> A few years ago (c. 1991) Penguin published a
comic-book version of TS =
Eliot's=20
> 'The Wasteland.' A strange enough choice for a comic
book, but even st=
ranger=20
> was that it had been made into a hard-boiled
narrative complete with a =
PI=20
> called Marlow (or Marlowe). Did anyone else on the
list ever read this=
, or is=20
> my memory playing extremely unkind tricks on
me?=20
Must be a consensual hallucination. Actually, it's not
Eliot's
_Wasteland_, but a very witty piss-take of that sort of thing
[spits,
off].
It's by Martin Rowson and is called _The Waste Land_ (London:
Pengugin,
1990).
I have a copy of sitting here beside me that I picked it up
for =A33.95 i=
n
the rather pricey second-hand bookshop at UEA. You could
probably find
a copy for a couple of quid if you dig around in second-hand
bookshops
long enough, especially the 'studenty' ones.
Actually, it's quite amusing, and I'm not an Eliot fan. I
think it
would be enjoyed by the rara-avians, especially those with a
literary
bent. The blurb on the back gives some flavour of what's
inside:
It's April. And Los Angeles Private Eye Chris Marlowe's
partner's been murdered. Seems natural --- after all
April
is the cruellest month, or so they say.
[...] Murder. Lust. Greed. Despair ... And Literary
Criticism. =20
No wonder they called it The Waste Land.
It's great fun for playing spot-the-reference, jammed full of
capital-L
literary stuff, film noir and detective fiction---probably
more fun than
an episode of University Challenge. The artwork is pretty
good too,
just right for the subject matter (better than Miller's _Sin
City_
stuff, IMO---I much prefer Miller's 'proper' drawing in
_Batman_).
Flicking though it now makes me think it might be better than
I thought
it was when I first picked it up about a year ago---I think
I'll read it
again ...
ED
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