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[5 Skull Comic Review] “Intersect” #2 Is A Mad Journey Worth Taking
Reading “Intersect” #2 is like looking through a key hole into another dimension; you can sort of make out some familiar shapes and from what you can hear it sound like english, but what you are seeing and hearing is twisted and wrong. All you really know for sure is that things in that dimension are supremely fucked. If you are like me, watching the horror unfold through an opaque lens is intruiging, engaging, and to the truest cosmic voyeur, delicious. “Intersect” is a lot to digest and requires you to embrace what you can’t clearly see. It is easy to dismiss by some, but if you are like me, impossible to stop thinking about.
WRITTEN BY: Ray Fawkes
ART BY: Ray Fawkes
PUBLISHER: Image
PRICE: $3.50
RELEASE:: December 17, 2014
Review by Eric Switzer
The first page does a great job summarizing the things that were discernible about the first issue. It makes you feel like you didn’t miss anything, and in a book where it feels like you don’t understand anything, it, for a moment, maybe me feel like I had it figured out. That feeling subsided pretty immediately as the issue began and fever dream continued. Reading this second issue, I felt like I was getting sucked back into this nightmare, like I was trapped and had never actually stopped reading between the first and second issue. “Intersect” is definitely a book that gets under your skin.
In this issue we are reminded that Jason and Alison, the two lives inhabiting the same body, have competing agendas in mind. With Jason in control he leads Kid “deeper” to try to discover what is happening to them. The haunting voice comes in, perhaps shouting across the city, perhaps residing in their minds, and the two begin to transform again. Bones cracking and turning, faces pushing through, it is a truly horrific scene and even made more disturbing by the abstract art that only suggests: the true horror of it is left to your imagination. The two are captured by armed men who are supposedly the police and lead them to a roof top where an old man is waiting for them. He references them by name and Kid recognizes him as a street preacher. He says some cryptic stuff and shows them a new perspective of what the city has become. Just then the dog/man lucky who has been hunting them appears.
If my description of the events in this book seem difficult to follow or as if some crucial details or missing, that is what reading this book feels like. But don’t let that deter you, this is meant to be unravelled, slowly and agonizingly. If you can embrace the madness, this will be a journey worth taking.
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Eric Switzer is an aspiring filmmaker and screenplay writer living in Los Angeles. His work tends to focus on the lighter side of entropy, dystopic futures, and man’s innate struggle with his own mortality. He can be found on twitter @epicswitzer or reached via email at ericswitzerfilm@gmail.com.
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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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