"Before The Sandman, there was Violent Cases, the first teaming of ... writer Neil Gaiman and ... artist Dave McKean. Now, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of this seminal work, Violent Cases is being re-issued in a hardcover edition, [a book that] ... reveals the often murky nexus between memory and imagination through the narrator's cloudy childhood remembrance of a visit to Al Capone's osteopath--and the impact of his seedy stories on an impressionable youth"--Amazon.com.
