Prison Pit Book 6

Prison Pit #6

by Johnny Ryan

In the concluding volume of this series, there’s a final fight that pits our antihero and avatar of destruction against the system that shaped him but couldn’t break him. This gory space Odyssey ends the only way it can, with a final fight that pits our antihero and avatar of destruction against the system that shaped him but couldn’t break him. Johnny Ryan’s filthy, satirical graphic novel series, which has been adapted into animation, was a notable mention in The Best American Comics 2011 , has been turned into action figures and skate decks and adapted into multiple languages around the world, finally concludes! This extra-length final volume is four years in the making and delivers on every front! Black & white illustrations throughout.

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

156 pages, Paperback

First published May 22, 2018

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

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

When all Prison Pit volumes are collected into one massive HC, it will be hailed as the Moby Dick of nihilistic, body fluid-centric, extreme space massacre comix.

[Bogdan · Rating 2 out of 5]

The cover is very suggestive for it`s content, a continuous struggle for life.

Overall I wasn`t so impressed with this one...

[fonz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ryan culmina con contundencia este desquiciado tebeo de superengendros que a mí me ha recordado mucho a la intensa experiencia infantil de leer por primera vez aquellos tomitos Vértice de Marvel pero como vistos a través de los ojos de un niño psicótico. La primera lectura de este último volumen se ve perjudicada por todo lo que ha tardado en salir, puede saber a poco, es recomendable releer de nuevo la serie del tirón.

[Ruz El · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh look, Johnny Ryan has put out the greatest book ever, again!

[Brian Dickerson · Rating 3 out of 5]

The ending of a series that I’d forgotten had not ended, well... ended in an unexpected way for me.

I think books like this cross the line of decency to prompt the reader to exercise their minds in order to justify the existence of such. Nobody wants to admit it does not have a higher meaning. It has to be something that teaches us ethical lessons through satire. It cannot be what it appears to be. I’m certain it must mean a multitude of different things across the readership. And, my guess is that is what Johnny hopes will take place.

UHF UHF FREEDOM UHF...

[Tom · Rating 3 out of 5]

In what feels more like a nod to Geoff Darrow's Shaolin Cowboy than an attempt to equal or outdo the other books in the Prison Pit series, volume 6 ends the cycle of abuse in outer space. Although two moments of charm stand out (our hero, Fuck Face, can tighten his sphincter to a degree that allows him to tear off the groin of his anal-assaulter; his crystalline penis also provides the book with its own money shot), body count ranks higher than disgusting action, which—for this Ryan fan—is a diminution of imagination contributing to my disappointment with the book overall.

[Nick LeBlanc · Rating 5 out of 5]

And it ends the only way it ever could have. The creature work and extensive battle scenes in this one are the best in the whole series. There’s one real big YIKES line that I don’t think hits the same in 2025. But this one has it all—violence, transgressive and confrontational ideas, complete deconstruction of the comic form, all with a great ending to boot, so for that it gets top marks.

Read as a single issue.

[Sean Harding · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well it's over.
All the messed up gore and violence and whatever else you want to call it.
Totally senseless, and with a dark ending.
Not my cup of tea at all, although I did persist to the bitter end.
Each part was really fairly quick to read, so that did make it easier.

[Joyce · Rating 5 out of 5]

given the contents of the preceding 5 issues its difficult in advance to guess what kind of orgy of violence would be managed for the finale, well folx, "orgy" is the right word for it. completely reprehensible, disgusting, without redeeming feature. great stuff

[Chad Brock · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.75

[Kim]

better than the volume 5