Joe the BarbarianJoe is an imaginative young kid of 11 who happens to suffer from type 1 diabetes. Without supervision and insulin, he can easilyslip into a delirious, disassociative state that presages coma and death. One fateful day, his condition causes him to believe he hasentered a vivid fantasy world in which he is the lost savior -- a fantastic land based on the layout and contents of his home. Hisdesperate attempts to make it out of his bedroom and down the mountainous stairs, to find food, switch the lights on and answerthe phone to his mother, transform into an incredible, epic quest adventure through a bizarre landscape of submarine piratedwarves, evil Hell Hounds, Lightning Lords and besieged castles; a landscape which allows him to work out his own and his family's problems. Collects the 8 issue mini-series/ |
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User Review - apokoliptian - LibraryThingIn Joe the Barbarian Grant Morrison dives again in the theme of folded realities but with a pop language more suitable for a bigger audience (different from the last time in The Filth). It shows again ... Read full review
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User Review - ritaer - LibraryThingA boy with diabetes hallucinates/crosses into another dimension when he becomes hypoglycemic. Accompanied by his pet rat he must find a soda, achieve a quest and rescue the other world from Death. Good artwork. Read full review
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