The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 by Thomas Ott

The worthiness of the book lies instead in the way in which Ott unspools his protagonist’s demise. It’s not terribly difficult to predict where things end up - after all, the book begins with the quotation “Good people are always so sure they’re right,” from a woman who was executed in prison. As the man notices bits of the number turning up in his life, he decides to place his fate in the number, taking it for a wild ride of good luck.īut after a night of gambling success, the man wakes to find the dream turned ugly, and the number only leads him farther into darkness. The wordless story follows a prison executioner who discovers a slip of paper marked only with the previously mentioned number. Those repeated numbers create a cadence to the book, a dark rhythm drummed into readers’ heads that’s further instilled through Ott’s consistent use of four panels per page. Henry-esque plot twists will delight fans of classic horror like The Twilight Zone and Tales from the Crypt his hallucinatory, hyper-detailed scratch-board illustrations will haunt you long after you've put the book down.Hardcover: 144 pages Publisher: Fantagraphics (May 17, 2008) Condition: Brand NewLanguage: English ISBN-10: ISBN-13:978756 Dimensions: 7 x 0.8 x 9.5 inches Weight: 1.The sequence of numbers 753-6-96-8 sit at the top of each page of the superlative new horror graphic novel The Number by Swedish artist Thomas Ott. But from that day on, his luck changes and the numbers bring him only bad luck, sending him inexorably into an abyss that he might not recover from.

He gets to know a woman, falls in love with her, and one night, in a casino, he wins a huge amount of money when gambling on these numbers.But the next morning, the woman and money have disappeared.The man goes in search of the woman and the money. And the numbers signal a radical change in his luck.

To find out their hidden meaning could add a new meaning to his life as well, so the guard stumbles into situations in which the number or part of it seem to achieve a certain importance and offer him hints and possible solutions. When clearing up the cell of a prisoner who has been sentenced to death and subsequently executed, a prison guard finds a small piece of paper with a combination of numbers on it.On the spur of the moment, he puts it into his pocket.As the guard lives a solitary, monotonous life, the numbers on the paper awake his curiosity.

The Number 753-6-96-8 by Thomas Ott (2008)A horrific graphic novel, without words.Swiss horror master Thomas Ott returns with the first full-length graphic novel of his career.

The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 by Thomas Ott