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Prison Pit #2

by Johnny Ryan

2009's Prison Pit, Book One was an unadulterated smash hit upon its release at the 2009Comic-Con International, and the balls-to-the-wall series returns this summerwith more action and mayhem like only Johnny Ryan can deliver--again starringCF, the shirtless outer space barbarian antihero who remains damned tothe Prison Pit (a vast wasteland beneath the crust of a barren planet, populatedby the worst of the worst, where violence is the only law and evil creaturesroam free). In this second volume, CF tries to get revenge against the evil behemoththat took his arm, and then winds up playing an unwilling participant inan elaborate escape attempt from the Pit.Prison Pit blends Ryan's fascination with WWE wrestling, grindhousecinema, first person action video games, Gary Panter's "Jimbo" comics, andKentaro Miura's "Berserk" Manga into a brutal and often hilarious showcase ofviolence like no other comic book ever created.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Horror, Humor, Comics Manga, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Paperback

First published September 15, 2010

About the author

John F. Ryan IV (born November 30, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American comics creator, writer, and animator. In a throwback to the days of underground comix, Ryan's oeuvre is generally an attempt to be as shocking and politically incorrect as possible.
Ryan started his career self-publishing Angry Youth Comix, a series of eleven mini-comic issues from 1994 to 1998. In 1998, he began showing his work to Peter Bagge, creator of Hate comics, who introduced the material to Eric Reynolds of Fantagraphics. In 2001, Fantagraphics began publishing volume 2 of the series.
Among Ryan's creations there are the comic strip Blecky Yuckerella and the comic book series Prison Pit.
In animation, Ryan has worked as story editor for the Looney Tuness and co-created the Nickelodeon show Pig Goat Banana Cricket with Dave Cooper. Ryan and Cooper have collaborated on a number of comics as well, usually under the pen name 'Hector Mumbly'.
Ryan's illustrations have appeared in MAD, LA Weekly, National Geographic Kids, Hustler Magazine, The Stranger, and elsewhere. Ryan has also done work for clients such as Nobleworks greetings cards, Rhino Records, and Fox TV. His comics have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese and French.

Reviews

[Richard · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked the first book, but there's nothing new here. Except for rape, which isn't a plus. It's funny, isn't it, that I'm fine reading about murders - I quite enjoy murders - but rape, not so much.

Of course, I realize that Ryan is trying to push our buttons with an immature glee that is admirable. He's punk rock to freak out the squares. It's cute, but getting a little old already.

[Jesús · Rating 1 out of 5]

This just isn’t as edgy or as ironically stupid as it seems to think it is.

[Tom · Rating 5 out of 5]

And a foul pudding it is. With every adolescent boy's fascination with male and female genitalia, body functions, and bodily fluids, Johnny Ryan cranks the ratchet up another notch on his follow-up to "Prison Pit, Book One." That's enough to earn it four stars. But the fact that "Prison Pit" has no socially redeeming qualities makes star number five the icing on the cake. . . Oddly enough, for a book so single-mindedly devoted to the grotesque, its humor is relatively genteel given the fact that the humor never relies on belittling minorities--religious, racial, or ethnic--or women. The ability to be appalled is universal, and speaks to us all. Thank you, Johnny Ryan!

[Tim · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked book one better. The fights and design elements are awful, depraved, and sometimes brilliant. Ultimately, though, it was a bit boring.

[E · Rating 1 out of 5]

The worst thing I have ever read.

[Brian Dickerson · Rating 3 out of 5]

BCDER: 45

Yes, it's like advanced teenage male doodling, but the opening to this arc was masterfully pulled off. I'm not sure there are any redeeming qualities to this series. Perhaps showing life is hard, but never give up? Our some what hero / anti-hero is put through the ringer but never folds...

Although I cringe at some of the subject matter, it's like the car accident that you still gaze upon even though you know you should not. Human nature...

[Chad Brock · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Sean Harding · Rating 2 out of 5]

Is Johnny Ryan a total weirdo?
Does he enjoy psycho weird gross out drawings?
Does this story have any point apart from the above?
Anyway that's part 2.
Johnny Ryan you are a sicko!

[Comixx · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bestial

[Nick LeBlanc · Rating 3 out of 5]

Impressive how Johnny escalates action, weirdness, and gross-out all at the same time. Like those three sliders on his mixing board are chained together. I really don’t think I could recommend this series to anyone. But I’ll keep reading it. So far Vol. 1 is the fav.

[Sam Quixote · Rating 4 out of 5]

Starting with a shot of a monster with a spiked ball for a hand taking a dump, "Prison Pit 2" starts as it means to go on with as much bloodiness and insanity as the first book. The psychopathic monster with a worm for a hand continues his non-story of fighting the monsters of this arid desert landscape and that's basically the book.

Throw in a robot scientist, a woman bird that births a shadow creature, and more blood, and that's the second book underway. Johnny Ryan doesn't seem to have even heard of the word subtlety let alone attempt it and all manner of bad taste can be found within these pages. Plot? What d'you think this is, a real book?

Needless to say I found it as funny and darkly imaginative as the first book and can't wait to read Book 3. Are you a fan of out-there indie comics and unbridled yet thoroughly cartoonish violence? "Prison Pit" is for you.

[Rachael · Rating 1 out of 5]

This series is very one-note at best and offensive at worst. I read three volumes while waiting for a friend in a library and wished I had picked up something else. Oh well, lesson learned. If a series doesn't grab you in the first volume, chances are it won't get better. Don't waste your time.

[Fugo Feedback · Rating 2 out of 5]

Me convenció menos que el 1 pero comparte bastante cualidades. Me gustó el uso del grotesco y macabro. Me gustó la poca concesiones que hace con lector y personajes. Pero el dibujo no me voló la peluca y el mundo que construye, por ahora, no me volvió loco.

[a · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Ruz El]

More of the same, and the description on here makes it sound a lot more involved then it actually is.

[Benjamin Anthony]

awesome book, so much action it keeps hurting and fighting after you close it.

[Roger Mexico · Rating 5 out of 5]

Slooooorg

[Douglas · Rating 4 out of 5]

My god.