Director Lass Meyer may have disappeared, but his memory lives on in the Trumps of Apocalypse #1, written by Alice Darrow, written in Hugo Blanc colours and depicted. Yes, the good old Las Meyer, over the top, director of violent and erotic drive-in, director of the ’60s and ’70s, and ‘Day’s doll valleys like Mudany, and more, the book feels like a sequel to his legendary film. kill! Kill! , the three main characters were transferred to an apocalyptic setting in 2094.
What about the book, do you ask? Well, if it were a movie, I think the trailer would sound like this, but I can hear a voice that sounds like a slap on a bottle of 120 Proof Whiskey.
“Baby, Belladonna and Babette are bad news, but so are the babies of fascism. This trio of trio is here to wipe it out! A map that will lead you to your worst nightmare with a deadly lasso!
I really liked this book. Because it injects a bit of the rage and playful sexuality of Meyer’s film into the mix. Author/artist Alice Darrow does an incredible job of making the book feel like a true 70’s drive-in experience in book form. The Belladonna looks very similar to Tula. Maybe Belladonna was modeled after her?
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With Mr. Darrow’s sparse use of art and colour, the apocalyptic landscape gives you a vast, barren, scenic view of the threat that could lie around the next corner of the road. She fills the book with surprisingly strange characters and vehicles that push the book into surrealistic territory. All characters are depicted in exaggerated styles, especially babies, Belladonna and Babbet. Belladonna, Babette towers over all the men in the book, comparing Dolly Parton to make him look positive and creepy.
I enjoyed the dynamics between the baby, Belladonna and Babette. It always appears to be a few seconds apart as it tumbles across the desert landscape with Volkswagen beetles. It’s a convenient alliance, as they have to deal with the central patriarchy of power, just as the trio quarrel with each other. In a world where women are unsafe, babies, Belladonna and Babette are evenings in the most violent ways possible, especially in the tense middle section of the book, where three women meet a group of strange (and armed) men in the middle of the desert.
The book guarantees misogynists will anger, but who cares? Brutal violence and vicious dialogue can be seen as a parody of a grindhouse film, but I feel it represents the primitive rage that many women feel in the current state of the world. We live in an age where female bodies are regulated primarily by male lawmakers. Women work in the same job as men and earn money that women feel unsafe as each day passes. Babett and Belladonna embody justice, and they embody power and the freedom of life without limit. They live their lives sideways as they want, they destroy those who get in their way, and the book is incredibly satisfied for it.
This book has the spirit of Las Meyer films. It’s violent, surreal, sexy and incredibly fun.
“Apocalypse Trump” #1 is a brutal and sexy rebellion against patriarchy
Trump in Revelation #1
This book has the spirit of Las Meyer films. It’s violent, surreal, sexy and incredibly fun.
The three main characters (particularly Belladonna) have a unique appearance and it is satisfying to see them tear through the apocalyptic landscape.
Alice Darrow’s art brings the landscape back to life, and her writing guides the essence of what makes a grindhouse style story.
The influence of Las Meyer can be felt throughout the book. TuraSatana would have made a great Belladona.
