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Badlands
Conrad "Connie" Bremen is an ex-con carrying the stench of a sordid, secret past. Connie just wants to get on with his life, but he's attracting the attention of all the wrong people: the Mob, the CIA, the FBI -- and the nymphomaniac daughter of a Texas millionaire. Everyone has plans for Connie, whether he likes it or not. And some of those plans include the murder of a president. True assassins are made, not born. For Connie Bremen the road to Dallas begins and ends here, in the Badlands.
- GenresComicsGraphic Novels
117 pages, Paperback
First published May 11, 1993
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Steven Grant
764听books24听followersSteven Grant is an American comic book writer best known for his 1985鈥�1986 Marvel Comics mini-series The Punisher with artist Mike Zeck and for his creator-owned character Whisper.
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February 1, 2015
A fictional account of events for some of the imagined fringe players of the JFK assassination, leading up to and following from November 1963.
Maybe I take such things too seriously, but let us face that this still remains an event where no satisfactory conclusion has been brought to the shameful assassination. I hope most people accept there was more than one shooter, and as such so many unacceptable questions unresolved. But let us accept that such things still allow for fictional imaginations to revolve around the events.
I found no depth to characters, the idea that such weasels would have any role in this co-ordinated assassination sustaining too much disbelief, the repeated pointless nudity of teenage nymphomaniacs repugnant, and nothing to enjoy, even if one accepts the bad taste and the implausibility.
Maybe I take such things too seriously, but let us face that this still remains an event where no satisfactory conclusion has been brought to the shameful assassination. I hope most people accept there was more than one shooter, and as such so many unacceptable questions unresolved. But let us accept that such things still allow for fictional imaginations to revolve around the events.
I found no depth to characters, the idea that such weasels would have any role in this co-ordinated assassination sustaining too much disbelief, the repeated pointless nudity of teenage nymphomaniacs repugnant, and nothing to enjoy, even if one accepts the bad taste and the implausibility.
February 28, 2009
I like the surprise ending..as Jonathan Vankin points out, there is
very little fiction written about the JFK assassination. This graphic novel tells a plausible version (it is around the edges of the main story).
Like Don Delillo's 'Libra' and James Ellroy's 'American Tabloid,' it
raises questions about what kind of a country we really are. (I started
reading Ellroy's later novel about the JFK assassination a few years
ago and put it down because it was so violent and sexually yucky..
not that I am against kinkiness...being a comic, 'Badlands' is slightly
kinky...but Ellroy's second novel on the JFK murder was sexually ugly)
August 16, 2007
This is one of my all-time favorite comics. Written by Steven Grant and drawn by Vince Giarrano, Badlands imagines a possible scenario leading up to the assassination of President Kennedy. In the grand tradition of crime fiction, it features a main character who can't seem to make a good decision, along with corrupt oil men, a nymphomaniac daughter, and a scary, scary hired killer. The really scary part, of course, is just how plausible it all seems.
March 29, 2018
Bit of a sucker for anything relating to JFK Assassination but found this disappointing. Illustrations were only ordinary and the story was just a bit too far fetched (yeah, I know, a graphic novel). At least it's a primer for 'Reclaiming History' - Vincent Bugliosi's 1600 page door stopper - which arrived the other day.
October 13, 2012
This graphic novel has a historic lens, exploring conspiracy theories around the assassination of John F. Kennedy. A must-read for any JFK history lovers.
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