Angel Claws Hardcover – 1 Mar. 2013

Talk about coffee table books - this one is the coffee table. It isn't a book but a work of art and massive to boot, better check the sizes if you want to buy, it's got a massive wow factor. The book itself is high quality, it's sturdy and the paper is like thick card like holding the real work of art in your hands. Not a Jodorowsky book/story in the normal sense. Don't fully know if I understand the meaning but it reads like an idea on how a girl (read virgin) becomes a "woman" (called sexual awakening elsewhere) seen from a man's viewpoint, with an cryptic sometimes difficult to fathom statement (that qualifies it to be called poetic) on the LH side of one page and a full page black & white drawing by Moebius on the page next to it. Every single one of these is a work of art in its own right. Take the book for what it is: a collaboration between two great men, a piece of art to be treasured. It has a limited edition of 800 and thus not cheap but worth every penny and certainly different.

A graphic curiosity. Disturbing, odd and rather distressing in places. But there is a strangely redemptive quality which keeps you turning the pages. Intelligent, with striking, terse artwork. I wouldn't recommend this to those who are sensitive to the subject matter as it could trigger painful emotions. But I like the message which seemed to convey a woman rising above the abuse in her past, and battling through the deep set pain surrounding her sense of value as a sexual being and a female. The end certainly caught me offguard. Intriguing.