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Coffin Bound Volume 1: Happy Ashes

Dan Watters author Robert Crumb author Ulli Lust author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Image Comics

Published:31st Mar '20

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Coffin Bound Volume 1: Happy Ashes cover

Mad Max: Fury Road meets Neil Gaiman'sSandman in this full-throttle, grindhouse, fantasy epic.

Cars! Guns! Entropy! Izzy Tyburn haspromised the world that if it won't have her in it, it'll have nothing of her atall. Chased by an unstoppable killer, she's re-treading her life, leavingnothing behind but burned rubber, ash... and the sun-scorched bones of those whoget in her way. Ride shotgun on an existential road-trip through the tangled webof a blood-splattered life.

Collects COFFINBOUND #1-4.

"If you like Dan Watters' work onLucifer, this is even weirder..." -NeilGaiman

"Wholly original. Fresh concepts and characterspop up on almost every page, courtesy of Watters' mind and Dani's art. This is aseries to keep your eye on." -EntertainmentWeekly

"It's a gleeful of literary grindhouse comicthat brings to mind Milligan's Arthouse Pulp and notes of Pretty Deadly. Out inAugust. Pre-order now." -Kieron Gillen

"Dani is quite a discovery: the work is veryinventive and actually very careful but the line is alive and organic-the inkjust spills down and branches into the right places. And the language styleWatters launches here is just wonderful-I summon Milch because it's eccentricand neo-antique like his Deadwood speech, rippling with character and drunkenwith its own pleasure... Coffin Bound is a damned joy." -WarrenEllis

"A Lynchian crime chase desert noirfever dream with its own messed up internal logic. Fun." -RobWilliams

"An acid drenched road trip,seeping violence and weirdness of the best kind. Definitely one to check out."—Ollie Masters

"Gorgeous and oddand very much its own unique monster. I am jealous at its filthy strangeness."—Ivan Brandon

"A gore-splattered—but poetic—roadtrip with one of the strangest stripper scenes in comics." —John HarrisDunning

"Dreamlike, mythic, relentless and strange."—Kurt Busiek

"Excellent. Likefinding a weird Alex Cox meets Jodorowsky road movie you didn't know existed.Literate, full of ideas & complimented by Dani's Guéra meets Pope-ishart." —Iain Laurie

"Pure Doom. Watters spins a fantasticKerouac-Ian fever dream with Dani dropping some story chops, solid gesture andmoody blacks. It's a great hook that will take you Under. Coffin Bound Rules!"—Andy Belanger

"Your lessons of life delivered at the end of amuzzle by a choir of grindhouse philosophers laced with the wisdom of deadbirds. I can hardly think of another story so...

"Coffin Bound is a distillate of madness. A slice ofapocalyptic dreamtime cut with engine smoke, acid nihilism and dirty juju. Thisis some top-class necrofuel, my friends, and you need it in your brain-tankpronto." -Si Spurrier

"Coffin Bound is a distillate of madness. A slice ofapocalyptic dreamtime cut with engine smoke, acid nihilism and dirty juju. Thisis some top-class necrofuel, my friends, and you need it in your brain-tankpronto." -Si Spurrier

"Wholly original. Fresh concepts and characters pop upon almost every page, courtesy of Watters' mind and Dani's art. This is a seriesto keep your eye on." -Entertainment Weekly

"Wholly original. Fresh concepts and characters pop upon almost every page, courtesy of Watters' mind and Dani's art. This is a seriesto keep your eye on." -Entertainment Weekly

"It's a gleeful of literary grindhouse comic thatbrings to mind Milligan's Arthouse Pulp and notes of Pretty Deadly. Out inAugust. Pre-order now." -Kieron Gillen

"It's a gleeful of literary grindhouse comic thatbrings to mind Milligan's Arthouse Pulp and notes of Pretty Deadly. Out inAugust. Pre-order now." -Kieron Gillen

"Dani is quite a discovery: the work is very inventiveand actually very careful but the line is alive and organic-the ink just spillsdown and branches into the right places. And the language style Watters launcheshere is just wonderful-I summon Milch because it's eccentric and neo-antiquelike his Deadwood speech, rippling with character and drunken with its ownpleasure... Coffin Bound is a damned joy." -Warren Ellis

"Dani is quite a discovery: the work is very inventiveand actually very careful but the line is alive and organic-the ink just spillsdown and branches into the right places. And the language style Watters launcheshere is just wonderful-I summon Milch because it's eccentric and neo-antiquelike his Deadwood speech, rippling with character and drunken with its ownpleasure... Coffin Bound is a damned joy." -Warren Ellis

"If you like Dan Watters' work on Lucifer, this iseven weirder..." -Neil Gaiman

"If you like Dan Watters' work on Lucifer, this iseven weirder..." -Neil Gaiman

"A Lynchian crime chase desert noir fever dream withits own messed up internal logic. Fun." -Rob Williams

"A Lynchian crime chase desert noir fever dream withits own messed up internal logic. Fun." -Rob Williams

ISBN: 9781534313743

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 318g

144 pages