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Chargement... The Chillpar Jason Starr, Mick Bertilorenzi (Illustrateur)
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 Gr 9 Up-The scene is rural Ireland in 1967. Two young lovers are becoming intimate when Arlana inadvertently does something to her boyfriend, Martin Cleary. She nearly kills him. When she runs to her father for help, he savagely beats her and ominously says, "Your time has come!" Fast forward to present-day New York City. Young men keep meeting the woman of their dreams, only to be savagely murdered when they start to get lucky. An older Martin Cleary figures out that Arlana and her father have traveled to the New World to spread their Druidic nightmare overseas. How can an old man stop such powerful magic? This graphic novel, set in a noir-type world, lacks a coherent story and solid plot. Arlana, the one female character, is depicted as both victim and seductress in equal measure. Readers will feel little sympathy for her situation because it's never really clear why she's following her father's evil wishes. The overall story is scrapped for gratuitous sex, violence, and seemingly every character swearing for no reason other than shock value. The spooky twist at the end will leave most readers underwhelmed. Prix et récompenses
It's summertime in New York, but a 'chill' has settled over the city-- a serial killer is on the loose, and the ritualized murders are becoming increasingly sadistic. The NYPD and the FBI have a suspect: a gorgeous young woman named Arlana. The only problem is that every witness provides a different description of her. None of this makes any sense to anyone except Martin Cleary, a beaten-down Irish cop from Boston with a whopper of a secret in his past-- a past that may go back a century or two--" -- p. [4] of cover. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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"The Chill" starts in Ireland where an old curse is awaken when a young woman has sex for the first time. A few decades later, people start dying in New York - and it looks ritualistic and weird. If one pays attention, they will realize that either the illustrator has messed up much earlier in New York or something else is indeed weird (nope, it is not the illustrator). The old curse had crossed the ocean and the woman and her father are now killing in the big city. And the only man who knows what is going on is the one who survived back in Ireland - and who seems to have enough problems to become a suspect when he finally shows up.
The whole novel is steeped into Irish/Celtic legends, pulling pieces of them and rewriting them to fit the story and the narrative. Magic and immortality clash together into a time when noone believes in either; there is even an Irish priest who everyone respects (and who turns out to be anything but respectable). And somewhere under the gore and death, there is a love story. Because while the curse and the story demand sacrifices, love seems to be the only thing that can beat it all. Or at least to change it enough so the victims of it can live with it.
The twist at the end completes a circle - even if it seems like a tale of redemption for most of the novel for some of the characters, it is anything but. And the reversal of roles adds to that.
The novel is explicit - both in language and in its images and sex and gore are shown as matter of fact. Which is why Vertigo needed the new imprint after all. And the art by Bertilorenzi fits the story perfectly, almost too perfectly in places - as with all good GNs, the art carries the stories even further.
If you are looking for a deep tale about Celtic cults and what's not, look elsewhere - this is not it. The sex and the curse it unleashes (or the special power if you wish) are the point of the novel. And it executes them very well.
"The Chill" ended up winning Starr a second Anthony awards - after he won one in 2005 for Best paperback original, this one gave him the one for Best GN - in the first and only year in which the Anthony awards acknowledged the existence of the medium and used one of its wildcard spots to give it an award. (