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Title: Cowboy Wally Show, The by Kyle Baker ISBN: 1-4012-0050-8 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (10 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not so great Kyle Baker.
Comment: The Cowboy Wally Show was a departure from what I've read from Mr. Baker. Very dry and tounge in cheek humour, which I am usually a fan of, didn't really get me here. The art is up to scratch for Kyle Baker, but the story seemed to plod on for me, with jokes that made me laugh few and far between. If you are at all interested in Mr. Baker's work, I suggest Undercover Genie. Still this book is worth a read, and you will be supporting a very fine talent in our time.
Rating: 4
Summary: "Stupid ? I don't know the meaning of the word !"
Comment: Another one of Kyle Bakers self-contained Graphic Novels, aiming for fans of sarcastic/ironic humor of which there is plenty. Baker likes to secretly criticize and mock everyday society by filling his stories with fictional characters and than make them act (exaggerated, but still) like real persons we see everyday. This is another good example of it.
This is the fictional life-story, brought as a documentary with many flashbacks, of Cowboy Wally. All the way from when his B-career started up till today. Cowboy Wally is a guy who's big, loud and stupid and who got into show-business (and moves around in it) by 'questionable methods' to say the least. That doesn't stop him from bragging about his achievements though (he IS his biggest fan), meanwhile emphasizing "how normal he maintained to be for a star of his caliber'. The reader gets to witness him making really really really cheap movies, him exploiting people who trust him and even ruining Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.
A pretty funny book (especially the last part where it all comes together and the past catches up on Wally) about a fictional TV-character, which satirically mocks real-life TV-personalities. Like in all Baker's books the humor is often very subtle though. The art is pure black-and-white (without tones of gray like in the same author's 'Why I Hate Saturn'). It's nicely detailed and doesn't suffer from the lack of color though. It's comparable to Terry Moore's art in 'Strangers in Paradise'.
Although it's pretty good overall I feel it could have been better with lesser segments in it, but paying more attention to the segments which remained. It looks a little cramped now, as if Baker didn't have as much pages as he really wanted to tell the tale. Nonetheless, for fans of satirical/sarcastic humor this is a good choice AFTER you've read 'Why I Hate Saturn', his better book.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Man, The Myth, The Legend....COWBOY WALLY!!
Comment: The Cowboy Wally Show presents the "Mockumentary" retrospective of the stellar career of TV "Legend" Cowboy Wally. The book unfolds like a real documentary- We get the "Candid Interview" first, followed by a rare screening of his French Foreign Legion epic "Sands of Blood", and, for the finale, a gut-busting screening, (as well as a behind-the-scenes glimpse), of the jail-house retelling of Hamlet, complete with a drag-queen Ophelia, and paper cut-outs filling in for actors. If you don't laugh at the prison scenes ("Hamlet......it's a nickname my mom calls me....") you must be dead. Kyle Baker is a genius!
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Title: You Are Here by Kyle Baker ISBN: 1563894424 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: King David by Kyle Baker ISBN: 1563898667 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Undercover Genie: The Irreverent Conjurings of an ... by Kyle Baker ISBN: 1401201040 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Powers: Anarchy by Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Avon Oeming ISBN: 1582403317 Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Powers Volume 6 : The Sellouts by Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Avon Oeming ISBN: 1582403449 Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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