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The Many Deaths of Scott Koblish

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This was a fun one to read. Scott Koblish has illustrated many Marvel comic, depicting many ways to die. So in this book, he imagines the many ways he could die. Of course, it is all by illustrations. Each one with a different way for him to die. A little dark, yes, but hilarious at the same time.

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A collection of dark cartoons just as the title says depicting the many ways Scott dies. I esp liked the deadly cat. Enjoy

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Thanks NetGalley for the ARC. This is a quick glance of a book. The cartoons were interesting at first but quickly felt a bit repetitive for my taste. This would have been better if it was even slimmer. Not a bad way to spend fifteen minutes and worthy of a library rental - not necessarily the type of book you need/want to buy.

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Koblish accomplishes a lot with relatively simple images and no words. He's got a great sense of timing. And I love that somehimes we get exactly what we expect and sometimes the manner of death is completely out of nowhere. And the cat repeatedly tipping him out of windows and such. Delightful.

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This is exactly what the title says. Koblish has dreamed up many inventive to off himself. The author is a gifted visual storyteller as he wordlessly sets up his little premises for his demise. A quick, darkly funny read.

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Scott Koblish is an artist with Marvel comics who has worked on titles like Deadpool, Spider-Man, and Thor. In 'The Many Deaths of Scott Koblish' he draws a collection of ways he might die.

From the realistic (falling down a mountain) to the fantastic (being abducted by aliens), there are pages of ways that the author could meet his demise. They are all told in pictures only with no dialogue. There is one recurring gag that I found especially funny.

They are morbidly dark, but they appealed to my sense of humor. The art is pretty good, and the situations are pretty imaginative. This book reminded me a bit of the parts of Groundhog Day where a character attempts many times to kill themselves. More recently this was done in the movie Doctor Strange. These sequences, and the comics in this book can remind us that we are all mortal, but that's no reason not to get a laugh in about it.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Chronicle Books and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

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The book is exactly as the title sounds...it's a comic book that depicts THE MANY DEATHS OF SCOTT KOBLISH, from an avalanche happening where he's looking out at a scenic overlook and dumping him down the hill, to the Grim Reaper handing him a fork to get burning toast stuck in a toaster to Scott Koblish dying of waiting for someone to stop at his booth at a comic convention to running from a T-Rex, only to get hit by a bus.

The illustrations are well done. I'm not sure what I was expecting that I didn't get it, but overall, it was not...super exciting.

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Scott Koblish dies a lot. Sometimes it takes him one page to die, sometimes two, but he always ends. This is a delightful wordless graphic novel collecting exactly what its title implies: the many deaths of Scott Koblish. My favorites are the meta-panels, in which his own drawings become the bringers of his doom - oh, and the snowglobe he recklessly shakes, not realizing that it will cause the parallel universe where he lives to collapse under a violent earthquake.

Pretty fun.

I received access to this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review

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In this fairly enjoyable comic about ways to die, Scott Koblish imagines a ton of different ways to go. There are some moments in this book that made me think, Hey, I've thought about that too!

It's pretty obvious Scott suffers from acute imagination of his cat running him over and forces him to descend to his death. It's like how everyone thinks about what would happen if their phones fall off the bridge. It's hilarious as it is relate-able.

It was also a very quick read. I read it in between works in two sittings. And the only reason I didn't finish it in one sitting was because I had to get back to work. A good way to spend your coffee break.

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This was an incredibly dark and funny book as creator Scott Koblish imagines his own death in different over the top ways. Koblish's illustrations are terrific as always and a truly unsung hero of the comics world (everyone should look at the hundreds of characters he squeezed on to the cover of the Deadpool wedding issue). While I know this type of humor may not be for everyone this will delight anyone who has a taste for dark humor.

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The Many Deaths of Scott Koblish = 90 pages of the author envisioning his own death.

This whimsical collection of 4-panel comics will sate everyone’s need for schadenfreude. Koblish’s work is zany and can be so delightfully cruel. Sans dialogue, but with fun ironic titles, these miniature stories have a surprising depth of understanding of our many anxieties, fears, and angst. They are drawn in black and white, but many times use color to emphasize the agent of death.

LOOK OUT SCOTT! You might choke yourself on “The Most Important Meal of the Day” or those pigeons may literally bite the hand that feeds them…

Thank you to NetGalley, Chronicle Books, and Mr. Koblish for the advanced copy for review.

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This was genius!

The best artists can tell stories without words.

And this artist is excellent at telling such a diverse range of stories without a single dialogue bubble.

Well, as diverse as you can be when every comic has the same result.

But take a look at these - they are hilarious. I don’t know if reading them in one sitting makes them more or less funny, but I read it, then I read it with my girlfriend and they were just as funny the second time through.

<i>Thanks to NetGalley and Chronicle Books for a copy in return for an honest review.</i>

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