Stray Bullets Volume 2: Somewhere Out West (Stray Bullets Tp (Image)), by David Lapham
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Somewhere out West is a town no one knows about-a desert town-whose inhabitants wait for the day a great earthquake will bring them beachfront property. Here, three desperate friends on the run from the Mob and a young runaway Virginia Applejack will try to escape the nightmares of their pasts. They'll band together to battle the demons that threaten to destroy them from within while taking on a corrupt town full of sex, drugs, and inbreeding. Eventually, they'll be forced to make horrifying choices when their dark pasts finally catch up with them....
Stray Bullets Volume 2: Somewhere Out West (Stray Bullets Tp (Image)), by David Lapham- Amazon Sales Rank: #971733 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 10.10" h x .70" w x 6.60" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 240 pages
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Seven shades of noir By Alt The stories in Somewhere Out West collect issues 8 to 14 of the original run of Stray Bullets. The stories follow a complete arc, making this a self-contained volume.In the first story, Orson and Beth and Nina are on the run with suitcases full of money and cocaine that clearly do not belong to them. They decide to hide in a small town called Seaside (which is hundreds of miles from the sea but the mayor is optimistic that California will eventually fall into the ocean). Remaining inconspicuous is a problem, given Beth's propensity to fight with the local trailer trash. But the story is really about the differences between the male and female emotional states when it comes to love and sex. Or maybe just sex.The second story introduces a Seaside loser named Nick who can't pay his bills, can't get laid, and doesn't get any respect until he ... sort of ... develops an image of heroism. This is a nice piece of storytelling that borders on brilliance.The third story features a young girl named Amy who is trying to escape from the people who want to kill her when she has a run-in with murderous clowns. Again, freaking brilliant. Number four, less brilliant but still awesome, goes back to Beth and Nina, revealing a few hours of the lonely lives they've made for themselves.Story 5 brings it all together at the Seaside fair. Amy escapes from the law with the help of a parrot while a bunch of losers make unsuccessful attempts to get laid -- unsuccessful until serious drugs are employed. Clowns make a return appearance but the kill-crazy sheriff and a five-legged cow are highlights. Amy writes story 6, which features a lot of "the end" closings because the only way to find a happy ending in life is to arbitrarily declare that you have reached "the end" of your story whenever something good happens.The climax comes in story 7. All the storylines tie together, background characters take on new importance, and the resolution is ... well, really violent. But in a smart way.This series showcases graphic noir at its best. David Lapham is practically the reincarnation of Will Eisner. The black-and-white art is perfect for the stories that are told. Did I mention that it's brilliant?
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Over the top situations and violence and garishly strange characters By Wayne A McCoy 'Stray Bullets Volume 1: Somewhere Out West' collects issues 8-14 of the comic book series by David Lapham. It's another over the top tale of violence and low lifes and I liked it.The town of Seaside has a boardwalk, but no waterfront. They live in the hopes of a big California earthquake that will bring them the beach and make their property valuable. It's a town in the middle of nowhere populated by nobodys. This makes it the perfect town for Orson, Beth and Nina to hide from the mob in. They've got a suitcase full of drugs, or they did until Nina started helping herself. They have a nosy neighbor kid who is spying through the holes in their floor. They try to hide out and not go stir crazy. Can they stay below the radar, especially with Nina freaking out?Seaside also has a big talking loser named Nick. He talks a good game, but he's not as lucky with the ladies as he lets on. He might get a chance at something if Beth and Nina have anything to say. He might be the distraction they need, but what goes up does come down, or does it?It's all black and white art, and I like Lapham's style. The book is a series of stories that intertwine and weave around each other. Amy Racecar, the psychopath from the first volume, makes an appearance. The situations and violence are quirky and filled with dark humor. The characters are strange and the stuff of garishly bad dreams. I enjoyed the heck out of the first volume and this one too.I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Diamond Book Distributors, Image Comics, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this very good graphic novel.