.M.W.O.T. (One Man War On Terror)
If you can imagine Fletcher Hanks collaborating with Larry Hama or Chuck Dixon on a Jack Kirby-inspired, deadpan G.I. Joe parody that was serialized in the back of Playboy in the late 1980s, well, you’d be pretty darn close to what Marra has come up with here. You’d just have to multiply that by a factor of 10 or 20.
Review | TERROR ASSAULTER: O.M.W.O.T. (One Man War On Terror)
[T]here’s something to be said for subtlety, for a kind of liminal intelligence that requires the reader to do the heavy lifting, to read in between the lines, to draw conclusions that may not be obvious ... This is the mode in which Benjamin Marra’s new graphic novel, “Terror Assaulter (O.M.W.O.T.),” operates. On the surface, there is nothing subtle about Marra’s work- this is a comic whose cover features a sunglasses-clad secret agent with a cigarette dangling from his mouth decapitating a chainsaw wielding barbarian with a samurai sword- but it’s this very lack of subtlety where the intelligence of “Terror Assaulter” lies. Marra plays on genre conventions, drawing from 80s and 90s action films and comics, in what is ultimately a profoundly thoughtful post-structuralist decoding of the social constructs of gender, authority and violence, and the ways in which these ideas collide within popular culture
Review | TERROR ASSAULTER: O.M.W.O.T. (One Man War On Terror)
Fantagraphics' new version of Terror Assaulter: OMWOT is actually a full-length graphic novel expanding on a 32-page mini-comic that Marra put out last year — and that minicomic might be my favorite thing that he's ever done. Like all of Marra's Traditional Comics, it's an over-the-top tribute to the black-and-white boom of the late '80s, but OMWOT takes it a step further. It's the comic that the weird kid in your class would draw after half-watching an "erotic thriller" on cable in 1992, in the absolute best way, and the single greatest gag in the whole thing is that everyone — everyone — is constantly just bluntly stating what they're doing, as they do it, with no inflection or emphasis."
Review | TERROR ASSAULTER: O.M.W.O.T. (One Man War On Terror)
Nothing is spared in this searing and hilarious indictment of US foreign policy over the last decade, whether it be neocon philosophy, the state of American masculinity and sexuality or the male power fantasy in escapist entertainment.
Review | TERROR ASSAULTER: O.M.W.O.T. (One Man War On Terror)
A satirical graphic novel about America’s short-sighted foreign policy and the relationship between sex and violence in American male power fantasies... This preview just scratches the surface of the insanity Marra brings to the pages of this graphic novel, and readers can check out more of this twisted satire when Terror Assaulter (O.M.W.O.T.) hits stands at the end of the month.
Sunday, September 6, 2015
Review | TERROR ASSAULTER: O.M.W.O.T. ( One Man War On Terror)
Josh Bayer reviewed my new book, TERROR ASSAULTER: O.M.W.O.T. (One Man War On Terror), for Bincrawler. Check it out here:
http://bincrawler.tumblr.com/post/128414333311/ben-marra-did-a-talk-to-a-new-class-im-teaching
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