Matadero Cinco

"I, Billy Pilgrim, will die, have always died and will always die on February 13, 1976." Billy Pilgrim has detached itself in time. He cannot control where he is going. He lives in a continual state of stage fright, because he has no idea what part of his life he is going to have to act out next. Billy has gone to bed being an old widower and has woken up on his wedding day. He has built a loving family and witnessed the Dresden bombing. He entered through a door in 1955 and left through it in 1941. He has gone through that door again and found himself in 1963. He has seen his birth and death many times, he says, and travels randomly to any time during his lifetime. So he says. Matadero Cinco, the first comic book adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's original novel, drawn by Albert Monteys, is both a scathing look at the horror and tragedy of war, where children are sent to the front and die (that's how it was and will be ), and a poignant examination of what it means to be a fallible human. First published in 1969 in the middle of the Vietnam War, the novel's powerful anti-war message, the absurd and black humor, and the sharp observations of human nature remain in full force.