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Wendy Pini's Masque Of The Red Death Volume 1 (Wendy Pini's Masque of the Red Death) | 
| Author: Wendy Pini
Publisher: Go! Media Entertainment
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  4 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 184
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 1605100293
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781605100296
ASIN: 1605100293
Publication Date: September 15, 2008
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Product Description
In a decadent, perfect future, Anton Prosper uses his vast fortune and scientific genius to seek the ultimate power of life over death. But when the beautiful prodigy Steffan Kabala enters Prosper's life, he unlocks a tempestuous passion that may send the entire planet hurtling into a bloody maelstrom of destruction.
Wendy Pini, the renowned creator of "ElfQuest," has transformed the classic Edgar Allan Poe story into a tour-de-force of visual storytelling that is hypnotic, hallucinatory, and deeply erotic.
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 Wonderful New Work by Wendy Pini January 2, 2009
2 shop (CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are looking for this new work by Wendy Pini to be ElfQuest think again. This is a wonderful, edgy adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe's short story of the same name.
When I say edgy I mean edgy. It is wonderful to see an artist such as Wendy spread her creative wings on something new and totaly different. It is easy for us as the public, to pigeon hole an artist who is well known for one type of work of art and expression. But to be an artist one must always try new ways of expression. Brava Wendy.
The story is easy to follow as long as you keep in mind that is not earth, but a futuristic plant in another welm. Comparisions to earthlings is not the way to look at this story. Take it on it's own fanciful merit.
I found the book very rich in story and color. Very Poe like.
It seems to be a story of deeper meanings if you scratch below it's surface. Anton is a very complex and rich character. This will be a very interesting story as it unfolds. Wendy is showing us a more complex and deeper side of herself.
All I can say again is Brava Wendy,,,job well done and keep it up.
You don't have to like yaoi to be captivated by this. December 27, 2008
Tavie
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I followed this title as an online comic. Not being a particular fan of the yaoi genre (nor manga in general), I was drawn to this work as a long-time fan of Wendy Pini's Elfquest series. It took a little while for the story to take hold, but the lush tones and textures immediately held my interest, and the story won me over soon after.
It's even better in book form. The heavy, glossy pages really make the colors pop. Wendy's take on the human form has grown more stylized over the years, to charming effect. Her long-limbed men are scrumptious eye candy; the female form is rendered with equal skill.
It's a sexy piece of work, and although I don't think I'll be cruising the slash sites anytime soon, I can see the appeal of ogling a couple of lovely men going at one another. The woman entwines a good limb.
The greatest dazzle comes from her talent at costume design. The costumes alone are eye-poppingly glorious. The sets, like the background paintings in classic animated films, would be beautiful as stand-alone art prints framed on a gallery wall.
Wendy's visual style has evolved over the years, and she's learned to pull off some nifty effects with her digital tools. The tricks she was beginning to explore in the later Elfquest books finally blossom fully in this volume. It's been a joy to see her embrace technology and use it to spin out her vision with increasing precision for us all to see.
I guess you don't have to be a particular fan of manga, yaoi, gothic romance or sci-fi to like this one. I'm not, and I loved it. You just have to appreciate pretty pictures and a tantalizingly drawn-out story.
I'm ready for more.
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