Weathercraft
(eBook)

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    [year] => 2016
    [artist] => Jim Woodring
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    [isbn] => 9781606999776
    [rating] => T
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    [language] => ENGLISH
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    [title] => Weathercraft
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    [pages] => 104
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    [synopsis] => Weathercraft is Woodring's first full-length graphic novel set in the world of his most beloved character, Frank -- indeed, Woodring's first graphic novel, period! -- and it features the same hypnotically-gorgeous linework and mystical iconography.
As it happens, Frank has only a brief supporting appearance in Weathercraft, which actually stars Manhog, Woodring's pathetic, brutish everyman (or everyhog).
After enduring 32 pages of almost incomprehensible suffering, Manhog embarks upon a transformative journey and attains enlightenment. He wants to go to celestial realms but instead altruistically returns to the unifactor to undo a wrong he has inadvertently brought about: The transformation of the evil politician Whim into a mind-destroying plant-demon who distorts and enslaves Frank and his friends. The new and metaphysically expanded Manhog sets out for a final battle with Whim...
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    [series] => Weathercraft
    [publisher] => Fantagraphics Books
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