Christos Gage's geezer-noir SUNSET would make a great Clint Eastwood
vehicle. The story of an aging Mob thug who is drawn back into a life of
violence after three relatively peaceful decades of living off the
radar is just made for the big screen. On the printed page, it comes off
only slightly less impressive than it would on film. Gage's writing is
spot on, especially before it becomes a Senior Citizen's version of
OCEANS 11. The main problem that I had was the art, by Jorge Lucas. The
entire book is composed of photographic backgrounds, overlaid with
photoshopped bodies, topped by crudely pasted in Celebrity heads. Nick
Bellamy is Jason Statham with added wrinkles, Nick's Son jarringly
alternates between Ben Affleck and Vince Vaughan, with a side of John
Favreau. The most distracting character is Mob Boss Gianelli, who is
illustrated using a variety of Jack Palance photos. The cobbled-together
collage look of the art REALLY distracted me from the story, and lost a
lot of points for the book as a whole.
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