{"id":17740,"date":"2011-01-21T16:32:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T22:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=17740"},"modified":"2011-01-21T16:32:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T22:32:44","slug":"espey-eamon-death-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=17740","title":{"rendered":"Espey, Eamon &#8211; Death Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wormdye.com\/main.html\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/deathdeals1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17741\" title=\"deathdeals1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/deathdeals1-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/deathdeals1-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/deathdeals1-655x1024.jpg 655w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Death Deals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That sample below is the first page of this book, just so you know. Fans of Eamon&#8217;s work already know what to expect, but for everybody else &#8220;proceed at your own risk&#8221; seems like a helpful tip. It&#8217;s not the story picked up from there, as I think it was just setting up what&#8217;s to come. Things start off in a coherent if disturbing fashion: a man dressed up as Santa Claus charms the owner of a house into letting her guard down, and he then proceeds to pull a gun out and shoot her in the head. After this he enters the house, shooting everyone he sees, even the baby and the cats. Then he heads upstairs, kills a couple having sex, a woman jumps out the window to get away from him&#8230; and then things get weird. That&#8217;s right, everything up until then, in this context, WASN&#8217;T weird. From this point on I&#8217;m not even going to try to interpret it (something about being thought a fool if you keep your mouth shut and then opening your mouth and proving it, and yes, I know I garbled that quote in a big way), but I will tell you that it included aliens, a rabbit, bird royalty, a walking vagina creature, more Santa, and plenty of murder. Eamon is one of the more visually inventive folks working in comics today and his comics are always worth a look. Often a re-look after that just to try and piece together what you&#8217;ve just read, but the deeper you try to interpret his stuff, the darker it gets. Hey, this one does have &#8220;Death&#8221; in the title, after all. He&#8217;s still an irreplaceable voice and everybody out there who isn&#8217;t squeamish should still buy his stuff. $4, but I just saw that this is listed as out of stock on the Secret Acres website, but maybe you can still get a copy if you run into the guy at a convention or something.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/deathdeals2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17742\" title=\"deathdeals2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/deathdeals2-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/deathdeals2-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/deathdeals2-667x1024.jpg 667w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/deathdeals2.jpg 1628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Death Deals That sample below is the first page of this book, just so you know. Fans of Eamon&#8217;s work already know what to expect, but for everybody else &#8220;proceed at your own risk&#8221; seems like a helpful tip. It&#8217;s not the story picked up from there, as I think it was just setting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4474,2752],"class_list":["post-17740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-death-deals","tag-eamon-espey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17743,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17740\/revisions\/17743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}