Black Pearl Books
Last Chance to Catch 'Here's Johnny'
"Hey there. My name is Johnny and this a little film about a horrible and brutal war I've been fighting for the last seven years against the disease Multiple Scrlerosis … "
Let's talk about dread, yeah? And death, too. And while we're throwing bones and crossing phalanges, why don't we kick up some life and love and art and the mad, brilliant spittle of courage, spat fast into the faceless, sardonic perma-grin of the worst thing that ever happened in 2000 AD?
Let's talk about heroes and nemeses, pens and pain, and the lawless lay lines of a central nervous system gone haywire under the neuron-timebomb that is multiple sclerosis. Nothing is forbidden on this planet, this physiology, this life.
Let's talk about Johnny Hicklenton, the celebrated UK artist and inker of Britain's iconic future-copper Judge Dredd, who, in case you haven't wept at CNN or Al Jazeera of late, isn't nearly as fictionally ironic as he once was, Sartre's ubermensch and Orwell's pig, bearing badge and bullets atop bike-burnt blacktop, lawgiver, gunner, judiciary godhead, executioner. Not Johnny's law. No way.
Let's talk about dread, yeah? And death, too. And while we're throwing bones and crossing phalanges, why don't we kick up some life and love and art and the mad, brilliant spittle of courage, spat fast into the faceless, sardonic perma-grin of the worst thing that ever happened in 2000 AD?
Let's talk about heroes and nemeses, pens and pain, and the lawless lay lines of a central nervous system gone haywire under the neuron-timebomb that is multiple sclerosis. Nothing is forbidden on this planet, this physiology, this life.
Let's talk about Johnny Hicklenton, the celebrated UK artist and inker of Britain's iconic future-copper Judge Dredd, who, in case you haven't wept at CNN or Al Jazeera of late, isn't nearly as fictionally ironic as he once was, Sartre's ubermensch and Orwell's pig, bearing badge and bullets atop bike-burnt blacktop, lawgiver, gunner, judiciary godhead, executioner. Not Johnny's law. No way.