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by Francesca Ghermandi One of the brightest lights of modern Italian comics, Francesca Ghermandi combines a gorgeous full-color palette of ultra-stylized graphics with a decidedly hardboiled, but very funny, story sensibility. Jo Tartaglia, who works for a global cleaning-products company, is putting the finishing touches on a revolutionary new fluid that would clean everything at once - the only drawback being that, when mixed with milk, it becomes a deadly poison. Nagged nearly to death by his wife, he falls in with the lovely Virgin Prune, a lady with a shady past who enlists him to get her out from under a villainous loan shark. In typical film-noir style, there are plots within plots, not everyone ends up alive at the end of the story, and those who are dead aren't necessarily dead for good. MATURE READERS SC, 9x12, 80pg, FC |
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