Okay, this book is just creepy as hell. You would think that a villain who looks exactly like Alice Cooper wouldn’t be so menacing, but you’d be wrong.
Even after Wayne’s World and hanging out with Alice Cooper myself at a concert that Joia produced (one of the perks of her job) I was still scared fuckless by Cooper’s Master of Ceremonies who may or may not be Satan.
Okay, sidetracking to the funny story about hanging out with Alice Cooper.
So, we were talking about our backgrounds, and how similar they are, me being a pastor’s kid and he also being a PK.
He told me that I should seriously consider going back to church because it would provide peace and guidance.
Walking away, Joia just started laughing her ass off. When I asked what was so funny, she said, “How fucked up do you have to be for Alice Cooper to think you need Jesus?”
So, that was fun.
Back to The Last Temptation, the black and white artwork is by turns horrifying, sickening and gorgeous and the story really adds a lot to the too-often re-treaded fable of Faust.
Gaiman draws a convincing parallel between the interaction between Cooper’s Showman and the young Steven and the temptation of Christ in the wilderness by Satan himself.
Particularly haunting is the attempt to seduce Steven through Mercy, a troubled, beautiful and perhaps imaginary showgirl.
As we've come to expect from Gaiman, what we’re left with is more than just a morality tale or a horror story. The Last Temptation is a fresh, unsettling take on a familiar story. Buy this book.
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