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High Heaven Vol. 1: The Austerity Gospel Kindle & comiXology

by Tom Peyer (Author), Greg Scott (Artist), Andy Troy (Colorist), Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
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Collecting the acclaimed tale of chronic malcontent David Weathers, who dies and goes to Heaven-where everything is terrible, and everybody hates a complainer. A savage satire by writer Tom Peyer (Hourman, Batman '66) with art by Greg Scott (Black Hood, X-Files). Features the entire five-issue series plus a bonus illustrated script feature with commentary by Peyer.
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Editorial Reviews

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Subversively, wicked fun. ― Comic Mix

Thoughtful and clever.
― Portland Oregonian

Hilarious dark satire…. The art by Greg Scott is wonderfully detailed and expressive. ― Impulse Gamer

A very biting take on the concept of eternal happiness.
― Omni Comics

About the Author

Tom Peyer - AHOY Comics' editor-in-chief's long, curly hair was declared "best in comics" by the influential social media account Comics In The Golden Age. He has written such comics as Penultiman, Hashtag: Danger, High Heaven, Legion of Super-Heroes, Hourman, and Marvel Team-Up. One of the original editors of DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, today he writes and edits AHOY comics from a house across from a cemetery in a leafy suburb of Syracuse, NY.

Greg Scott is a comic book artist who pencils and inks his own work. He has drawn such titles as X-Files, Black Hood, Steve McQueen, and Area 51. He broke into comics through espionage: learning the time of day Marvel editors went outside for a cigarette break, he passed them art samples and was quickly given an assignment.

Richard Williams' illustration work has appeared in many national magazines, most notably MAD, for whom he was the cover artist during the 1980s. He has also illustrated children’s books (The Legend of the Christmas Rose, Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the American West) and painted covers for many young adult books such as Encyclopedia Brown.

A partial list of his clients includes: IBM, NBC television, Hallmark Cards, Nabisco, Chesebrough-Pond, MAD, Esquire, Ms., Reader's Digest, TV Guide, Time, Family Circle, Parents, Field & Stream, Women’s Day, Atlantic Monthly, Guideposts, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Forbes, Bantam books, Simon & Schuster, Holiday House, Dell, Doubleday, Scholastic Books, Harper Collins, Putnam, Clarion Books, MacMillan Press, Ballantine, Atheneum Books, David C. Cooke, EP Dutton, Recorded Books, Henry Holt, Aladdin Books, Canard Design, Abrams Art Books, National Park Service, Della Femina McNamee, Drambuie, Strathmore Paper, and the Library of Congress.

His paintings have been purchased by Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Howard Stern and are in the collections of the Society of Illustrators and the Library of Congress.

Richard holds a master's degree in illustration from Syracuse University.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09M676VDT
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ AHOY Comics (July 24, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 24, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 666592 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 123 pages
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Nolan P. Smith
4.0 out of 5 stars A not so heavenly heaven
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2019
David Weathers is not that great of a guy, he is that constant complainer we all know and tolerate, and life hasn’t been too kind to him. But after being rejected by a woman, played for a fool by his best friend it sends him raging off in anger, it all ends- badly. Like a piano falling on you, crushing you to death bad. That sends David to the other side, in a massive line to meet Saint Peter, when he learns that he is going to Heaven. What a relief, right? Wrong. Because Heaven for David is a dreary, mundane version of the afterlife. But there is a Heaven-Heaven, a High Heaven, but David doesn’t get to enjoy that.

It turns out there is a Heaven for all the not so great, but not so bad people, and it is all tied to L-Meat. We get to see a very different take on the afterlife, and how life and death don’t always go as planned. Imagine Heaven being a dorm room where you have to share with the best friend that drove you to death in the first place? The irony, right? From Tom Peyer, Greg Scott and Andy Troy, we get a dark, humor-tinged view of the hereafter, and done so in a very entertaining way. We see the angels and saints, and we see how this mediocre version of Heaven came to be, and what exactly the future holds for David. Is there a happy ending for this guy? We also see how Heather, the woman that rejected David and was engaged to the jerk best friend of David, deals with the loss of two people close to her and heads up: not well.

