July 8, 2004 Meeting

The Filth
by Grant Morrison, Chris Weston, & Gary Erskine

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Your name is Greg Feely.  You live alone with your pet cat Tony and consume a lot of unusual pornography.  You have your own tastes.  You used to have a good job, but you fell in with a bad crowd you met through the internet.  People didn't understand, and now you're alone with Tony all day, nursing his ailing kidneys and hoping he survives the rest of the year.

Or.  Your name is Ned Slade, Constable 999.  You're a Special Negotiator for The Hand, an enclave of top-secret, high-tech "garbagemen" who handle the social, political, and intellectual refuse of the 21st Century.  You've been hiding inside the parapersona of "Greg Feely" waiting for a call back to action.  Now that the call has come, it's your mission to stop the diabolical Spartacus Hughes from ruining life on Earth.  And Tony has a thyroid condition, not a kidney problem.

Third possibility.  You're a member of the Heroes and Dragons Comic Book Club, a group that meets on the first Thursday of every month to discuss a new graphic novel.  This month you're reading The Filth by Grant Morrison and Chris Weston.  You're a little confused by the dichotomy between Greg Feely and Ned Slade, but you're looking forward to discussing it at the next meeting, on Thursday, July 8.

Whichever reality you embrace, The Filth is sure to be the strangest, most engaging experience of your year-to-date.  Even if you've read it before.

Writer Grant Morrison describes The Filth as "a healing inoculation of grime" — 13 one-issue vaccinations against the worst ideas and concepts of the 21st Century, designed to strengthen your ideological immune system and prepare you for the dangerous, dirty world in which we live.

Not since Mulholland Dr has a single story sparked so much heated debate at the Dragon — and we'd like you to join us in the H&D Game Room at 7:30pm on Thursday, July 8 for our discussion of The Filth.

If you've never attended Comic Club before, this is a great time to learn what we're all about — and find out why the HDCC is "Columbia's Best Kept Secret."

RESOURCES

• Watch the original Flash-animated trailer for The Filth from the DC Comics web site

• Read behind-the-scenes material and see Chris Weston's design sketches at Crack!Comicks.com

• Read Matt Brady's interview with Morrison from Newsarama.com

The Filth is available at Heroes and Dragons now, with a retail price of $19.95.  (Comic Club members pay only $15.96 when they show their membership cards at the counter.)

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