A review by unladylike
Le Cinquième Beatles by Andrew C. Robinson, Kyle Baker, Vivek J. Tiwary

4.0

This was a gorgous, well-told story. In the afterward Vivek Tiwary explains how obsessed he's been with the Brian Epstein story for decades and is currently turning this graphic novel into a film screenplay. He also mocks standard legal disclaimers and says that almost everything in this book actually happened. Which really makes me wonder more about the various surreal, hallucinatory? panels throughout the book. It never says exactly what drugs Epstein was being prescribed, or what evidence there was that influenced some of the bizarre things we see from his perspective. That's what I want to know in some follow-up discussions.

I'd absolutely recommend this book, even to folks like me who only casually care about The Beatles, for their impact.