Synopses & Reviews
Prison Pit is an original graphic novel from the pen of Johnny Ryan, best known for his humor comic Angry Youth Comix. Prison Pit represents a marked departure from AYC or his Blecky Yuckerella weekly comic strip, combining his love for WWE wrestling, Gary Panter's Jimbo comics, and Kentaro Miura's Berserk manga into a brutal showcase of violence, survival and revenge. Imagine a blend of old-fashioned role playing fantasy games like Dungeons & Dragons crossed with contemporary adult video games like Grand Theft Auto, filtered through Ryan's sense of humor. The book begins with C.F. (his full-name would be too horrifying to reveal here) being thrown into the Prison Pit, a barren negative-zone populated by intergalactic, violent monster criminals. In this first volume, C.F. gets into a bloody slorge war (a slorge is a giant slug that excretes a steroid-like drug called fecid that all the monster men are addicted to) with ultraprisoner Rottweiler Herpes and his henchmen Rabies Bloodbath and Assrat. The ensuing bloodbath is an over-the-top, hyperviolent yet hilarious farce worthy of Ryan's inspiration, Kentaro Miura.
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Prison Pit is the best comic Johnny Ryan has ever drawn. It’s rich, clever, energetic, funny — I don’t think I’ve purely in-my-guts enjoyed another comic so much in 2009... you’ve gotta see it to believe it. --Joe McCullough
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This thing is great and an essential read. It is important. Buy buy buy.Probably too awesome for a lot of people to handle.This week I started reading Prison Pit and ... I ... it ... um ... the thing is ... it’s .... wow. --Chris Mautner
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For splatter-movie fans and anyone trying to grok the splatter-movie ethos, not to be missed.Perhaps the best and also craziest comic Johnny Ryan has made yet. I hope he does 1,000 pages of this. --Jeffrey Brown
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I wish to add my voice to the chorus of those who really, really like Johnny Ryan’s left-hand turn into violent fantasy with the promise of more to come. I hope there are ten more. --Tom Spurgeon
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" is insane; it is a title that simply shouldn't exist outside of a teenager's head. But it does, and it's brilliant. A forgotten level of comedic violence, an absence of exposition and dialogue that all reduces down into a paste of pure barbaric fun." Kevin Scully
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"Perhaps the best and also craziest comic Johnny Ryan has made yet. I hope he does 1,000 pages of this." Comicsphere
Synopsis
Prison Pit blends Ryan s fascination with WWE wrestling, grindhouse cinema, first person action video games, Gary Panter s Jimbo comics, and Kentaro Miura s Berserk Manga into a brutal and often hilarious showcase of violence like no other comic book ever created. "
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The balls-to-the-wall series returns this summer with more action and mayhem like only Johnny Ryan can deliver--again starring CF, the shirtless outer space barbarian antihero who remains damned to the Prison Pit (a vast wasteland beneath the crust of a barren planet, populated by the worst of the worst, where violence is the only law and evil creatures roam free). In Prison Pit: Book Two, the second graphic novel in a trilogy, CF tries to get revenge against the evil behemoth that took his arm, and then winds up playing an unwilling participant in an elaborate escape attempt from the Pit. Prison Pit blends Ryan's fascination with WWE wrestling, grindhouse cinema, first-person action video games, Gary Panter's "Jimbo" comics, and Kentaro Miura's "Berserk" Manga into a brutal and often hilarious showcase of violence like no other comic book ever created.
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A full-on fantasy adventure from Johnny Ryan, inspired by Manga and videogame culture.
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2009's was an unadulterated smash hit upon its release at the 2009 Comic-Con International, and the balls-to-the-wall series returns this summer with more action and mayhem like only Johnny Ryan can deliver--again starring CF, the shirtless outer space barbarian antihero who remains damned to the Prison Pit (a vast wasteland beneath the crust of a barren planet, populated by the worst of the worst, where violence is the only law and evil creatures roam free). In this second volume, CF tries to get revenge against the evil behemoth that took his arm, and then winds up playing an unwilling participant in an elaborate escape attempt from the Pit. blends Ryan's fascination with WWE wrestling, grindhouse cinema, first person action video games, Gary Panter's "Jimbo" comics, and Kentaro Miura's "Berserk" Manga into a brutal and often hilarious showcase of violence like no other comic book ever created.
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The follow-up to the most surprising -- and shocking -- critical smash of 2009!
About the Author
Johnny Ryan lives in Los Angeles, CA, with his wife and his daughter, where he creates the ongoing Angry Youth Comix series. His books include The Comic Book Holocaust, Johnny Ryan’s XXX Scumbag Party, The Klassic Komics Klub, What’re You Lookin’ At?!, Portajohnny, two books (so far) in the Prison Pit series, and four books (Blecky Yuckerella, Back in Bleck, Comics Are for Idiots, "Fuc- --u, -ss --le") in the Blecky Yuckerella series.