It's been a spell, but TA-DA! the final WARHEADS appears.From comics’ best self-promoting narcissist: BRANDON GRAHAM.A wizard heist that our heroes planned in the MULTIPLE WARHEADS chapters appearing in ISLAND magazine finally comes to fruition.
Brandon Graham (born 1976) is an American comic book creator.
Born in Oregon, Graham grew up in Seattle, Washington, where he was a graffiti artist. He wrote and illustrated comic books for Antarctic Press and Radio Comix, but got his start drawing pornographic comics like Pillow Fight and Multiple Warheads (Warheads would go on to become its own comic published by Oni Press in 2007). In 1997, he moved to New York City where he found work with NBM Publishing and became a founding member of comics collective Meathaus. His book Escalator was published by Alternative Comics in January 2005, when he returned to Seattle. His book King City was published by Tokyopop in 2007 and was nominated for an Eisner Award. In May 2009 Graham announced that King City would continue publication at Image Comics and his Oni Press title Multiple Warheads would resume publication after a delay, this time in color. Also at Image he is the writer on Prophet, the return of a 1990s series, with the rotating roster of artists Giannis Milonogiannis, Farel Dalrymple, Simon Roy, and himself.
“Multiple Warheads: Ghost Throne” is supposed to wrap up Brandon Graham’s “Ghostown” arc that he serialized in Island magazine which I didn’t read but, even if I had, I doubt I would’ve been able to make sense of this issue (it has something to do with stealing magic - maybe? - and there’s a bunch of strange aliens wandering around). But, hey, that’s just Brandon Graham. If you’re familiar with his work, you know by now that he marches to the beat of his own weird drummer. Graham’s comics are all about insanely immersive sci-fi worlds, pun-tastic writing, and fluid Mobius-esque art. Even though I don’t know what the hell is going on half the time (okay, most of the time), I can’t get enough of his stuff. “Ghost Throne” is a trip, in every sense of the word.
A full and internally consistent world built on puns is presented and we follow characters we love through some kind of heist story. An amazing two page spread with some kind of battle beast made up of 1000 beings clinging to one another.