The Beauty Volume 1

by Jeremy Haun, Jason A. Hurley, Jeremy Haun (Artist)

Overview

Modern society is obsessed with outward beauty. What if there was a way to guarantee you could become more and more beautiful every day? What if it was a sexually transmitted disease? In the world of The Beauty, physical perfection is only one sexual encounter away. The vast majority of the population has taken advantage of it, but Detectives Vaughn and Foster will soon discover it comes at a terrible cost. Now, they'll have to find their way past corrupt poiticians, vengeful federal agents, and a terrifying mercenary out to collect the price on their heads. Collects the first six issues of the critically acclaimed, Pilot Season winning series by writer/artist JEREMY HAUN (Constantine, Batwoman) and co-writer JASON A. HURLEY.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781632155504
Publisher:	Image Comics
Publication date:	03/22/2016
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

Haun is known for his work on such creator-owned properties as Red Mother (BOOM! Studios), 40 Seconds (ComiXology), THE REALM and THE BEAUTY (Image Comics). He’s recently published HAUNTHOLOGY via Kickstarter, which was then brought to a wider audience in 2023 by Image Comics. Other projects Haun has worked on include Batwoman, Constantine, Wolf Moon—and many others—for nearly every publisher in the industry.

Haun resides in a crumbling mansion in Joplin, Missouri with his wife, two superheroes-in-training, and large orange cat.

Haun is known for his work on such creator-owned properties as Red Mother (BOOM! Studios), 40 Seconds (ComiXology), THE REALM and THE BEAUTY (Image Comics). He’s recently published HAUNTHOLOGY via Kickstarter, which was then brought to a wider audience in 2023 by Image Comics. Other projects Haun has worked on include Batwoman, Constantine, Wolf Moon—and many others—for nearly every publisher in the industry.

Haun resides in a crumbling mansion in Joplin, Missouri with his wife, two superheroes-in-training, and large orange cat.

Editorial Reviews

05/23/2016
In the opening pages of this graphic novel, a gorgeous woman sits on a subway, starts coughing, and explodes. It's a stunning introduction to an STD that turns average-looking joes and josephines into supermodel knockouts, though not without consequences. But while artist and writer Haun (Batwoman), and cowriter Hurley flirt with the possibility that their series will take a satirical and incisive look at the value and cost of physical attraction, they eschew those concepts for a boring, by-the-numbers police thriller. As afflicted beauties start popping all over the place, in comes a cast so stock it feels preassembled from a box. There are two authority-flouting cops, a shady corporation, a corrupt politician, an assassin, and a group of anti-Beauty activists. Haun's clear but tedious art, which cycles between close-ups and staid shots of people standing around talking, only emphasizes the series' problems. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

MULTIVERSITYCOMICS.COM — “...a high concept that is, frankly, genius...”

COMIC BOOK RESOURCES — “...one of the strongest introductions to a series in a long time...”

ALL-COMIC.COM — “This is absolutely a book to check out.

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