It begins in 1966 with a profoundly shocking sequence, emblematic of the novel's purpose, in which a starving Bengali peasant slaughters his wife and children before killing himself by drinking corrosive insecticide.
It's a pretty shocking sequence, but then you look at February: five acid attacks, all within a small radius around east London and Essex a zone which appears to be the epicenter of acid attacks in Britain.
It's a pretty shocking sequence, but then you look at February: five acid attacks, all within a small radius around east London and Essex – a zone which appears to be the epicentre of acid attacks in Britain.
In one shocking sequence, a skate dangles from a chain as its wings, the only edible parts, are excised – a scene not far from the notorious trade in definned sharks.
The pursuit culminates in a gruesome and gratuitously shocking sequence from which the game never recovers, with the two forced through uninspiring locations such as factories, warehouses and train yards that could be in any city.
In 2004 Publishers Weekly said in a review of the first collected edition: "Forceful scripting that gives the book a strong grounding in reality, crisp B-and-W artwork, a shocking final sequence and brisk gory proceedings elevate this book from the trash heap of pedestrian horror comics".
There's a shocking opening sequence with Denzel Washington cavorting in a hotel bed with a naked woman (Nadine Velazquez of My Name Is Earl), chugging booze and fighting on the phone with his ex-wife; then leaning in to the camera to snort up a fat rail of cocaine, his face grotesquely distorted in close-up.
But, pieced together by the Guardian, the truly shocking sequence of events that culminated in an innocent man dying in the street became a national outrage.
In one of the book's more effectively shocking sequences, he talks a sober alcoholic right off the wagon and into the driver's seat of a car, inducing the man to drive drunk down the wrong side of a freeway.
