paperback, 256 pages
Published May 1, 2018 by Dark Horse Books.
"Fight Club 2 is available exclusively as a Graphic Novel! Some imaginary friends never go away. Ten years after starting Project Mayhem, he lives a mundane life. A kid, a wife. Pills to keep his destiny at bay. But it won't last long, the wife has seen to that. He's back where he started, but this go-round he's got more at stake than his own life. The time has arrived. Rize or Die. New York Tomes bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk and acclaimed artist Cameron Stewart have collaborated for one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events of 2015--the return of Tyler Durden. The first rule of Fight Club 2 might be not to talk about it, but Fight Club 2 is generating international headlines and will introduce a new generation of readers to Project Mayhem. Praise for the comics that comprise Fight Club 2: "At turns deeply …
"Fight Club 2 is available exclusively as a Graphic Novel! Some imaginary friends never go away. Ten years after starting Project Mayhem, he lives a mundane life. A kid, a wife. Pills to keep his destiny at bay. But it won't last long, the wife has seen to that. He's back where he started, but this go-round he's got more at stake than his own life. The time has arrived. Rize or Die. New York Tomes bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk and acclaimed artist Cameron Stewart have collaborated for one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events of 2015--the return of Tyler Durden. The first rule of Fight Club 2 might be not to talk about it, but Fight Club 2 is generating international headlines and will introduce a new generation of readers to Project Mayhem. Praise for the comics that comprise Fight Club 2: "At turns deeply poignant and very funny, Palahniuk's freakish fables capture a twisted zeitgeist and add an oddly inspirational and subversive voice to the contemporary canon ... In the post-9/11 present, a hyperactive, Internet-obsessed, war- and recession-weary America apparently needs Tyler again."--THE ATLANTIC "The book is fantastic, my highest recommendation ... Excellent work by Cameron Stewart and David Mack, and by our awesome friends at Dark Horse Comics."--Brian Michael Bendis "If Tyler Durden needed a resurgence, there's no time like the present for his return ... Fight Club 2 is a comic that taps back into everything great about the source material, and one that makes Tyler Durden's warm nihilistic embrace a welcome draw back into a familiar world of cynicism, violence, and anarchy ... "Tyler Lives," and I couldn't be happier by the prospect of more bedlam."--NEWSARAMA "Palahniuk is delivering a worthy sequel to his most beloved story."--THE NERDIST "Entertaining."--COMIC BOOK RESOURCES "Excellent."--THE BEAT "An amazing piece of work. You do not want to miss out on this."--COMICVINE "Perfect."--FORCES OF GEEK "We have a worthy sequel on our hands ... A must read."--COMICOSITY "Cameron Stewart truly outdoes himself on every level in this book."--BLOODY DISGUSTING "Clever and beautiful."--COMICS ALLIANCE"--
"Ten years after starting Project Mayhem, Sebastian lives a mundane life. A kid, a wife. Pills to keep his destiny at bay. But it won't last long, the wife has seen to that. He's back where he started, but this go-round he's got more at stake than his own life"--
Palahniuk attempts to come to terms with the icon he has created. His ideas are exhausted and he retreats into metafiction and psychoanalytical explanations
Haha what an ending! I didn't see this coming, it sort of makes it worth reading all 10 comics for this. I'm sure this ending will upset reading, but tough luck, Chuck already deals with the unhappy fans here.
The cover is brilliant too, the best in the series.
For the whole series I'll give it 2.5 out of 10. Super disappointed overall, a novel most definitely should have been written instead. I might have given it 3.5 overall if the illustrator didn't keep drawing over the text, for me that took a lot out of the experience.
Roight, off to find the next comic to read.
The penultimate episode in this series. So glad to be near the end. This episode starts the series conclusion well, most of the main characters are reunited and Tyler's plan kicks off big time.
For me this is the episode with the funny bits in it, you find out just who Tyler has been sleeping with and the fourth wall being broken by Chuck was humourous, the cross overs between the comic and reality start to get messy, it works though.
So little happens in each of these comics that it's tough to find much to say in a review, without repeating myself.
This series is like some kind of roller coaster ride, volume 7 was the worst in the series and then Chuck pulls this one out of the bag. Fantastic stuff. I finally understand Tyler's plan and it is much bigger than his plan in Fight club 1. In this volume the plot flows nicely, the old people are out in force with flame throws and grenades, I'm sure I'll be going to hell but they had me laughing jumping out of a plan in their wheelchairs.
One thing stops this from getting 5 stars and it's that thing that has annoyed me the whole series, lots of little objects draw over the top of the speech bubbles, so bad you can't make out what is written.
Still I hope Chuck keeps up the momentum to the end now.
The worst book in the series so far. This bring very little to the story, apart from a zombie? Makes no sense to me. Some nice illustrations so it gets 2 stars for that. I am still struggling with this series, things had been picking up but now it's gone backwards...unless this is the lull you sometimes get in a story....fingers crossed.
pretty ultra meta and messy. I imagine this was way more fun to write.
This was what I was expecting from Palahniuk when I heard he was doing fight club 2. Conspiracy's, madness and plot twists galore. this may be a short issue but he has managed to pack a lot into this one. I don't want to give anything away but Tyler's plans for Sebastian and Darla are really messed up.
I've enjoyed reading this one more than the others, it gives me hope for the remaining comics.
This series is slowly improving. A few plot twists in this episode, some real Tyler Durden mayhem stuff going down too, this time the art world is the victim.
I've complained before about all the clutter on the pages blocking up what's going on, it has happened again in this issue. This time however, I get what it's trying to do, a lot of pills are being taken and instead Sebastian is seeing pills in place of peoples faces. Nice touch.
Things are picking up, at last we have some fighting, and Angel face is back to dish out a beating. Good stuff. Still loads of bizarre scenes which I don't understand though. Really liked the front cover of this issue, the best so far.
This series is still not working for me really, by far the best part of each issue is Tyler's words on the last page, in this one the fans have done some real funny stuff to spread Tyler's plan.
What an I missing here? Am I reading a different version to everybody else who gives these book 4 and 5 stars? This was better than volume 1 in that there was less clutter on the pages, but it was still dull. There was a bit of violence which happens off-page and you just see the end result. The most interesting part is at the end when Tyler Durden leaves a message to the reader, I really wish this had been made into a novel, the graphic novel seems a way of chickening out of doing something properly.
Not really sure what the fuss is over this, lots of high ratings, I found it really dull, so dull I am struggling to find anything to write for this review, I'm close to just putting in a load of animated gifs just to fill the page.
I laughed once in this, Marla at the support group. The separation between Tyler and Sebastian was not done as well I as was hoping.
The illustrations were good, but there is the odd annoying drawing over the writing.
