Badass: A Relentless Onslaught of the Toughest Warlords, Vikings, Samurai, Pirates, Gunfighters, and Military Commanders to Ever

Description

The badasses populating the pages of Badass are the most savagely awesome historical figures to ever strap on a pair of chain mail gauntlets and run screaming into battle. Author Ben Thompson-considered by many to be the Internet's foremost expert on badassitude-has gathered together a rogues' gallery of butt-stomping rogues, from Julius Caesar and Genghis Khan to Blackbeard, George S. Patton, and Bruce Lee. Their bone-breaking exploits are illustrated by top artist from the fields of gaming, comics, and cards-DC Comics illustrator Matt Haley and Thomas Denmark, illustrator for the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. This is not your boring high school history-this is tough, manly, unrelentingly Badass!

Ben Thompson made his first (and only) appearance as a stand-up comedian in the winter of 1986-7, reading a photocopied Ronnie Corbett monologue to an unreceptive student audience. He has subsequently written for The Face, GQ, The Independent, Mojo, NME, New Statesman & Society, Sight & Sound and the Saturday Telegraph Magazine, and (as comedy critic of The Independent On Sunday, from 1994-7) politely declined annual invitations to join the Perrier Award judging panel.