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Mister Negativity : and other tales of supernatural law by Batton Lash; Tom De Haven is a humor available to read on EtoBox.
What is Mister Negativity : and other tales of supernatural law about?
In 1979, Lash created the comic strip "Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre," about two attorneys specializing in cases dealing with supernatural matters. Unlike Wolfram & Hart, the law firm with a similar clientele on the TV show Angel, Alanna Wolff and her partner, Jeff Byrd, have always been on the good guys' side, and their exploits are comedies. Over time, Wolff and Byrd have migrated from one comics venue to another, and now star in their own comic book, Supernatural Law, from which the stories were collected for this paperback. The stories aren't laugh-out-loud funny, but instead deal in quiet, gentle whimsy. The appealingly cartoony art maintains a light tone even in the more morbid scenes; the firm's secretary looks as if she grew up in Archie's Riverdale. Lash is overly fond of some of comics' and soap opera's kitschier clichEs. His characterizations tend to be one-dimensional; Wolff and Byrd have little personality and function as the straight men to a supporting cast of eccentrics. What's most impressive about this book are the inventive concepts. In the title story, a man with an obsessively negative attitude visually transforms into a "photo-negative" version of hi
Who reads Mister Negativity : and other tales of supernatural law?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Batton Lash; Tom De Haven
- Publisher
- Exhibit A Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780963395481
- Category
- humor
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Graphic Novel, Fantasy
- Rating
- 3.95 / 5 (21 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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