Synopses & Reviews
The Originals follows two best friends, Lel and Bok, as they join the ultimate in-crowd: a glamorous street gang called The Originals. Through them, they enter an exhilarating world of hover scooters, domeshaped nightclubs and only the best in mind-expanding drugs. For Lel especially, it leads to the girl of his dreams and increasingly brutal conflicts with a rival gang that might mean the end for them all.
Written and stunningly illustrated by the co-creator of Watchmen, The Originals captures rebellious youth in all its rush and fatal consequence, chronicling a time when your priorities are what you wear, what you drive and who you date; when perhaps the only thing more important than who your friends are is who your friends hate.
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"The illustrator for some of comics' best writers...has learned well from such collaborators." Booklist
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"As one of the brilliant minds behind DC Comics' canonical Watchmen, Dave Gibbons is a one-man tour de force. He's lent his pen to everyone from Superman and Batman to the Matrix and Alien franchises, to say nothing of collaborations he's had with giants of the industry like Alan Moore, Frank Miller and Stan Lee. But The Originals is one of his most personal works yet, a dystopian look back at Britain's mod explosion, a cultural movement that claimed Gibbons when he was a teenager." Scott Thill, Salon.com (read the entire Salon.com review)