“We were somewhere around Albuquerque on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.”
When you think about it, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Breaking Bad do make for the perfect double-bill.
Hunter S. Thompson’s seminal piece of gonzo journalism, which was later brilliantly adapted for the screen by Terry Gilliam, follows Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo as they desperately chase the American dream through a drug-crazed haze. An excess amount of drugs and drinking ultimately brings loneliness, isolation and despair. Ah, sounds just like JOE HQ on a Monday morning.
You could just substitute the names of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman into that last paragraph and you would get a fairly accurate description of Vince Gilligan’s iconic show Breaking Bad, with less magnets of course.
Yeah, bitch! Magnets!
We were delighted to see that Ralph Steadman, the artist who worked with Hunter S. Thompson to create the brilliant imagery for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, has teamed up with the Breaking Bad creator to design these limited edition steelbooks for the Blu-Ray release of the show.
Steadman told website Pissed off Geek (what a name), “I watched the Breaking Bad whole series in two weeks and now suffer withdrawal symptoms. At first, I thought ‘this series is going to be all about death and desecration,’ but instead became a more complex landscape of human relationships.
” I hope I put something of these feelings into the portraits that I made of the characters, which were landscapes in themselves. An irony in the subject of crystal meth is how beautifully it resembles the desert sky.”
Take a look at this gallery as every main character gets their own illustration, some of these are absolutely wonderful.
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