Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Troubled teenager Miguel Torres has had it with life. The only alternative he sees is to willfully slip into a coma. But one year later, Miguel becomes a walking urban legend after he wakes up virtually unchanged--except for his sloth-like pace. Will Miguel find love? Or has he risen from his slumber just to end up another rock and roll suicide?
Synopsis
"SLOTH is a welcome head trip."--ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY"Full of David Lynch-like inversions, haunted lemon orchards and indie rock bands, SLOTH is a tale you read once and immediately read again."--US NEWS & WORLD REPORTEisner Award-winning creator Gilbert Hernandez (Love and Rockets) dazzles with this dark coming-of-age tale available for the first time in trade paperback. One year after slipping into a coma, teenager Miguel Torres awakens to a new world where everything has literally slowed down. Hernandez deftly crafts a hypnotic tale Playboy calls "a slyly magical tale of troubled teens in suburbia."