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The Last Temptation of Alice Cooper
by
Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author),
Michael Zulli
Steven is afraid. Afraid of ghost stories, afraid of growing up... just afraid. That is, until he meets the mysterious Showman and his Theatre of the Real. Steven takes a ticket and watches the show on a dare, but getting out of the performance will be harder than he ever imagined. And then Steven learns what it is to be truly afraid. Neil Gaiman, internationally acclaimed...more
102 pages
Published
2000
by Dark Horse Comics
(first published 1997)
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A mysterious theatre and a charismatic showman with an uncanny resemblance to Alice Cooper appear down an alley where before nothing stood, tempting a young boy inside for a show he won't soon forget - warning signs anyone? Not if you're a character in a Neil Gaiman book!
The boy is taken on a roller-coaster ride of strange performances in the theatre and when he escapes to the real world is still dogged by a Krueger-esque Cooper who haunts his dreams and waking life. But why is he doing this? S...more
The boy is taken on a roller-coaster ride of strange performances in the theatre and when he escapes to the real world is still dogged by a Krueger-esque Cooper who haunts his dreams and waking life. But why is he doing this? S...more
В провинциальный городок приезжает бродячий театр. Его странный хозяин с белым лицом и длинными немытыми космами каждый день стоит на его ступенях и приглашает прохожих посетить его первое представление. Мальчик по имени Стивен соглашается это сделать, и его жизнь в тот же день меняется окончательно и бесповоротно. Он знакомится с живущей в театре толпой зомби и получает от хозяина небывалое предложение – работа в его театре в обмен на вечную жизнь.
Ощущая какой-то подвох, герой решает проверить...more
Ощущая какой-то подвох, герой решает проверить...more
Neil Gaiman meets the legendary rock and roll star Alice Cooper to collaborate Cooper’s music [his album, The Last Temptation] written into story with this comic book, The Last Temptation [obviously, under the same name of the album]. Because in their time, truth speaking, there aren’t any good comics done. This book is a three-act comic that tells the adventures of the young boy name Steven in the hands of this Showman in his Theatre of the Real or Grand Guiginol.
Steven is afraid. Afraid of gh...more
Steven is afraid. Afraid of gh...more
Fumetto, romanzo, arte, musica: tutto questo e molto altro.
Questa graphic novel è un autentico gioiellino, uno di quelli irripetibili, un esperimento che il caso ha voluto venisse fuori come un capolavoro.
Neil Gaiman è Neil Gaiman: non ha bisogno di presentazioni. Bastano poche pagine per ambientarsi nelle sue storie. Qui il tratteggio del surreale si unisce alla magistrale caratterizzazione del protagonista. Fantasia surreale da un lato e psicologia spicciola dall'altra: Neil Gaiman ha un modo
3.5 Stars
I recently read on someone's blog that it's not good for reviewers to review books without a knowledge of the genre, the author, the series, etc to inform their opinion.
Hrmph.
While I can see why that would be beneficial, on one level at least, I mostly disagree with it overall. I think books can, and should, be judged on their own merit. I think that, if I pick up a book, it needs to stand on its own and not use my previous experience with the author's other books as a crutch. I think...more
I recently read on someone's blog that it's not good for reviewers to review books without a knowledge of the genre, the author, the series, etc to inform their opinion.
Hrmph.
While I can see why that would be beneficial, on one level at least, I mostly disagree with it overall. I think books can, and should, be judged on their own merit. I think that, if I pick up a book, it needs to stand on its own and not use my previous experience with the author's other books as a crutch. I think...more
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Apr 25, 2009
PurplyCookie
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
horror,
graphic-novel
Gaiman meets rock star Alice Cooper in this Halloween tale that originally appeared in the early 1990s. It adapts a story from Cooper's album "Lost in America", to which Gaiman contributed story and lyrics.
Gaiman manages to elevate the most frequent scene in literature -- that of evil tempting innocence and offering fantasies come true, all in exchange for the poor sap's soul -- into something quite unique.
However, this work fell short of my expectation. I really didn't care what happens to St...more
Gaiman manages to elevate the most frequent scene in literature -- that of evil tempting innocence and offering fantasies come true, all in exchange for the poor sap's soul -- into something quite unique.
However, this work fell short of my expectation. I really didn't care what happens to St...more
One of the only 'graphic novels' I have ever read. Of course I had to read it because the music cd it goes hand in hand with is one of my favorite Alice Cooper albums.
When I first read it, I had no idea who Neil Gaiman was or what the big deal was about him. Now I do and it almost makes me want to check out his previous graphic novel work, Sandman (I think).
