Vertigo Pop! - Bangkok #1

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• 8.0

  Comics Bulletin - Page45

  May 31, 2003

  Tuesday has guilt-tripped her boyfriend Marshall (or "Marz" as he insists on being called) into taking them to Thailand on the proceeds from a cheesy late-time movie he's just acted in, after finding out he'd fucked his co-star in her trailer. This is his penance, and Tuesday has every intention of making the entire trip a punishment. Even if it means buying an elephant. That's as far as she's though things through. Unfortunately, if you don't make specific plans of your own, you're going to end up as part of someone else's. And so Marz stumbles under the influence of Julien and Benny (the latter being less of a sex tourist, more of a "sexpatriate"), who need a mule to get a sex-slave back to the States: "Somewhere in the crowd of maggot-infested backpackers who crawl through Bangkok day after day, we're going to find the dumbest sucker of all." And that would be Marz. "That was our vacation in Bangkok. We showed up with our good old American ways, wisdom and cash. And when we left... Read Full Review