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SOME IMAGINARY FRIENDS NEVER GO AWAY ’S SEQUEL TO HIS 1996 CLASSIC IS OUT THIS MONTH IN THE FORM OF A GRAPHIC BY MATT POMROY

he 2 miniseries, featuring Tartwork by , is set 10 years after Project Mayhem, the point where the original book, and also the film, ended. “The protagonist”, as The author added: “The he is always referred to in sequel will be told from the... the book, lives a mundane, submerged perspective of suburban life with his wife, Tyler Durden as he observes child and pills. His story the day-to-day tedium of takes place alternately in the narrator’s life. Tyler is the future and the past and something that maybe has he is married to an equally been around for centuries problematic Marla Singer. the ideai of “if you suppress and is not just this aberration They have a nine-year-old that wild, creative part of that’s popped into his mind.” son named Junior, though with millions of readers. The you — that Tyler part of Put on some Pixies, lock the narrator is failing his film adaptation is considered you — do you lose the best the door — it’s good to have son in the same way his dad a modern classic. Talking part of you? Sure, your life is Durden back. failed him. about this illustrated sequel, more stable and safe, but is it is out on May 27 Palahniuk had previously Palahniuk said it will look at a better life?” from Dark Horse Comics indicated that the original novel was largely about absent fathers and how that TWO OTHER NEW(ISH) COMICS WORTH READING affects men. With no distinct — AND NOT A SUPERHERO IN SIGHT. male role-models in their lives, the Narrator and Tyler POSTAL THE FADE OUT Durden had largely accepted A self-policed small Hollywood in the town that operates as ’40s and a writer the role of men in society a haven for fugitive is suff ering from as it has been presented to criminals has its first post-war nightmares, them by advertising. Much off icial murder in 25 a young starlet just of the original Fight Club years. The mayor’s met a suspicious strange son runs death, and maniacal presented as the post off ice and studio moguls, violent the opiate for the emptiness starts to piece things security chiefs and in modern life. together. A cross cover-ups abound. between The Curious Fans of James Ellroy The idea of young men Incident of the Dog in and the seedier side being marginalised in one the Night-Time and of the Golden Age of way or another by modern True Detective, this is Hollywood will enjoy society, and often reacting a dark and interesting the stories, along with chunk of small-town real-life articles at the Both available from imagecomics.com with self-destructive Americana. end of each issue. aggressiveness, struck a note

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