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[5 Skull Comic Review] “Intersect” #2 Is A Mad Journey Worth Taking

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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.

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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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‘Witchblade’ is Getting Resurrected This Summer in New Comic Series from Top Cow and Image Comics

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Witchblade, the popular comic series that initially ran from 1995 to 2015 and launched a TV series, is getting resurrected in a new comic series from Top Cow and Image Comics. It’s set to unleash heavy metal, black magic and blood this summer.

Look for the new Witchblade series to launch on July 17, 2024.

In Witchblade #1, “New York City Police Detective Sara Pezzini’s life was forever fractured by her father’s murder. Cold, cunning, and hellbent on revenge, Sara now stalks a vicious criminal cabal beneath the city, where an ancient power collides and transforms her into something wild, magnificent, and beyond her darkest imaginings. How will Sara use this ancient power, or will she be consumed by it?”

The series is penned by NYT Best-Selling writer Marguerite Bennett (Animosity, Batwoman, DC Bombshells) and visualized by artist Giuseppe Cafaro (Suicide Squad, Power Rangers, Red Sonja). The creative duo is working with original co-creator Marc Silvestri, who is the CEO of Top Cow Productions Inc. and one of the founders of Image Comics. They are set to reintroduce the series to Witchblade’s enduring fans with “a reimagined origin with contemporary takes on familiar characters and new story arcs that will hook new readers and rekindle the energy and excitement that fueled the 90’s Image Revolution that shaped generations of top creators.”

Bennett said in a statement, “The ability to tell a ferocious story full of monsters, sexuality, vision, and history was irresistible.” She adds, “Our saga is sleek, vicious, ferocious, and has a lot to say about power in the 21st century and will be the first time that we are stopping the roller coaster to let more people on. I’ve loved Witchblade since I was a child, and there is truly no other heroine like Sara with such an iconic legacy and such a rich, brutal relationship to her own body.”

“The Witchblade universe is being modernized to reflect how Marguerite beautifully explores the extreme sides of Sara through memories, her personal thoughts, like desire and hunger, in her solitude and when she is possessed by the Witchblade. So, I had to visually intersect a noir True Detective-like world with a supernatural, horror world that is a fantastic mix between Berserk and Zodiac,” Cafaro stated.

Marc Silvestri notes, “This is brand new mythology around Sara, and I can’t wait for you to fall in love with her and all the twists and turns. Discover Witchblade reimagined this summer, and join us as we bring all the fun of the 90s to the modern age and see how exciting comics can be. I can’t wait for you to read this new series.”

Witchblade#1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, July 17th, for $4.99 for 48 pages. And it’ll come with multiple cover variants.

  • Cover A: Marc Silvestri and Arif Prianto (Full Color)

  • Cover B: Giuseppe Cafaro and Arif Prianto (Full Color)

  • Cover C: Blank Sketch Cover

  • Cover D (1/10): Dani and Brad Simpson (Full Color)

  • Cover E (1/25): Marc Silvestri and Arif Prianto, Virgin Cover (Full Color)

  • Cover F (1/50): J.Scott Campbell (Full Color)

  • Cover G (1/100): Bill Sienkiewicz. (Full Color)

  • Cover H (1/250): Line art by Marc. Virgin Cover, Inks (B/W)

Witchblade #1 will also be available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.

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