Omschrijving
Freestyle wrestler The Sledgehammer has never met defeat, not
at the hands of Painkiller, Handsome Jens, Fezzik the Giant, or the
Angel of Death. But over the course of 80 pages, Danish illustrator
John Kenn Mortensen’s surreal black-and-white graphic novel
will take Sledgehammer to the limits of reality, to show that he’s
motivated by far more than hubris — it’s also love.
Mortensen’s first English-language graphic novel delivers on
the promise that his delightfully macabre books of illustration have
previously made for readers around the world. With his spidery
black-ink style, reminiscent of Edward Gorey’s gothic line, we’re
taken to a world in which heavy metal mixes with the WWE by way of
The Seventh Seal and Faust.