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Prison Pit #4
Prison Pit: Book Four
116 pages!
As always, a plot summary of the latest installment of Johnny (Angry Youth Comix) Ryan's hugely popular sci-fi-prison-planet-gore-fest-slugfest-a-thon serial must, in order to be presentable to normal, decent human beings, be cut into fine Belgian lace. And so, with apologies: "Cannibal F***face discovers the only way to escape the Caligulon is to brainf*** the Slorge and create a giant, brainless oafchild that only knows how to annihilate everything in its path. And what happens when the Slugstaxx show up and use their nightj*** to turn this mindless monster against CF? Total F***ing Mayhem."
As always, a plot summary of the latest installment of Johnny (Angry Youth Comix) Ryan's hugely popular sci-fi-prison-planet-gore-fest-slugfest-a-thon serial must, in order to be presentable to normal, decent human beings, be cut into fine Belgian lace. And so, with apologies: "Cannibal F***face discovers the only way to escape the Caligulon is to brainf*** the Slorge and create a giant, brainless oafchild that only knows how to annihilate everything in its path. And what happens when the Slugstaxx show up and use their nightj*** to turn this mindless monster against CF? Total F***ing Mayhem."
116 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 17, 2012
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About the author
Johnny Ryan
96 books82 followersJohn 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.
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.
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November 21, 2012
It's more of the same, which means it's pretty good. I still have no idea where this is going to go, if it's going anywhere at all really. I don't care. It's pure and it's good.
January 1, 2015
Hey Amanda, remember when we were talking about watching stupid stuff to relax? This is my equivalent. Except mine has less Flava Flav and senseless violence.
December 19, 2012
insane.
February 3, 2021
Sometimes I winder if this geezer is a 15 year old obsessed with the male appendage.
This again is just weird as, and with copious amounts of violence, gore and weird, very weird stuff.
Not for the faint of heart, nor for the clever of heart I guess, and yet here I am banging sin about it.
I'm persisting for some reason, at least they don't take long to read!
This again is just weird as, and with copious amounts of violence, gore and weird, very weird stuff.
Not for the faint of heart, nor for the clever of heart I guess, and yet here I am banging sin about it.
I'm persisting for some reason, at least they don't take long to read!
February 6, 2023
this issue introduces a character called "undigestible scrotum", our hero proceeds to dismember him and digest said scrotum, with the processing of the remains at the other end of the digestive system vividly depiced. perhaps the quintessence of your mileage may vary
April 19, 2025
I’ll probably get some funny looks for saying this but the art is a little more refined in this collection, and it continues in that vein for the last two issues. Good, transgressive stuff.
Read as a single issue.
Read as a single issue.
December 21, 2017
BCDER: 69
November 8, 2018
This was awesome! I didn't start with volume 1 but I'll definitely check out all the volumes. Be prepared to be a little grossed out but as so often with life beauty comes through pain.
February 13, 2013
The year I waited to read this was so worth the wait. Johnny Ryan and his characters are as brutal and as depraved as ever as gladiators. I love this book.
Of all of the Prison Pits, this was the most confusing to read. I'm actually not sure of what's going on in some of the key fighting scenes. I'll just have to keep reading it over and over.
I laughed out loud and snorted a few times reading this and that's always a guarantee of four stars.
I still think the first one was the best.
I hope to Gawd that this series keeps going.
I just can't get enough of Prison Pit.
It's genius, actually-even with every imaginable body fluid spraying all over the place.
I hope you read it and laugh and track down the other three.
Of all of the Prison Pits, this was the most confusing to read. I'm actually not sure of what's going on in some of the key fighting scenes. I'll just have to keep reading it over and over.
I laughed out loud and snorted a few times reading this and that's always a guarantee of four stars.
I still think the first one was the best.
I hope to Gawd that this series keeps going.
I just can't get enough of Prison Pit.
It's genius, actually-even with every imaginable body fluid spraying all over the place.
I hope you read it and laugh and track down the other three.
August 29, 2016
There’s no surprises left in this series besides what Ryan chooses to do with the plot, and while that definitely limits the levels on which Prison Pit can work on its audience–it’s hard to explain how intense the surprise was for a follower of Angry Youth and Ryan’s humiliation comics to open that first Prison Pit (that experience is impossible to repeat, short of Ryan going the other direction entirely and writing chaste Spider-Man scripts for Eddie Barrows to draw)–it doesn’t take away from the ease with which this volume delivers. We’re supposedly nearer the conclusion then we are the beginning, but you could’ve fooled me.
November 14, 2012
More spewage, carnage, toxin-spitting genitals, amok-ness and mayhem, all in breath-taking black and white. If only Cannibal Fuckface and Blecky Yuckarella could find each other and unite for eternity!
January 20, 2013
Johnny Ryan delivers another dose of pure, unbridled, insanity.
If you've ever wanted to read a comic where a guy called Cannibal Fuckface teaches a guy called Undigestible Scrotum not to put ideas in his head, then this is the book for you.
If you've ever wanted to read a comic where a guy called Cannibal Fuckface teaches a guy called Undigestible Scrotum not to put ideas in his head, then this is the book for you.
September 17, 2012
Just as good as the others, funny as shit.
November 27, 2012
Gross. Violent. Hilarious.
Can't wait for Volume 5.
November 20, 2012
if this isn't the best comic being published today, then i don't know what the heck is.
July 1, 2015
Interesting!
I see now that the serie has been nominated to an Award for Outstanding ideas in graphic novels!
Outstanding! :)))))
I see now that the serie has been nominated to an Award for Outstanding ideas in graphic novels!
Outstanding! :)))))
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