Nature of the Beast A Graphic Novel

by Mansbach, Adam; McGowan, Douglas; Brozman, Owen

• ISBN13: 9781593762452
• ISBN10: 1593762453
• Edition: Original
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-06
• Publisher: Soft Skull

Summary

In the immediate future, an alien race of religious zealots plans to honor their god through the ritualistic annihilation of our planet. Only one person knows this: Milan Marlowe, the world's most powerful man, a megalomaniacal media baron with ideas about how to turn the end of the world into a profit for the company. The only hope for the planet is to meet the invaders according to their own customs and set forth “The Challenge of the Heretic”—a one-on-one gladiator battle for the right to exist. Marlowe launches Beast Wars, a televised interspecies death match tournament to determine Earth’s strongest creature. Enter Bruno Bolo—a brutish but lovable Florida alligator trainer who finds himself navigating a world of feuding black-belt gorilla trainers, corporatized killer sharks, on-call blues combos, phony volcanoes, great space arks, Yeats-quoting pit fighters, and looming alien eradicators. Following the end of a shocking chain of hard knocks, Bruno emerges as Earth’s last, desperate hope. Shot through with sly social commentary and eye-popping action and populated with the most bizarre—yet utterly compelling—cast of characters in recent memory, Nature of the Beast is a stunning visual and literary tour de force.

Author Biography

Adam Mansbach is the author of the number-one New York Times bestseller Go the Fuck to Sleep, which has been translated into forty languages and has sold over three million copies worldwide. His novels include the California Book Award–winning The End of the Jews, and the cult classic Angry Black White Boy, which is taught at more than one hundred schools. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, The Believer, and on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.”

Douglas Mcgowan works as a record producer and screenwriter in Los Angeles.

Owen Brozman lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. You can see more of his work at www.owenbrozman.com.