Word: liquidates
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...spiritual cleansing, bathing elders and washing Buddha statues. But the oppressive heat of the dry season has prompted a revision to tradition. Now April 14-16 will see the world's biggest water fight as Southeast Asians from Phnom Penh to Phuket soak each other in three days of liquid lunacy, accompanied by dancing, feasting and singing. In Rangoon, stages erected along the streets are used to spray passersby. In Thailand, residents of Chiang Mai in the north are known as particularly enthusiastic celebrants, while Khon Kean in the northeast parades flower-bedecked floats through town to the beat...
...course, that was more than seven years ago, before the night he got wildly drunk and flipped his Dodge Ram truck, bringing his seemingly sweet life to a crashing halt. Today Wendland, 48, lies in Lodi Memorial Hospital, kept alive only by a tube that delivers liquid nourishment to his broken body. Severely brain damaged and with his left side paralyzed, he cannot walk, talk, eat or communicate meaningful thoughts, if indeed he still has any. And though he is occasionally able to perform a simple, repeated command like a zombie--tossing a ball or placing a color-coded...
Pope has no pity for slow learners. By the time you read the first page, the main character, known as "S," has already stolen the volatile titular liquid from a criminal gang and begun to boil some of it up so he can drip it into his ear for its psychotropic properties. Thereafter it becomes a double cat-and-mouse tale as the gang hunts down "S" while "S" gets hired by an art collector to find a missing artist who can cast the liquid into a sculpture. Meanwhile, nobody really knows where this liquid comes from or what...
...Heavy Liquid" may not be a deep read, but it has a lot of entertainment value. Paul Pope has a unique imagination and the talent to realize it. The story feels familiar while the details - a killer with the mask of the horse in Picasso's "Guernica," the hunt for an artist rather than a killer, and absurd stick-figure robots -feel fresh. This combination of new and old basically defines a superior work of genre fiction...
...Heavy Liquid" can be found be found in almost any comic book store. Pope's previous work: "THB" and "The One-Trick Ripoff" may be harder to find, but are also much harder to read...