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Review: “Translucid” # 5
With “Translucid” #5 upon us, I realize I’m going to dearly miss this exceptionally captivating series. It’s been an excellent ride and although it’ll be done next month I can’t help but appreciate it’s brilliance. This is a superhero story that could only be told as a limited series. An ongoing would be too constricting by the inherent fact that it must keep going on. Next issue could be a very real end for both The Navigator and The Horse. There’s real tension here; our hero is in real trouble and the end is truly in sight.
WRITTEN BY: Claudio Sanchez & Chondra Echert
ART BY: Daniel Bayliss
PUBLISHER: BOOM! Studios
PRICE: $3.99
RELEASE: August 20, 2014
Reviewed By Torbin Chimners
The Navigator is firmly in the grasp of The Horse, who’s pumping our hero full of an incredibly powerful psychedelic hallucinogen that’s got Navigator tripping balls. His world is twisted beyond comprehension and it looks wicked-awesome. With our hero incapacitated we spend a good majority of this issue with Cornelius, who ended off last issue knocked out and on the floor. He’s recovering from the whole kitchen incident with his mother and wakes up to a nurse and a social worker in the hospital. He’s going to be taken to a new home, a foster home. Needless to say he won’t be suffering any more pain from his appallingly abusive father.
“Angel Guardian” Foster Home, where Cornelius is sent, is your classic Catholic Priest and Nun foster home: it even comes complete with child abuse. Even after all the traumas Cornelius has been through, he still stands up for the little guy and continues to show his convictions as a budding hero. But, things can never be good for too long. The world around Cornelius falls apart in glorious psychedelic fashion.
While I originally thought that the way Cornelius’s world would fall apart in times of great stress was just his developing brain’s way to cope, I now believe it to be something much different. It bares too much of a resemblance to the drug The Horse is administering to The Navigator. Could all of Translucid’s Cornelius sections be The Horse peering back into The Navigators past to uncover his secrets? This could just be the delusion of this reviewer.
Translucid #5 doesn’t fundamentally change things up or answer any questions in earnest. It’s probably saving all of those juicy secrets for Issue #6, but regardless, it’s a great read from start to finish. I have nothing but the utmost certainty that next month’s finale will be spectacular and mind-blowing beyond belief.
Don’t miss it.
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Torbin Chimners AKA Torin Chambers is a rad dude from the nineties who does film stuff or something. Thomas the Tank Engine is his favorite transformer. Find him on Twitter @Vulgar_Rhombus
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‘Curse of the Where Wolf’ Bites Into August Release With Trio of Werewolf Theatrical Screenings [Exclusive Preview]
Larry Chaney‘s hairy misadventures are continuing in the sequel graphic novel Curse of the Where Wolf from creative team Rob Saucedo, Debora Lancianese, and Jack Morelli, and its author is celebrating with a trio of horror’s greatest werewolf films.
The Curse of the Where Wolf hits shelves on August 7 from Encyclopocalypse Publications.
That coincides with the launch of a theatrical screening event in Houston, Texas, featuring a trio of seminal werewolf flicks turning 45 this year: The Howling on August 7, Wolfen on August 14, and An American Werewolf in London on August 21.
Each screening features a “werewolf in film” presentation as well as a book signing from Where Wolf author and River Oaks Theatre artistic director Rob Saucedo.
In the new graphic novel, “Being a werewolf sucks. Reporter Larry Chaney wanted to be a hero. Instead, he became a werewolf. Now, caught between incredible new powers and a desire to eat everything (and everyone) in sight, Larry must find a cure for his curse. Or die trying.”
“With Where Wolf, I wanted to tell a whodunit set in a furry convention, so the story was pretty contained within a very specific setting and genre. With Curse of the Where Wolf, I wanted to celebrate everything I love about the possibility of comic books. Curse of the Where Wolf is a funny book, in every sense of the phrase, but it’s also an earnest look at a person’s struggle to become a better version of themselves, especially when the alternative is to become a literal monster,” Saucedo says of Curse.
The original graphic novel was previously serialized as the first webcomic hosted on Fangoria before being collected by Encyclopocalypse Publications in 2023 and has already been optioned for film, podcast, and television development ahead of launch by producers James Fino (“The Freak Brothers” for Tubi, “Rick and Morty” for Adult Swim) and Charles Horak (First Date for Magnolia Pictures).
Expect Larry to find himself in even weirder situations in the 362-page full color sequel; Saucedo has provided Bloody Disgusting with exclusive art pages from the upcoming graphic novel that showcase lupine humor.
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