Gypsy Collected

    (Heavy Metal, 2007)
™ and © Heavy Metal

It is the early in the 21st Century. The ozone layer has been so damaged that air travel had been prohibited. Instead, a massive network of highways called C3C has been constructed that circles the globe. All commerce, legal and otherwise, is dependent on this roadway system. Tsagoi, called Gypsy because of his Romanian heritage, is an independent trucker who is part smuggler, part cowboy seeking his fortune hauling whatever will pay in what has become a lawless Wild West world.

Gypsy, who consistently refers to himself in the third person, is a bombastic, reckless over-the-top character given to wild exclamations that may make sense in his world, but seem intentionally humorous: “By Saint Joseph Kalderasch’s mumps!” “By the three lice in my first hat!” And his responses to potentially dangerous situations prove he is not a man to compromise. Example: when his sister asks, “Wasn’t that the cops?” He replies, “So what? I piss on their mothers!”

Originally published in French by Dargaud Comics then translated and serialized in Heavy Metal, this volume is a collection of three stories. It is a handsome slick paper digest-sized book that compliments the colorful impressive art by Enrico Marini.

— George Haberberger
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