The Chair Paperback – October 1, 2008

Seriously did not see that coming, okay okay I'm the same person that ran "outside' (?)while watching Identity (John Cusack), though suspenseful, amazingly well written, and gruesome. I could not put the book down! My family had to yell at me three times to get my attention I was so involved (absorbed). Thanks guys for letting me be apart of funding the first round, and the second. If there is any more I would like to continue funding this. To all involved above and beyond Peter and Erin, thanks as well.

This book was great, I really enjoyed reading. The writing was amazing and the art is outstanding it's a most read

can't stop reading it love it!!!!!!!

One of the best I've read since Sin City, of which it reminded me a bit. Moody, fresh, and well-drawn, I'd recommend this to anyone who enjoys a dark, gritty story that's a bit off the beaten path.

This book will make you and everyone around you would wanna stop listening to Satan's lies and stay away from committing crime to avoid being locked up in a dark hole with no exists for the rest of your lives.

Very interesting, well written story and setting. Very dark theme that would make a great movie!

This was my first graphic novel to read and review. The format resembled a comic book. It's drawn in black and white; I would compare it to charcoal art.The story is about Richard Sullivan's final days on death row. Simeti leaves nothing out when he describes prison torture, including extreme violence which results in murders, and deep psychological torment.Sullivan always protested his innocence. This meant nothing to a prisoner on death row with a few days before being executed. He thinks about his life and how he ended up on death row. This isn't easy as he witnesses prison guards beat and rape other prisoners. He also has learned what crimes his fellow prisoners committed in order to be on death row. It's not a pretty picture and all this messes with his mind.The final days are the worst for Sullivan. The guards are more violent to him physically and emotionally. He is at the end of his rope. This results in outbursts of anger as he is just shy of insanity at this point. He does lose it completely and it's pretty horrifying.The graphics are violent, no doubt, but it is equally violent as to what goes on in Sullivan's mind, especially on his final day. I think it proves our minds are more fragile than our physical bodies.The end has a twist to it which I won't spoil for readers.Hats off to graphic artist, Kevin Christensen, for a job well done.The book is labeled for adults, mature audiences. I agree.

The Chair is a dramatic story of a man ten years into a death row sentence, and the harrowing days leading up to his execution. The narrative itself, while adult in the sense of the liberal swearing and graphic imagery that most people would imagine being the status quo of prison life, is easy enough to follow. This in spite of the complexities in detailing the imaginative psychoses that must surely be generated by declining sanities within maximum incarceration.And questioning sanity IS the heart of this tale, if a heart can indeed be found amidst such dark, morbid subject matter.This is very well executed by the sketchy linework and myriad gray tones of the art. At times structurally blockish, the dimensions are generally as real and confined as the environment of the story it tells. This is not sloppy stuff, rather the garishness is a visual study on the mental state of the main character- Richard Sullivan, who after years of wishing his innocence of crimes charged be acknowledged, is now waking to the question of just who the actual criminal really is.There are no exceptions as to who is defined by the past, and this work is a fine statement to that end.All in all, The Chair is a self-contained bit of darkness worth checking out.