Patrick Swayze kicks ass in an illustrated, philosophical 'Road House'

I’ve always loved Road House. The 1989 Patrick Swayze vehicle is an awful, utterly awesome movie filled with clattering dialogue and razor-sharp roundhouse kicks. Babak Ganjei agrees with me. He's dedicated the past few months of his life to creating a graphic novel based on Swayze's fourth-greatest movie, titled Babak Ganjei's Roadhouse, and it’s astonishingly good.

Roadhouse was born from willful procrastination. "I'd just started renting a studio I couldn't afford with no real idea what I was going to do,” Ganjei tells The Verge. "I had Road House streaming off Netflix on my laptop. I'm not sure why, but rather than turn it off I figured I'd use it as the source material for some drawing." After recreating a few frames from the movie, it became clear that the next logical step was to do the entire movie. "A handful of drawings would be some hipster drivel, but a minute-by-minute reimagining would take the movie as a basis and turn [it] into something else."

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