The Times They Are A-Ending
is both a self-contained work and the first graphic novel in the nine-part Esprit Noir
series. This is the original graphic novel script; it includes an introduction as well as two
afterwords, two appendices, and a map of the fictional city in which it is set.
Christian was a tourist. He also expected to die within days. In this, he was hardly unique.
To pass the time, he visited a whorehouse. But a chance gunfight led him into the sewers, into
darkness, and into death. In the days that followed, he would kill exorbitant numbers. He
would rape. And he would reclaim a city through a power that saw violence as self-expression,
sex as conquest of a more intimate sort, and injustice through eyes colder than Darwin or
Nietzsche ever intended.
A graphic novel about the end of history (in more than one sense), The Times They Are A-Ending
tells a surreal story of violence set in the last days of the year 2000. A work of millenarian
retro-futurism set in a fictional American city, it blends American themes and iconography in a
mélange of pop art and blood.
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148 pages plus introduction. Signed and numbered paperback. $19.99.
Gentle Scorpion Press, 22 November 2001.
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