Strangers in Paradise Vol 5 TP Immortal Enemies Terry Moore 5th print Abstract

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Strangers in Paradise Volume 5 Immortal Enemies TPB
Published Jan 1998 by Abstract

5th printing. “Immortal Enemies!”
Collects Strangers in Paradise (1996 Image/Homage) #6-12.

Story and art by Terry Moore.

Featuring the conclusion of the ‘Love Me Tender’ story. Katchoo returns to LA to look for David, but encounters the deadly Mrs. Parker instead. Back home, Francine enlists the aid of Det. Walsh to help find Katchoo, despite the horrible truths she learns about Katchoo’s hidden past. Then, when David argues with his sister Darcy for Katchoo’s freedom, things come to a violent climax resulting in ruin and the shocking death of a major character! Plus, for the first time, never-before-seen pages of script and story notes on missing scenes that shed new light on key moments in the story.

Softcover, 152 pages, B&W. Mature Readers
Cover price $14.95.

If you have not read the first four volumes (The Collected Strangers in Paradise, I Dream of You, It’s a Good Life, and Love Me Tender), I recommend you do so, or you’ll be missing vital backstory.

What’s a girl to do? It seems that no matter what Katchoo does, she can’t win. Never one to have many friends, Katchoo realizes that she’s lost one of the few people she’s ever felt she could trust (slow though that may have been in coming), and, worse, that it was her fault. How can she expect David to open up to her when she never tells him anything about herself? Determined to set things right, Katchoo goes to find David, the only way she can… by asking the dreaded Darcy Parker for a favor.

How far will Katchoo go to find David? How far will Darcy go to bend Katchoo to her whims? How far will David go to save Katchoo? And how far will Francine go just to find out what’s going on?

Immortal Enemies continues the stories of Katchoo’s attempts (and failures) to escape her past. It seems that there’s nothing she can do to get away from mistakes that continue to haunt her, and endangering her friends. As with the rest of the series, the book is rife with emotional conflict and physical violence, and puts our heroes and heroines in any number of impossible situations.

If you’ve enjoyed the previous volumes of the series, you’re sure to love Immortal Enemies.

Terry Moore’s Graphic Novel ‘Strangers In Paradise’ On Way To Big Screen

Terry Moore and filmmaker Angela Robinson are partnering to adapt Moore’s long-running graphic novel Strangers In Paradise for film. The comic follows Katchoo, a beautiful young woman living a quiet life with everything going for her. She’s smart, independent and very much in love with her best friend, Francine. Then Katchoo meets David, a gentle but persistent young man determined to win Katchoo’s heart. The resulting love triangle is a touching comedy of romantic errors until Katchoo’s former employer comes looking for her and $850,000 in missing mob money. As her idyllic life begins to fall apart, Katchoo discovers no one can be trusted and that the past she thought she left behind now threatens to destroy her and everything she loves, including Francine.

“Angela and I have known each other for years and I greatly admire her creative vision.” said Moore. “From day one our common goal was to bring Strangers In Paradise to the screen. It’s a complex story that took years to write and Angela gets it on every level. I can’t wait to get started.”

Robinson’s Professor Marston And The Wonder Woman, an origin story of the man who created Wonder Woman and the women who inspired the character, stars Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall and Bella Heathcote and is premiering at the Toronto Film Festival. The film, which Robinson wrote and directed, will be released by Annapurna on October 13.

“I’ve been wanting to adapt Strangers In Paradise for over a decade, since the first time I read it and couldn’t put it down. Terry Moore writes real female characters with such breathtaking sensitivity,” said Robinson. “With Strangers In Paradise he pulls off the nearly impossible — a sexy, stylish crime story with tons of heart. I look forward to our collaboration.”

Moore is the Eisner Award-winning creator of the Strangers in Paradise series. His horror series Rachel Rising was nominated for a 2012 Bram Stoker Award in the Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel category by the Horror Writers Association.

Collects Strangers in Paradise (1996 Image/Homage) #6-12. Near mint, 5th print.