Prison Pit GN (2009-2018 Fantagraphics) comic books

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Story and art by Johnny Ryan. In the tradition of Kentaro Miura's "Berserk" Manga comes this original graphic novel from the pen of Johnny Ryan. Combining his love for WWE wrestling and Miura's Berserk, Prison Pit is a brutal showcase of violence, survival and revenge. The Prison Pit is a barren negative-zone populated by intergalactic, violent monster criminals who wage wars over slorges - giant slugs that excrete a steroid-like drug called "fecid" that all the monster men are addicted to. Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 120 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $12.99.

Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. Story and art by Johnny Ryan. In the tradition of Kentaro Miura's "Berserk" Manga comes this original graphic novel from the pen of Johnny Ryan. Combining his love for WWE wrestling and Miura's Berserk, Prison Pit is a brutal showcase of violence, survival and revenge. The Prison Pit is a barren negative-zone populated by intergalactic, violent monster criminals who wage wars over slorges - giant slugs that excrete a steroid-like drug called "fecid" that all the monster men are addicted to. Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 120 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $12.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Story and art by Johnny Ryan. The balls-to-the-wall series returns this summer with more action and mayhem like only Johnny Ryan can deliver-again starring CF, the shirtless outer space barbarian antihero who remains damned to the Prison Pit (a vast wasteland beneath the crust of a barren planet, populated by the worst of the worst, where violence is the only law and evil creatures roam free). In Prison Pit: Book Two, the second graphic novel in a trilogy, CF tries to get revenge against the evil behemoth that took his arm, and then winds up playing an unwilling participant in an elaborate escape attempt from the Pit. Prison Pit blends Ryan's fascination with WWE wrestling, grindhouse cinema, first-person action video games, Gary Panter's "Jimbo" comics, and Kentaro Miura's "Berserk" Manga into a brutal and often hilarious showcase of violence like no other comic book ever created. Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 120 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $12.99.

Volume 2 - 2nd and later printings. Story and art by Johnny Ryan. The balls-to-the-wall series returns this summer with more action and mayhem like only Johnny Ryan can deliver-again starring CF, the shirtless outer space barbarian antihero who remains damned to the Prison Pit (a vast wasteland beneath the crust of a barren planet, populated by the worst of the worst, where violence is the only law and evil creatures roam free). In Prison Pit: Book Two, the second graphic novel in a trilogy, CF tries to get revenge against the evil behemoth that took his arm, and then winds up playing an unwilling participant in an elaborate escape attempt from the Pit. Prison Pit blends Ryan's fascination with WWE wrestling, grindhouse cinema, first-person action video games, Gary Panter's "Jimbo" comics, and Kentaro Miura's "Berserk" Manga into a brutal and often hilarious showcase of violence like no other comic book ever created. Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 120 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $12.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Story and art by Johnny Ryan. Prison Pit blends Angry Youth Comix creator Johnny Ryan's fascination with WWE wrestling, grindhouse cinema, Gary Panter's "Jimbo" comics, and Kentaro Miura's "Berserk" Manga into a brutal and often hilarious showcase of violence like no other comic book ever created. Prison Pit Book 3 continues the unprintablynamed lead character's blood-soaked travails through the pit where life is short and mercy is in even shorter supply. Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 120 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $12.99.

Volume 3 - 2nd and later printings. Story and art by Johnny Ryan. Prison Pit blends Angry Youth Comix creator Johnny Ryan's fascination with WWE wrestling, grindhouse cinema, Gary Panter's "Jimbo" comics, and Kentaro Miura's "Berserk" Manga into a brutal and often hilarious showcase of violence like no other comic book ever created. Prison Pit Book 3 continues the unprintablynamed lead character's blood-soaked travails through the pit where life is short and mercy is in even shorter supply. Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 120 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $12.99.

Volume 4 - 1st printing. Story and art by Johnny Ryan. Johnny (Angry Youth Comix) Ryan's hugely popular sci-fi-prison-planet-gore-fest-a-thon continues on its bloody trail of mayhem as our hero plots his escape using any means necessary. With its first two installments already in second printings, Prison Pit is building a solid fan base and stands as an utterly unique comic book that has to be seen to be believed. Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 120 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $12.99.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. Story and art by Johnny Ryan. THE HOLOCAUST BROTHERS TAKE THEIR BOW IN JOHNNY RYAN'S GORY MONSTERPIECE - A huge success in the alternative-comics field, with the first two volumes already in second printings, Prison Pit is Johnny (Angry Youth Comix) Ryan's ongoing taboo-busting sci-fi-prison-planet-body-mutation-splatterfest epic extravaganza, beloved by everyone from the legendary Gary Panter ("GLOREGEFULL!") to Booklist ("Not to be missed"). In the latest installment, our hero Cannibal Fuckface still isn't dead, so the Prison Boss plays what may be his last card: The Holocaust Brothers. But before CF battles the Ho-Bros he's got to destroy his arch-enemy, the seemingly indestructible Slitt, who happens to be the only one who knows how to get the hell out of the Prison Pit. The author promises: "Every single testicle in the world will explode with rage when Prison Pit 5 is unleashed." Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 120 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $12.99.

Volume 6 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Johnny Ryan.

This gory space Odyssey ends the only way it can, with a final fight that pits our antihero against the system that shaped him but couldn't break him. Johnny Ryan's filthy, satirical graphic novel series, which has been adapted into animation, turned into action figures and skate decks and translated into multiple languages around the world, finally concludes! This extra-length final volume is four years in the making and delivers on every front!

Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 156 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $14.99.