This is an entertaining, matured rated book, focusing on the stereotypical version of Heaven and injecting some real-world lessons into the afterlife. The artwork here clean and gritty when needed and the designs here are fantastic. High Heaven hits the high notes as Ahoy Comics has impressed me once more.
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Crazie Betty
2.0 out of 5 stars Didn't live up to its potential
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2020
I feel like this had the bones to be something really entertaining, but there just wasn’t enough follow through. I thoroughly enjoyed the idea of there being a ‘low heaven’ for people that weren’t great but weren’t terrible, and then the high heaven for those that truly deserved to be there. I enjoy the satirical comedy of that. High heaven included all the things you would want; pool parties, food, partying, drinking and sex. Low heaven basically consisted of large, dull, low-income apartment complexes that you had to share with a roommate. Everything is literally just ok. Not terrible and not great. The main protagonist is dead set on figuring out how to get into high heaven, and maybe even get all the way back to Earth to be reunited with the woman he loved when he died. He is also determined to find out what happened to his parents.

Unfortunately, every single one of those plot threads are completely dropped and the story just ends with no real conclusion at all. For that, I’m giving this story 2 stars. I just kind of felt ripped off by a half-baked story. Also, this is a completed product, just so everyone is aware. There will be no sequel or additional volumes, this is it. If there had been, I would’ve been happy with this graphic novel. But with how it stands I personally don’t think it should’ve even been released.

Received via Netgalley. All reviews and opinions are expressly my own
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Pop Bop
3.0 out of 5 stars A Spotty Story Arc, With Quite A Few Funny/Edgy Bits
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2019
We start with David, a whiny complainer with a side of sour and sadsack. He's in that "Curb Your Enthusiasm" category of love-hate, but mostly hate, characters. Not a promising start. The best description of David comes from his Uncle who meets up with him in Heaven and remembers the ice cream store incident. (In that, young David insisted on getting rum raisin ice cream and then cried when it was as disgusting as he had been warned. As Uncle Pat observes, "What kind of miserable little d&@# cries when you take him for ice cream?".)

So, if this were just David whinging it would get old fast. But there's a plot, of sorts, and some other set pieces that buoy the project. MILD SPOILERS. First off, there's real High Heaven, which is sweet. David is in regular Heaven. Think of the difference between a top of the list cruise line and a cutrate cheapo cattlecar cruise line. Or a five star hotel across the street from a decrepit housing project. Intriguing. Are we making some class divide points here? You can read it that way, and that works. (By the way, there are only a few references to Hell, but what you get makes Hell sound like a fun degenerate booze cruise. Worth exploring more in later issues.)

Anyway, after David wears us out with all of his gripes about crappy Heaven, we learn why there are two versions. The flashback to all of the big time saints working out the details is the best part of the book, even though after this point the story pretty much goes off the rails in terms of coherent action. What we also learn is that Saint Peter is a major dick, (think nastiest maitre'd ever), and he steals every scene he's in.

You see what I mean by episodic? David is not especially engaging, the plot is haphazard, some of the twists are krazy kat, but along the way there is enough pointed, edgy, and clever riffing to make the whole read worthwhile, entertaining, and skewed enough to be thought provoking. An interesting one of a kind sort of find. I didn't actually think I was liking it as I read it until I realized I couldn't put it down.

(Please note that I received a free advance will-self-destruct-in-x-days Adobe Digital copy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)
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Kristine Fisher
2.0 out of 5 stars High Heaven, Vol. 1
Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2019
High Heaven: The Austerity Gospel by Tom Peyer et. al. is a free NetGalley e-comicbook that I read in late May.

Hyperspeed, David Copperfield (the novel, not the magician) style biography to bring a reader up to speed on a character who (hmm) is also named David, has died, and on his way to face the judgement of Saint Peter and less than spartan afterliving conditions, which he complains about endlessly and thanklessly. He cannot reunite with his parents, who seem to have been similarly thrown into an in-between, not quite heaven, not quite hell as David has. In the struggle to reach a level idyllically above or devilishly below where he is now, there is realistic, somewhat grotesque face rendering.
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