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Shit and Piss
A journey into a sewage processing plant built on top of the ruins of a failing civilization. The custodian of this horrid place encounters all types of things that should not be.
- GenresComicsHorrorComics Manga
104 pages, Paperback
Published May 17, 2017
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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
June 29, 2017
This is a great comic book by creator Tyler Landry. Despite the title and the fact that it's about a bunch of scatological, literal shit beasts living, dying and loving in a sewage processing plant built on the bones of a dead world this book is beautiful, darkly ponderous and laconically written with restraint. Also good to read on the shitter in case you're wondering. Great horror fiction, great horror art, get it.
July 6, 2018
It's not all bad, but it didn't make it for me, I fell like the existencial twist was a little forced and the I didn't feel involved by the history.
February 11, 2019
A quick black and white comic of sparse text and mostly 9-panel pages.
As the title suggests, Shit and Piss is gross and dark, reducing humanity to our neanderthal roots, to our sinew and bile. Though stylistically pleasing, the art lacks any memorable or especially creative characters, most things are just muscly blobs with odd appendages. Plus, "shit and piss" is about as extreme as the book's content gets, many shades away from even, say, weirdo hot-rod art of the '60s.
As the book's visuals struggle on their own, the text introduces a distraction from an already barely-there narrative. The five chapters don't feel connected until around the fourth, and the story's climax is an intriguing attempt at stitching a narrative together, but it comes off as a rushed afterthought. Stripping away the writing, perhaps a more cohesive visual story might have been possible.
I'd give this author's work another go, given a purely visual story or a collaboration with a writer.
As the title suggests, Shit and Piss is gross and dark, reducing humanity to our neanderthal roots, to our sinew and bile. Though stylistically pleasing, the art lacks any memorable or especially creative characters, most things are just muscly blobs with odd appendages. Plus, "shit and piss" is about as extreme as the book's content gets, many shades away from even, say, weirdo hot-rod art of the '60s.
As the book's visuals struggle on their own, the text introduces a distraction from an already barely-there narrative. The five chapters don't feel connected until around the fourth, and the story's climax is an intriguing attempt at stitching a narrative together, but it comes off as a rushed afterthought. Stripping away the writing, perhaps a more cohesive visual story might have been possible.
I'd give this author's work another go, given a purely visual story or a collaboration with a writer.
May 16, 2024
Really enjoyed the way the book felt almost like a petri dish, illustrating the ways that the systems that make up our world parallel each other in interesting ways. Developed a really nice visual language with harsh darks contrasting harsh whites. That being said, the story felt a bit muddled at times, and seemed to be getting at something more poignant but never quite going all the way there.
April 25, 2019
Love it.
June 30, 2021
Thou rec
December 3, 2022
Interesting enough. Not my general type of story but a friend recommended it. It had some good grotesque art, interesting ideas, and it was short and concise.
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