This was alright until the last chapter, at which point it becomes so utterly stupid I could not give it more than one star despite having some really decent art.

Meh. It starts off all actiony, but we have absolutely no idea why the big bad has it out for a garbage dude. I thought this was the first of a series but it feels like it's dumping you midstory.
Did not finish, only read the first chapter and there wasn't enough there for me to want to continue.
*Digital review copy provided by NetGalley and publisher.

A way too complicated story about rich and successful members of a cult being sent to kill two garbage men for accidentally offending their leader. The whole thing is just constantly too ridiculous and over the top. The art has a cartoony, manga style that is OK.

I had a blast reading this graphic novel. These two guys were enjoying a normal work day at first. Then someone tries to take them out for some reason. After this person is stopped, they end up facing other assassins, each deadlier than the last. Yet as this story comes to a close these guys come out on top and their lives will never be the same.

I didnt really like this. The art work is ok and there is a lot of action but I am really unclear about the characters and their respective roles. It feels as if there should be more of a backstory.

'Hollywood Trash' by Stephen Sonneveld with art by Pablo Verdugo is a graphic novel about two garbage collectors fighting for their lives.

Hollywood can be a dangerous town, especially if you cross the wrong people. When an entertainment mogul sees the garbage collectors take a bracelet out of his garbage, he sends a variety of odd talent after them to kill them and retrieve the bracelet, including a stuntman, a stage magician, and a talk show host.

The parody is overkill on this one. It's overly loud and obnoxious. I think it's supposed to be funny, but it just comes across as cynical. The art is fine, the story could have been a lot better.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Mad Cave Studios, Diamond Book Distributors, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. It is home to sunshine and the celebrated sign. The Boulevard of dreams. The home of beautiful people.. and crazy cults obsessed with the cacophony of carnage

Meet the Privy Council. It is the most exclusive club in town, headed by the entertainment industry's top mogul, a megalomaniac studio boss who enlists his famous executives to kill the people who stole from him, two local garbage men. - James and Billy.

Part cheeky, part Hollywood satire, we meet a henchman, Leonard Wiley, aka Boom-Boom. Many crazy famous people follow with equally crazy monikers. The setup is simple. James and Billy have picked up something that this evil cult of Hollywood celebrities want and need. We don’t know what that is. We don’t know how they did it. We’re just thrown into the story with “Take Out The Trash.

Hollywood Trash’s writer, Steven Sonneveld, spins a Hollywood blockbuster style plot in plot: Russian spies, arch nemeses, explosions, aword fights, mech tech, a plane chase, and accidental heroes.

The artwork by artist Pablo Verdugo and colorist Jose Exposito for Hollywood Trash is exceptional. Colours pop. Contrasts are sharp. And reds and blues and pinks shine.

Letterer Justin Birch, captures the essence of the action and nowhere does it seem very text or letter heavy and you still enjoy every little detail.

Hollywood Trash starts well. Then stories within a story work nicely. Unfortunately to me, it doesn’t hold even though The parallels of Blockbuster filmmaking are compelling.

I wish there was a better plot. A little more drama. For all the satire, I missed a big tongue in cheek twist and by the end of it, it did literally seem like a typical Hollywood blockbuster without soul. The villains and their motives lacked any real depth. I’d give Hollywood Trash another arc to find its feet. The juxtaposition of a trashy life (literally) while living the dream in Hollywood vs. being a hero in everyday working-class life is a super premise - one that has potential but doesn’t necessarily land completely.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for sending a digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.

1st Line: "... And that is the source of my power, and why the garbage man must die."

Prose (Story): In a lavish Hollywood mansion owned by a world-famous entertainment mogul named Grapevine meets The Privy Council, a clandestine and nefarious club of the famous and near-famous, led by Grapevine, whose latest grab to attain power, influence and wealth seems oddly simple: they must kill a garbage man. One who has something belonging to their ruthless leader that he wants back. As each member of the council (if he or she doesn't want to face Grapevine's wrath) systematically hunts down the hapless James - a burly and good-natured guy completely unaware of what's going on, who only wants to train his new route partner, Billy - little do the two Los Angeles-based garbage collectors understand the eventful day ahead of them, as one assassination attempt after another hunts their every move through Hollywood.

Don's (Review): This volume collects issues 1-5 of the comic, and while I normally wait a day or two (minimum) to write a review, all the negatvie reviews and bashing of this book - on Goodreads especally - spurred me to write ths literally minutes after finishing. The problem on GR seems to be that some are posting low, one-star reviews, and then complaining about how incomprehensible the book was to them. In fact, when reading on, the problem becomes obvious: the reviewer read one or two issues of the comic, jumping in on the middle of the story, whch of course means so, so very much won't make sense. Worse, they are posting these reviews on the page dedicated to the 118-page collected volume of the five issues and NOT for the individual issues, therefore badly skewering the numbers when, in fact, the reviews being left don't apply to this volume! All - inredibly - WRONG; for my taste, even a slap-dash, too-quick ending that left me a bit "Huh?" still didn't hurt the fact that this is an over-the-top, often funny, and beautifully-illustrated parody, of sorts, of a supervillain movie where the majority of the villains are genuinely inept. I loved James and Billy, both good guys just trying to do their job, and as each attempt to kill them ends in delicious disaster, the stakes rise and the reader becomes more invested in wondering just what could a garbage collector have, on some super-rich Hollywood mogul, that'd be worth being killed for? It's a lot of fun, and yes if you are reading the compendium it all DOES make sense (contrary to some GR reviews) by the end; in fact, this would make a great limited series for something like Adult Swim or even Fox; the visual style of the book, as well as the writing, would be ideal for either. Not sure what Oprah would think of all that, considering the very thinly-disguised version of her here, in the form of a major member of The Privy Council - but yeah, please don't listen to the negative reviews; at least not until you've read the full compilation volume, and enjoyed some great art and snarky humor tthat will keep you turning pages. 3.5/5 stars