Anyway, this graphic novel gives a story to a collection of songs. It's a tale about the pull between good and evil that affects one young m...more
When I first read it, I had no idea who Neil Gaiman was or what the big deal was about him. Now I do and it almost makes me want to check out his previous graphic novel work, Sandman (I think).
Anyway, this graphic novel gives a story to a collection of songs. It's a tale about the pull between good and evil that affects one young m...more
Neil Gaiman and Alice Cooper team up in this creepy comic book. The Showman (Alice Cooper in appearance) invites a young man into view his delightful show of horror and the macabre. The boy, in an attempt to prove his bravery to his less than savory friends, goes with the Showman and watches his show, but even once he escapes the theater the show seems to go on. Not only a comic about an ancient evil, but a coming-of-age story as well. It is also a perfect read for the October season, due to the...more
In the tradition of Something Wicked This Way Comes, this graphic novel posits a young boy intrigued by a mysteriously appearing entertainment that is fronted by an equally mysterious showman. Based on a collaboration with real-life showman, Alice Cooper, Neil Gaiman has created an engaging story of temptation that complements Cooper's album of the same name, The Last Temptation.
As the album begins with the song, "Sideshow," where a bored boy longs for some kind of sideshow or freak show, so do...more
As the album begins with the song, "Sideshow," where a bored boy longs for some kind of sideshow or freak show, so do...more
Book signed by Gaiman at the 2005 National Book Festival, where Gaiman was promoting his new Anansi Boys novel. Visited NBF at last minute, tagging along after a friend who had invited me down several times over the course of the preceding week because she really wanted to see the person whose name I heard as: Neil Diamond. I wasn't interested in traveling two hours to meet a singer whose music I'm not interested in, and it was only the night before the festival that she finally said, "I thought...more
Jul 04, 2008
John
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
fantasy,
graphic-novels
I picked the book up on a whimsy. I like Gaiman, and this book looked different from the rest.
The introduction was among the most interesting parts for me, the prose that allowed Gaiman to tell how Last Temptation came about. Helping write a concept album for Alice Cooper sounded exciting and neat, and I imagine it is an opportunity that happens too often. Within the context of the album, the resulting graphic novel take form.
The tale is of Steven, a boy pressed with many fears and threats in hi...more
The introduction was among the most interesting parts for me, the prose that allowed Gaiman to tell how Last Temptation came about. Helping write a concept album for Alice Cooper sounded exciting and neat, and I imagine it is an opportunity that happens too often. Within the context of the album, the resulting graphic novel take form.
The tale is of Steven, a boy pressed with many fears and threats in hi...more
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This book has been on my to-read/to-buy list for a long time. I'm a big Neil Gaiman fan so when I finally saw this book in the bookstore I was pretty "Yay!"
I really liked the introduction. Apparently it was out of print a long time ago and Dark Horse (Yay, Dark Horse!) decided to re-print it. Reading the background information about Alice Cooper and Neil Gaiman's collaboration was really great.
There were some good lines and illustrations in the book. I give it a 3-star is because while I would...more
I really liked the introduction. Apparently it was out of print a long time ago and Dark Horse (Yay, Dark Horse!) decided to re-print it. Reading the background information about Alice Cooper and Neil Gaiman's collaboration was really great.
There were some good lines and illustrations in the book. I give it a 3-star is because while I would...more
For those of you who know me as "Cooper," this book was actually my first exposure to Alice Cooper (aside from Wayne's World, when he was just some rock star I didn't know). It is an amazing work which pays tribute to both the truthful unreality of the theater and the works of Ray Bradbury, two of my longtime passions.
I was actually underwhelmed when I first heard the accompanying album, though You're My Temptation remains one of my all time favorite songs.
I was actually underwhelmed when I first heard the accompanying album, though You're My Temptation remains one of my all time favorite songs.
Unless you're a particular Neil Gaiman fan (which I am) or likewise a fan of Alice Cooper, I might not bother with this. It is another enjoyable example, but by no means outshines Gaiman's other works. However, for those who like Gaiman's style, and are always happy to read more of it, this is a darker than usual example of his typically engaging and entertaining storytelling.
Zulli's artwork is fitting and disturbing and fascinating to look at. Spend some time looking at the art and you won't be...more
Zulli's artwork is fitting and disturbing and fascinating to look at. Spend some time looking at the art and you won't be...more
Not bad, not great either. A bit of a hokey, halloween story. Steven finds a theater that isn't really there. A theater that if he's not careful he'll never be able to leave again. Neil Gaiman and Alice Cooper team up to tell a bit of a ghost story. Pencils by Michael Zulli are wonderful but could have benefitted from a colorist and (dare I say it) a better story. The ending just falls a little flat.
