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Mojambo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-30-07 02:42 AM
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Gutsville
Anybody else going to get this?

http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/reviews/118035463592147.htm

"The story, as introduced by the inside cover, is that 150 years ago a group of prisoners headed from England to the penal colony of Australia, were swallowed by a leviathan. Improbably, they survive and manage to build a small society, charmingly named Gutsville."

"The lives of the survivors are of constant struggle as they contend with the unique ecology that has developed in the belly of the gigantic beast. In response to this, the society that has formed over the past century is a totalitarian one, tightly controlled, in which the Puritan-like religion is used as a hammer to justify executing anyone that steps out of line. These folk look to Jonah, swallowed by the whale before them, as their biblical guide, believing that if they purify themselves, they will be released from their gastrological prison."

"What makes all of this so interesting is that the team behind Gutsville has created microcosms of both ecology and society. The nature that surrounds them and their lives within the beast are very different than our own. The society, having been isolated for the last 150 years, without the events or worldly influences dry societies have experienced, is a creepy reflection of mid-18th century English society."



It sounds really twisted and awesome. I can't wait to get my hands on it.
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