NOTE: I received a free ARC of this title from NetGalley and the publisher, in exchange for an honest review.

This book gets a forward-leaning 3.5 stars because it is insane in the most fun way possible while also being insane in a way that left me utterly confused about what I'd just read.
Half the things that happen make no sense and the other half make a sad sort of sense, coalescing into an insane ride full of Hollywood-style action and wait-what moments of violence.
The art is slightly cartoony and colorful, which fits the tone of the story to a T.
Overall, it's an interesting and fun read to pass the time, but nothing out of this world. I would say good things about it if asked, but I would probably not even remember to bring it up when asked for a recommendation.

Many happy thanks to NetGalley and Mad Cave Studios for the early read!

Nothing really great about this book but it is a quick read and the characters are kind of cool. The villains are stupid though and when you find out why the villain is doing what he is doing its like why . The art is pretty good but again nothing great.

You really gotta find love for the common man, especially in a place like Hollywood. The best way to do that is by making fun of the rich and famous who want to be anything other than ordinary.

While it's entertaining to see these larger than life personalities, you realize that as people they can be very unsympathetic.

With two garbage men as our heroes who have such lovable quirks with James enjoying life to the point of calling people out as just eating fast food hamburgers as ordinary. Truth is, stuff like that being ordinary makes it a good thing. His new co-worker could certainly use some love of the mundane after life beat him down. With his technical skills being so good like making a garbage truck remote controllable, you notice how much of life's unfortunates got him knocked down.

Then there's Andi who despite being born and raised in fortune and fame found a new calling in rehab. Because when all the famous personalities are these people who look down on the ordinary and see dangerous life threatening events as mundane, something clearly wrong. Andi's own father practically liked the fact she was in the spotlight after almost overdosing.

So what better way to fight these people than taking command of the absurdities like accidentally stripping away a control unit on a crocodile's head? Reality setting in truly is the best way to make something suspend the disbelief of showboating.

This is a book where a group of villains try to defeat some guys who collect Trash. This story was literal shit, it is a simple and quick reading to ingest, however, the development of the villains and those combat events with the villains was a scene shit, it was something too poor, the battle events, it is something It happened too easy to defeat the villains.

The story is interesting, but not the development of the story, that is, the formation of the story was poorly done, I feel that there are very few pages for a story as large as the one it dealt with.

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SPANISH VERSION

Este es un libro donde un grupo de villanos tratan de vencer a unos chicos que recogen la Basura. Esta historia fue una mierda literal, es una lectura sencilla y rapida de ingerir, sin embargo, el desarrollo de los villanos y esos sucesos de combate con los villanos fué una mierda de escena, fue algo demasiado pobre, los sucesos de batalla, es algo que pasó demasiado facil derrotar a los villanos.

La historia es interesante, pero no el desarrollo de la historia, es decir la formación de la historia estuvo mal hecha, siento que son muy pocas paginas para una historia tan grande como la que trató.

WTF? I have no clue what I read. Did I miss something? Is this actually the second volume in the series or maybe even further along? Because, seriously? Suddenly bad villains are after garbage men (who also seem to do some pest control)... Why? What? I was just thrown into a world like this and NO clue what was going on. The trashmen don't know each other.. but at other times it seemed they did. They talked about all sorts of things that apparently happened and I just didn't know what it was about. Evil army? What? They also seemed to know all the villains.. They characters all seemed to be garbage guys, but in the mean time they had skills that matched the villains. It just never made sense and I never got any answers (I am sorry the explanation Papa had was just I didn't get it, it was something about a bracelet, but how? What happened? Later we get the real reason and I was just hating it further.).. The characters weren't that interesting, the villains reasons were even weirder and made even less sense than it often already does.
I wasn't a fan of the villain per chapter thing.
Why did the evil villains have such lame names? I just couldn't take them seriously at all. Pa-pa? Mirror Mirror? Chop Chop?
I kept on reading... not sure why. Probably because I am in a lockdown and I try to DNF as little as possible so I don't run too fast out of books.

Er, some weird people the creators seem to think amusing set about destroying a dustbin lorry, first through hijacking its controls and attacking it from air, then with a Transformers ripoff. We're thrown in at the deep end with this, meaning absolutely zero motivation for anyone is known, meaning the lorry has the most character on the page. It's all utterly pointless – indeed the only review needed is the second word of the book's title.