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Comics masterpiece By Sam Quixote The first Stray Bullets book is a masterpiece – is there anything higher than that? The second volume is a double-masterpiece! I LOVED this book. I might run out of superlatives, this comic is that good, so get your umbrellas out because I’m gonna start gushing!It’s 1982 and Orson, the kid we met in the first book who’d just graduated high school, has fallen into a life of crime. With his girlfriend Beth and their friend Nina, they’ve ripped off Harry, stealing a suitcase of blow and heading somewhere out west. They hole up in the strange small desert town of Seaside, which, though landlocked for hundreds of miles in any direction, has residents who believe that when “the earthquake” happens and swallows California, they will be the new coastline!We meet a number of new characters in this book, from Nick, the loutish and dim but generally decent chap who’s destined to become the new sheriff, to Leslie and Lemmy, a pair of scummy residents who prey on young girls. But the life they left behind is eating away at Orson, Beth and Nina, and Nina’s mind begins to unravel, helped on by copious amounts of drugs. With Harry’s boys, Spanish Scott and Monster, on their trail, will our young protagonists get away with their score or pay the price?The first Stray Bullets book was a brilliant collection of loosely-connected short stories spanning some twenty years with a strong crime vibe that made me think of Tarantino’s films. With this second book, David Lapham has shrugged off any such comparisons to make this series its own standalone work. It’s also much less crime-focused, though it still retains a number of those elements, particularly noir. This second volume is still structured like it’s a collection of shorts though they are much more cohesive and form a more-or-less linear narrative set within a year with the same cast.The exception is the Amy Racecar story, or Chapter 3, which is set in the 41st century! The Amy Racecar stories (there was one in the first book too) are a puzzle to me. Are they actually set in the 41st century? Are they flights of fancy from David Lapham? We meet a character who kind of looks like a teenage version of Amy, who calls herself “Amy”, in 1982 – is she “Amy Racecar” and are these 41st century stories her fantasies? Either way, these asides are really fun and, like the other chapters in this book, her story is tied to the town of Seaside.Reading Stray Bullets doesn’t feel like reading a comic – it’s more like watching a movie; a really, really, really excellent movie that totally immerses you. The storytelling is so fluid, well-paced, and succinctly measured, that reading it is an effortless joy. I’m not sure what I liked more, the stories or the characters, but I do know that Lapham creates characters so perfectly realised, I can’t think of an immediate comparison. Will Eisner perhaps?Nina, Orson and Beth’s friend, is the most haunting character portrait in the book. We never see the score that these three pull off, just the aftermath, but we know that someone died, Nina feels responsible and is irreparably scarred from it and is slowly descending into total darkness. Lapham jumps from character to character so we see all viewpoints at the right moments in the story, and so we see Nina through Orson’s eyes, then through Beth’s, other residents of Seaside, and, just once, from Nina herself, catching a glimpse of her nightmarish memories that are slowly killing her.I can’t stress how memorable and disturbing seeing Nina’s deterioration was – it’s one of the most harrowing and powerful characterisations I’ve ever experienced in a comic. It’s a bit like Jennifer Connelly’s transformation in Requiem for a Dream. She goes from being a broken but still-real person, to complete train wreck horrorshow.Watching the first time she rebuffed the sleazy approaches of Leslie and Lemmy, two characters I don’t think I’ve hated more in a comic – because Lapham writes them so well as villains, not because they’re incompetently created – before joining them in all sorts of horrifying ways, was shocking. The way she just gave up her dignity was palpable, and yet she retained a sliver of her old self in some scenes later on – incredible.But I loved the other character portraits too. Orson and Beth have their moments and are one of the most real comics couples I’ve come across – a bit over the top in places, to me anyway, but just because I don’t know people like that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. And the way their arc completes by the end is thrilling, you can’t predict what’ll happen next.Nick is another great character. When we first see him he comes across – like so many of the Seaside residents – as a low life, bumming around a dead-end town, feeding his sybaritic desires. Then Lapham develops him so he comes a more complex character – a hero, a saviour, and a real person.The art of Somewhere Out West is extraordinary. I’m not just talking about the visuals, though Lapham’s expressive characters are amazing, and it’s stunning what he can do with an 8 panel grid (the format of most of the book). But the art of everything from the visuals to the writing, to the storytelling and the layouts – it all comes together in such an inspired way.Stray Bullets is a grown-up book in every sense of the word so I hugely recommend it to everyone “of age” (though it’s fine for later teens). Stray Bullets is both high art and the best entertainment – full marks to David Lapham on every aspect of this book. There’s so much good stuff here to talk about that I know I haven’t done justice to in this review which is why I feel it’s inadequate to say, but I’ll leave it here: this is a special comic.
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