Wrestler HC (C: 0-1-2)

(W/A/CA) John Kenn Mortensen. John Kenn Mortensen's mordant* black-and-white inked images have taken you to The Nightmare Factory* scared you with The Bestiary* and given you Night Terrors - now in the internationally bestselling artist's debut graphic novel* you're going to fight like hell! Freestyle wrestler The Sledgehammer has never met defeat* not at the hands of Painkiller* Handsome Jens* Fezzik the Giant or the Angel of Death. But over the course of 80 pages* Danish illustrator John Kenn Mortensen's surreal black and white graphic novel will take Sledgehammer to the limits of reality* to show that he's motivated by far more than hubris-it's also love. Mortensen's first English-language graphic novel delivers on the promise that his delightfully macabre books of illustration had previously made to readers around the world. With his spidery black-ink style* reminiscent of Edward Gorey's gothic line* we're taken to a world in which heavy metal mixes with the WWE by way of The Seventh Seal and Faust.