BTTM FDRS

Name: BTTM FDRS
Author: Ezra Claytan Daniels, illustrated by Ben Passmore
ISBN: 9781683962069

by Ezra Claytan Daniels, illustrated by Ben Passmore

Once a thriving working class neighborhood on Chicago’s south side, the “Bottomyards” is now the definition of urban blight. When an aspiring fashion designer named Darla and her image-obsessed friend, Cynthia, descend upon the neighborhood in search of cheap rent, they soon discover something far more seductive and sinister lurking behind the walls of their new home. Like a cross between Jordan Peele’s Get Out and John Carpenter’s The Thing, Daniels and Passmore’s BTTM FDRS (pronounced “bottomfeeders”) offers a vision of horror that is gross and gory in all the right ways. At turns funny, scary, and thought provoking, it unflinchingly confronts the monsters―both metaphoric and real―that are displacing cultures in urban neighborhoods today.

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"When young urbanites move into poor neighborhoods in search of cheap rents and local color, they often get more than they bargained for. What they don’t usually get are body parts spilling over the toilet rim and face-eating tentacles crawling out of the ventilation systems. That’s the kind of visceral revenge meted out in Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore’s comedic horror comic. Along with its lighthearted story, an unexpectedly radiant color palette and razor-sharp socioeconomic analysis make BTTM FDRS a memorable take on gentrification."

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