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NEIL GAIMAN'S TEKNOPHAGE #1 COMIC BOOK
Published by TEKNO COMIX in 1995. RARE FIRST ISSUE COLLECTORS ITEM.
GAIMAN's STEAMPUNK saga of the Reptilian Tyrant, THE TEKNOPHAGE!
The story of Rob Nichols and his attempt to strike a deal with or kill the Teknophage in order to attain power/wealth and/or rescue a missing Earthwoman.
The Teknophage is a 65 million year old reptile. Over the years he became the top predator on his world, and eventually discovered wormholes which he used to travel to other worlds. He eventually learned to control the world around him with his mind. These powers include controlling others, reading people's minds, and projecting a mind blast. He was able to find new wormholes, and devised the 'teknology' to stabilize them in his machine, the Wheel Of Worlds, located at the top of the Phage building.
The Phage Building is Mr. Phage's home. It, and everything in it, runs on the teknology of industrialized alchemy, i.e. steam power of the Victorious age. Innumerable stories high, it rolls around the planet of Kahlighoul gathering people to work in it who eventually give up their souls to its furnaces. The building was made to a hierarchical scheme. The bottom levels house the vatmen and other workers, kept in line by alchemical-steambots, the Vulgar Bootmen. The middle level houses the middlemen. The top levels sport the aristocrats while the topmost level is home to Mr. Phage himself
Rob Nichols, a real-estate salesman, is transported to Kalighoul, the home of Mr. Henry Phage. By good luck, he manages to work his way up through the ranks of the workers to threaten Phage, a reptilian monster who rules through fear, as seen in issues of Mr. Hero. His subjects are so used to living in terror that when, as often happens, he decides to eat them, they don’t put up much of a struggle.
LONG OUT OF PRINT AND IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND.
COLLECTOR'S ITEM FEATURING A STEAM PUNK FANTASY SERIES CREATED BY NEIL GAIMAN FOR TEKNO COMIX, FOLLOWING HIS ACCLAIMED GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES SANDMAN.
This is the hard to find first printings of the original TEKNOPHAGE Comic Book with lavish full color illustrations.
This is the RARE original 1995 published version of Gaiman's TEKNOPHAGE, and was never sold in any mass market retail outlets. It was only available to purchase through comic book specialty shops.
Brand new condition and is printed on high quality glossy paper to enhance the lavish artwork.
Neil Gaiman wrote the award-winning graphic novel series The Sandman, and with Terry Pratchett, the award-winning novel Good Omens. His first book for children, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, illustrated by Dave McKean, hasn't yet won any awards, but was one of Newsweek's Best Children's Books of 1997. Angels & Visitations, a small press story collection, was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and won the International Horror Critics Guild Award for Best Collection, despite not having any horror in it. Well, hardly any.Born in England, he now makes his home in America, in a big dark house of uncertain location where he grows exotic pumpkins and accumulates computers and cats. He is currently at work turning his first novel Neverwhere into a film for Jim Henson films.
Asked why he likes comics more than other forms of storytelling Gaiman said “One of the joys of comics has always been the knowledge that it was, in many ways, untouched ground. It was virgin territory. When I was working on Sandman, I felt a lot of the time that I was actually picking up a machete and heading out into the jungle. I got to write in places and do things that nobody had ever done before. When I’m writing novels I’m painfully aware that I’m working in a medium that people have been writing absolutely jaw-droppingly brilliant things for, you know, three-four thousand years now. You know, you can go back. We have things like The Golden Ass. And you go, well, I don’t know that I’m as good as that and that’s two and a half thousand years old. But with comics I felt like — I can do stuff nobody has ever done. I can do stuff nobody has ever thought of. And I could and it was enormously fun.”