2009 Crimespree Award winner Christa Faust and Novelist Gary Phillips team up to provide a modern take on the Crime Noir genre. Set in Times Square back in the notorious 1980’s when it was the home of New York’s red light district. Sex shops, adult cinemas and strip clubs lined the streets. We follow Roxy Bell, a peepshow booth performer, as she is dragged into the story when a VHS tape is dropped off in her booth, seemingly at random. What follows is a compeling crime story with a slew of supporting characters in this first installment.
Art by Andrea Camerini is sharp and crisp with well rendered characters and city scapes. “Camera” angles on the panels are cinemesque and really make the story visuals pop. Great colouring by Marco Lesko add a lot of depth. Really a well drawn book.
Peepland #1 Interior Page
Some adult content and language as you would expect from the setting and comic’s genre so not for the little ones but also not gratuitous or exploitive. I will definitley be looking for this as a collected volume as it seems like one of those stories best consumed in one sitting.
Issue: Peepland #1 | Publisher: Titan Comics
Writer: Christa Faust & Gary Phillips | Artists: Andrea Camerini & Marco Lesko
Price: $3.99
Martin Boruta has been reading comic books and graphic novels for 50+ years (he reads books without pictures too, just sayin’). A lifelong fan of Captain Canuck, Martin is the curator of The Unofficial Yet Definitive Captain Canuck Comicography website. Since 2016, Martin has been reviewing comic books and highlighting great new Kickstarter projects at First Comics News. Martin’s writting has also been featured in Sequential Magazine. For over two-hundred episodes, Martin enjoyed teaming up with his pals and sharing hosting duties on The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show broadcast on Trent Radio 92.7 CFFF FM in lovely Peterborough, ON Canada, and still available at The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show website. Martin is a founding member of the Canadian Comic Book Alliance. In his various adventures, Martin has demonstrated an innate ability to spell “Erik Larsen” incorrectly.
Martin’s “day job” is owner of Shaw Computer Systems Inc., an Information Technology consultancy firm in Peterborough, ON, specializing in Managed Services for small to mid-sized businesses since 1980.
In the past, Martin served in the Canadian Armed Forces Reserve as a member of the Cadet Instructors List (Cadre), reaching the Queen’s Commissioned rank of Captain, was awarded a Baronship of Sealand, and was ordained as a Reverend in the Universal Life Church while watching an episode of Monster Garage.
