Athos in America Author:Jason Jason returns with more tales of love and loss among the dog- and cat-headed.Another all-original collection of full-color graphic novellas in the format of Low Moon, Athos in America takes its title from the lead story, a prequel of sorts to the graphic novel The Last Musketeer, in which the seemingly ageless swashbuckler turns up in a ba... more »r in 1920 New York and relates the tale of how he went to Hollywood to play himself in a film version of The Three Musketeers. Another tie-in with a previous Jason story occurs in ?The Smiling Horse,? in which the characters from the story ?&? in Low Moon attempt to kidnap a woman.
Also in this volume: ?The Brain That Wouldn?t Virginia Woolf,? a mash-up of The Brain That Wouldn?t Die and Who?s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, told in reverse chronological order; the Bukowski pastiche ?A Cat From Heaven? in which Jason works on his comic, has a reading in a comic book store, gets drunk and makes a fool of himself; the dialogue-free (all the text occurs in thought balloons) ?Tom Waits on the Moon,? in which we follow four people (one of them a scientist working on a teleportation machine) until something goes wrong; and ?So Long Mary Ann,? a prison-escape love-triangle story. 200 pages of full-color comics« less