num_pages: 240
description: Paul Pope brings a quiet, old-school sensibility to noisy, postmodern comics with Heavy Liquid. This graphic novel, set in the late 21st century, focuses on all the classic elements of detective and adventure stories: lost love, mysterious clients, a package everyone wants, and a tired, barely willing protagonist. The narrative details--such as the eponymous liquid, which is part munition, part drug, and much stranger than any character imagines--are calculated to foil the reader's assumptions, and the expressionistic artwork blends simple colors with bold lines to draw the eyes onward. It seems safe to say that cyberpunk's not dead. --Rob Lightner
language: English
title: Heavy Liquid
titlecomplete: Heavy Liquid
genres: Graphic Novels Comics, Fiction, Comic Book, Cyberpunk, Comics, Science Fiction, Crime, Graphic Novels, Comix, Sequential Art
ratings_count: 1771
publisher: DC Vertigo