Jason returns with more tales of love and loss among the dog- and cat-headed.
Another all-original collection of full-color graphic novellas in the format of
Low Moon, Athos in America
takes its title from the lead story, a prequel of sorts to the graphic novel
The Last Musketeer
, in which the seemingly ageless swashbuckler turns up in a bar in 1920 New York and relates the tale of how he went to Hollywood to play himself in a film version of
The Three Musketeers
. Another tie-in with a previous Jason story occurs in “The Smiling Horse,” in which the characters from the story “&” in
Low Moon
attempt to kidnap a woman. Also in this volume: “The Brain That Wouldn’t Virginia Woolf,” a mash-up of
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
and
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
, told in reverse chronological order; the Bukowski pastiche “A Cat From Heaven” in which Jason works on his comic, has a reading in a comic book store, gets drunk and makes a fool of himself; the dialogue-free (all the text occurs in thought balloons) “Tom Waits on the Moon,” in which we follow four people (one of them a scientist working on a teleportation machine) until something goes wrong; and “So Long Mary Ann,” a prison-escape love-triangle story.