Vertigo Resurrected: The Eaters #1

Vertigo Resurrected

by Peter Milligan (Writer), Art Young (Editor), Bjarne Hansen (Colorist)

Reprinting the 1995 epic of the Quills, an average suburban family who just happens to consume human flesh. Plus: Tales from HEARTTHROBS #3, WEIRD WAR TALES #4, STRANGE ADVENTURES #1 and WEIRD WESTERN TALES #4.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Librarian note:
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name

Peter Milligan is a British writer, best known for his work on X-Force / X-Statix, the X-Men, & the Vertigo series Human Target. He is also a scriptwriter.

He has been writing comics for some time and he has somewhat of a reputation for writing material that is highly outlandish, bizarre and/or absurd.

His highest profile projects to date include a run on X-Men, and his X-Force revamp that relaunched as X-Statix.

Many of Milligan's best works have been from DC Vertigo. These include: The Extremist (4 issues with artist Ted McKeever) The Minx (8 issues with artist Sean Phillips) Face (Prestige one-shot with artist Duncan Fegredo) The Eaters (Prestige one-shot with artist Dean Ormston) Vertigo Pop London (4 issues with artist Philip Bond) Enigma (8 issues with artist Duncan Fegredo) and Girl (3 issues with artist Duncan Fegredo).

Series:
* Human Target
* Greek Street
* X-Force / X-Statix

Reviews

[Anthony · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jeez. I would kill to have been a fly on the wall at this Vertigo pitch meeting.

Milligan: It a book about a family of cannibals on a trip across America.
Vertigo editor: Sounds edgy. Are any of them homosexual?
Milligan: Well, this son is kind of asexual, but he's ten.
Vertigo editor: That works for me. Write it up!

[Ill D · Rating 1 out of 5]

I am beyond shocked an appalled to have read and (even worse!) finished Eaters. Of all the comic book writers that I've enjoyed over the past few months (in my return after a multi-year stint in China/Hong-Kong) Peter Milligan has really stood out as an exceptional writer and an equally talented storyteller. Milligan's Human Target in particular, for me at least, will always stand out as an exceptional work of art in this wide vein of human expression. In painful contradistinction, I am utterly baffled that the same genius of an artist could forge something just so damn awful.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen!

Even though there are some smidgens of goodness/talent that shine through (unlike another completely unredeemable piece of illustrated fecal matter) Eater's is an awful blight on an otherwise stellar career. Akin to basically every single capital sin rolled into one, Eaters is completely offensive at every level.

I wanted to barf, cry, and barf again all at the same time.

It's like everything that could possibly go wrong in a graphic novel, was intentionally done. Maybe this is Milligan's way of trolling everyone in the graphic novel community. Maybe Milligan was (somehow?) getting back at an executive through some bizarre blackmail scheme. Maybe Milligan got his hands on some of that legendary Brown Acid from Woodstock (presumably like another author I hate) and smoked a ball of crack at the same time before setting to work (feverishly of course) upon his demented creation.

Ugh! At least when Victor Frankenstein was making his titular homunculus, he was at least (presumably right?) trying to do something (kinda) good. :/

Much like the mess of Frankenstein, it's like every awful idea ever was tossed in this fetid stew of imaginative fecal matter. And even worse (!!!) it tries to make jokes/light of things that aren't (Ever!) funny. No matter how deadpan, certain things just aren't funny...

-Cannibalism!
-Murder!
-Theft!

And drum roll please...

-More Cannibalism!

And the worst part is that the madness never ends. Ever! Not until the last godforsaken page does the awfulness that is Peter Milligan's, Eaters end.

Verdict: I don't have enough opposable digits to point downward to express my unrelenting displeasure with this book.

[Alvin Ian · Rating 5 out of 5]

A short 1990s comics from Peter Milligan.
But with dark themes that i think is well worth exploring here at 2010s. And the art of Dean Ormston is a fine blend.
Reading this ebook from Comixology app is great, with the guided view format. I do not know if there is still a print copy of this but i'm happy i got one albeit a digital one.
I will recommend this one for those who seek an honest to goodness cannibals, if not an altruistic cannibals.
;-)

[Jordan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dark and funny story about a family of cannibals. What's great is there's no straight man here: the writing of every character is so strange and satirical and funny, it's just a real wacky ride. Even TV news anchors in the background have funny dialogue. He seemed to have fun writing this and it's a nice gross and darkly comical read. Bon apetit!

[Jay · Rating 3 out of 5]

2 chapters of meat eaters!!

1 self involved having presumption about their own way of approaching of being cannibals and another one being full of guilt and regrets.

Neither excites the storyline nor the expressions in the art that great.

Worth reading a once if you haven’t anything on your plate!

[A David · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enjoyable bit of dark comedy, shame about the abrupt ending

[Timo · Rating 4 out of 5]

So dark humor or atleast I did find this funny. Although the story did not carry all the way through and the ending was a bit hasty, this was a nice read.

[Gabriel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Milligan siempre cumple; el dibujo de Ormston acompaña, como es de esperar para sus trabajos de la época. Esto es tan Vertigo que no puede más.

[crowsden · Rating 3 out of 5]

Recommend by a friend, not bad.

[Desire Manara]

Unitario de Milligan y Ormston que tuvo al menos una edición en castellano y dos o más en inglés.

[Al Capwned · Rating 3 out of 5]

OK, I get the satire and everything but let's face it, it's definitely not Milligan's best work.

[Fugo Feedback]

Aunque lo conseguí en la edición original en inglés, subí la versión en castellano porque la estadounidense no se recopiló en libro y por lo tanto, para Goodreads es como si no existiera. Cuando le lea seguro se gane su correspondiente reseña.
Eso sí, qué raro que en la página de ISBN española me marca otros ISBN completamente distintos..

[Mayank Agarwal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ghastly Concept, reading a comic on cannibalism is difficult. Best part was it make's eating human look so natural. The dark humor and good art makes it a interesting read in a sick tale.

[Dony Grayman · Rating 2 out of 5]

One-shot editado en revista.