The Story of Ricky does not just blur genre lines; it tramples the very notion of these distinctions. Ricky’s hyper-violent story takes place in a future (2001, to be exact) where housing criminals is simply a government job run by the private business sector. He is serving a sentence in a maximum-security prison after running wild on a gang of drug dealers who caused his girlfriend’s death. Ricky soon runs into trouble with the thugs who control the prison population at the corrupt warden’s behest, resulting in scenes of bloodshed and disembowelment that would make Herschell Gordon Lewis smile. Eyes pop out of skulls like ping-pong balls, fists punch through stomachs, and intestines used for strangulation. Ricky even ties his own severed tendons back together to continue fighting! The Story of Ricky is an unforgettable spectacle of carnage; it is epic in its own way and readers must see it at least once. Based on the Japanese manga Riki-Oh.
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