Alice Cooper. Zombies. Theater as a stage for/of life. Tormented teenager: thoughts about personal future, sexual desire, peer pressure. I didn't have the album to put in the background which would've improved the reading experience probably. Sepia-like graphics: really good, detailed, beautiful zombies :) Halloween story - I know somebody who few years back dressed up as Alice Cooper.
i picked up this graphic novel for a bookcase on the letter A. i needed something from the library concerning alice cooper. surprisingly, we had this book that i was unaware of. this one was a pleasant surprise. i loved the way alice cooper is in it. the drawing looks so much like him. the story is great about stealing potential - not souls!
Another comic book collaboration from Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli. With great art from Zulli, it is worth the read, telling the story of a mysterious theater of the macabre run by an Alice Cooper look-alike. I found the plot to be a little anticlimactic, but the art and aesthetics are what makes it worth reading.
Surely not Gaiman's masterpiece, but read while listening to Alice Cooper's CD that goes with it, is an experience. So I recommend getting the CD too as they are meant to be enjoyed together. A cool and interesting collaboration between a master storyteller and an eccentric musician.
I have the original trilogy in comic form from Marvel Music. I picked them up because I adore Alice Cooper (didn't even notice they were by Neil Gaiman) and enjoyed the story a lot.
Only chose this edition as I can't find the original covers/Marvel Music editions on goodreads.
Only chose this edition as I can't find the original covers/Marvel Music editions on goodreads.
This is a story about a haunted theater show that appears at Halloween and steels one child by offering them the prospect of immortality if they remain within the theater. Overall the story line was basic, predictable, not at all scary or gripping. There are a handful of scenes that are complex and beautify illustrated, but otherwise the artwork is less then inspiring.
Nov 16, 2009
Elizabeth
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
graphic-novels-and-manga
A short conceived by Neil Gaiman and Alice Cooper based on the the Alice Cooper record, The Last Temptation.
A mildly spooky Halloween tale about a boy, Steven, who is pursued by the Showman, the leader of a theater group who wants young Steven to join him...forever?
A mildly spooky Halloween tale about a boy, Steven, who is pursued by the Showman, the leader of a theater group who wants young Steven to join him...forever?
Interesting, really nice art, though the story is kind of "dull", everything is black and white, good and bad is clearly defined.
Thus the story is not totally Neil Gaiman, much of it is Alice Cooper.
Anyways, nice art and nice book.
Thus the story is not totally Neil Gaiman, much of it is Alice Cooper.
Anyways, nice art and nice book.
Jun 09, 2010
Ariel
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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Okay....well that was creepy.
This graphic novel might have been one of the most disturbing so far, but honestly, it's kind of innocent, in that it's such a short and simplistic story. Huh.....wonder what that was, Mr. Gaiman...an outburst of imagination?
This graphic novel might have been one of the most disturbing so far, but honestly, it's kind of innocent, in that it's such a short and simplistic story. Huh.....wonder what that was, Mr. Gaiman...an outburst of imagination?
A good, straightforward horror tale about a boy who is lured to the "Theater of the Real" and must find his way out. I hadn't been aware of the Alice Cooper connection until I started reading (I thought the guy on the cover looked sort of like "The Crow"). The artwork was simple and effective.
Being an Alice Cooper fan, I thought this was a great idea for a project. I only wish it had been longer, as there was so much potential for character development. I hope Neil and Alice pick this project back up some day.
http://nhw.livejournal.com/835845.html[return][return]Written by Neil Gaiman in consultation with Alice Cooper, tying in with Cooper's album of the same name. I know almost nothing about Cooper except that he wears make-up. Even so, I really enjoyed this brief tale of Steven, an adolescent who is tempted by the sinister manager of the Theatre of the Real (a Cooper lookalike) with the offer of eternal life at an unspeakable price. It would have been better to read it at Halloween; it would certai...more
Is there really more to say than "collaboration between Alice Cooper and Neil Gaiman"? This story had very Stephen King-esque qualities to it - definitely the nostalgia for youth and the allure of dark magic. The illustrations were so rich, it was easy to forget it's only black and white. From the decaying theater where you could smell the musty velvet curtains to the brisk fall small town streets where leaves and wind cut our protagonist's thin frame, this book managed to evoke the particulars...more
Mar 28, 2012
Cheri Edwards
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
books-i-own,
graphic-novels
I love this graphic novel...comic book...companion book to the cd of same name 'The Last Temptation'...great cd. The latest edition of this book is all in black and white for some reason. I posess the original 3 part comic book/graphic novel.....it's all in beautiful color.
A fun, quick little read, based on, of all things, an Alice Cooper concept album he put together with Gaiman's help. Fun and creepy. Makes me curious about the album.
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