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... Too well-executed to be the work of an idiot-savant type, but it's also so relentlessly sleazy and stupid ... Tim Hodler, Comics Comics ... Marra is trying to single-handedly restore some 'order' to comics. Frank Santoro, Comics Comics All the guy characters look like action figures you would have killed to have owned when you were little, and all the girl characters/strippers look like drawings of sexy ladies you would have made to impress your friends and convince your enemies that you're not gay. Nick Gazin, Vice One of the best comic series around-strippers, vice cops, serial killers, guidos, all mix it up in the pre-giuliani era New York. Like Douglas Sirk directing an Abel Ferrara script ... Sammy Harkham, Kramers Ergot and Crickets ... some hair-metal or porno fantasy world where men are either leather and denim street toughs ... and ... women routinely walk around in lingerie and heels. Sean T. Collins, Attentiondeficitdisorderly Too Flat ... Marra's comics are the kind of things Mark Millar aspires to be. Timothy Callahan, Comic Book Resources ... New Wave Hookers meets Death Wish III as seen through the eyes of a 14 year-old, heavy metal kid. Dean Rispler, Drug Front Records ... This is how all contemporary fiction should read. Tucker Stone, The Factual Opinion The saga of the urban underground continues with intense action and heavy emotional drama. Will Chastity survive her devastating encounter with the masked slasher? Will Johnny find a way to lure the killer out of the shadows of the night, into the streetlights and deliver his desparate revenge? Answers to these questions and more can be found in NIGHT BUSINESS, ISSUE 2. Pick up your copy today!!

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Benjamin Marra is the notorious, controversial and influential comic creator of the comic books NIGHT BUSINESS, GANGSTA RAP POSSE, THE INCREDIBLY FANTASTIC ADVENTURES OF MAUREEN DOWD (A WORK OF SATIRE AND FICTION), LINCOLN WASHINGTON: FREE MAN!, BLADES & LAZERS and TERROR ASSAULTER: O.M.W.O.T. (One Man War On Terror). Marra has drawn comparisons to mainstream masters like Paul Gulacy and Jim Steranko, as well as underground comix legends like R. Crumb and Spain Rodriguez, and even the Beat writers. His art beyond the cutting edge. His work is in the cut itself. His illustration work has been recognized by The Society of Illustrators, The Society of Publication Designers, 3x3 and American Illustration. In 2006 he was named as one of the Art Directors Club Young Guns. Some of the publications and companies he has done illustration for include Playboy, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Marvel Comics, Vice, Radar, Paper, Nylon, Widen+Kennedy and McCann-Erickson.

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