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Rogan Gosh: Star of the East
Dean Cripps is a regular guy who just wants to order a nice hot curry from waiter Raju Dhawan... until Kali, goddess of death, rips through the Star of the East restaurant and ruins everything. Propelled into a futuristic India, Dean and Raju encounter exotic Hindu deities, sex magic, weird reincarnation, opium dens, Rudyard Kipling, and the mysterious House of Smoke... In...more
Paperback, 60 pages
Published
December 31st 1994
by Vertigo (DC Comics)
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Rogan Gosh: The Acid-Masala Curry Comic
Rogan Gosh is designed to be as incomprehensible to the reader as the original dish must have been for Milligan and McCarthy. The name comes from rogan josh, a spicy Indian curry dish rich in chillies and dangerously red in appearance.
As Grant Morrison says, Rogan Gosh was a product of the new psychedelic period of the nineties. The focus turning from outer concerns to inner ones, along with the presence in many of the artist's lives of the new psychedelic...more
Rogan Gosh is designed to be as incomprehensible to the reader as the original dish must have been for Milligan and McCarthy. The name comes from rogan josh, a spicy Indian curry dish rich in chillies and dangerously red in appearance.
As Grant Morrison says, Rogan Gosh was a product of the new psychedelic period of the nineties. The focus turning from outer concerns to inner ones, along with the presence in many of the artist's lives of the new psychedelic...more
A little bit of Cities of the Red Night and a little bit of Michael Moorcock, and entirely Milligan and McCarthy.
It is an ambiguous telling of several twisted souls whose stories merge in a hallucinatory montage that renders the reader confused as to the real plot. The real question here is, who's dreaming who?
Rudyard Kipling, guilt ridden about the suicide of a servant boy with whom he had improper relations, goes to the House of Smoke. He descends into a drug haze and dreams. He finds Rogan G...more
It is an ambiguous telling of several twisted souls whose stories merge in a hallucinatory montage that renders the reader confused as to the real plot. The real question here is, who's dreaming who?
Rudyard Kipling, guilt ridden about the suicide of a servant boy with whom he had improper relations, goes to the House of Smoke. He descends into a drug haze and dreams. He finds Rogan G...more
To say I like or dislike the book seems a little beyond the point. Even saying I understood this book or didn't seems past it. I suppose the only thing to say is I experienced this book (repeatedly) and didn't dislike the experience.
Rogan Gosh is one of those psychedelic mindfucks that we have grown accustomed to at the hands of someone like Grant Morrison, who does it quite well. In the hands of Milligan & McCarthy, it's handled ably, but too often comes off as a little too self-aware. It's...more
Rogan Gosh is one of those psychedelic mindfucks that we have grown accustomed to at the hands of someone like Grant Morrison, who does it quite well. In the hands of Milligan & McCarthy, it's handled ably, but too often comes off as a little too self-aware. It's...more
Most of the comic is incomprehensible, the result of intertwining 6/7 different stories and trying to fit them all into 50 pages of comic. I was promised Indian sci-fi, and Karmanauts, but most of the ideas end up unrealised. All colour theory is thrown out the window, and the psychedelic style is alluding to the acid house era of the early 90's. What a lovely era to remember!
This wasn't as good as i thought it would be. Was expecting it to be psychedelic which it was but frankly it seems more like a mish mash of stuff that didn't work out as intended.
I am busily reading a lot of Milligan's earlier works whilst trying to catch up with Hellblazer (which he is currently writing for Vertigo, and soon for DC I believe). There are some great stories; Enigma, The Extremist and of course Shade, the Changing Man.. but then I come across this, is it good? Yes. Is it typical Milligan fare? Probably. It's also very strange, almost indecipherably so, it is a great example of experimental story-telling but in my opinion it never really gets off the ground...more
Apr 12, 2008
Lanny
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I'm looking at a 1984 comic called Strange Days that I found while moving some boxes. I remember thinking when I bought this in high school it was the best comic book I had ever seen and expressed every idea I had had up to that point but in a way I could never hope to achieve. I think I am having a similiar experience just looking at the cover of Rogan Gosh. Who in the hell is Brendan McCarthy, and why don't I know more about him?
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Peter Milligan is a British writer, best known for his work on X-Force / X-Statix, the X-Men, & the Vertigo series Human Target. He is also a scriptwriter.
He has been writing comics for some time and he has somewhat of a reputation for writing material that is highly outlandish, bizarre and/or absurd.
His highest profile projects to date include a run on X-Men, and his X-Force revamp that relau...more
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He has been writing comics for some time and he has somewhat of a reputation for writing material that is highly outlandish, bizarre and/or absurd.
His highest profile projects to date include a run on X-Men, and his X-Force revamp that relau...more
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