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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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‘You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive’ – IDW Dark’s Next Horror Comic Will Make You Question Reality
Five friends. Four houses. One perfect life. Bloody Disgusting is excited to exclusively announce You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive, a brand new horror comic from IDW Dark.
From Eisner-Nominated writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, and rising horror artist Heather Vaughan, You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive is described as a “paranoia-laced, socially-conscious, horror mystery that will leave you questioning reality, and reveal that this crafted world is more of a nightmare than the idealistic dream they were expecting.”
Phoebe Joplin has never questioned the world her parents built: a secluded community where she and her friends were raised to be smarter, stronger, and better than anyone else. No distractions. No dangers. No secrets. Until the night of their graduation.
When one of them dies under impossible circumstances, Phee starts to pull at the edges of her perfect life—and what she finds is something far more terrifying than she ever imagined.
Because this place isn’t a sanctuary. It’s a cage. And no one who discovers the truth ever leaves it alive.
Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing (Batman – One Bad Day: Clayface, Star Trek: The Last Starship) co-write the upcoming IDW Dark horror comic, featuring art by Heather Vaughan.
Jackson Lanzing said in a statement to Bloody Disgusting, “You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive is in many ways a spiritual successor to our last creator-owned horror, The Principles of Necromancy – a dive into the promise and consequence of playing god with the blood of innocents. But the Hivemind book this reminds me of most is Clayface: One Bad Day. This is a deeply human story with intensely raw emotions – five best friends and their five mysterious parents, tearing one another apart for the promise of some impossible glory that’s waiting just beyond their darkest actions. We’re thrilled to be bringing this story to life with our long-time partner in crime, editor Heather Antos, at IDW Dark – and we’re particularly excited to give our Clayface fans a new, brutal and emotional horror made just for them.”
Adds Collin Kelly, “We’re deconstructing a feeling that seems universal these days; our elders have a death grip on their power, without any intention of giving it up to the generations that come next. YNLTPA is about growing up with the limitless potential of the future… and realizing how much it’s a lie we’ve been fed to keep us under the yoke of the past. Bringing this brutal experience to life is our artist and co-creator, Heather Vaughan, who brings an incredible amount of humanity to our cast. But it’s in our youthful leads that Heather’s art really shines – you are going to fall in love with these young people, even as they go through the worst experience of their lives. What we’ve all crafted together is going to be tragic, painful, but above all else, sincere – with a future so uncertain, there’s only one thing we can trust: you’ll never leave this place alive.”
“Some horror stories are about monsters in the dark. YNLTPA is about realizing the monsters raised you,” previews Senior Group Editor Heather Antos. “Working with Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly on this series has been a dream in the darkest possible way. They’ve built a story that’s layered, brutal, and deeply emotional, and every issue gives artist Heather Vaughan opportunities to push the art into places that feel both haunting and deeply personal. Some horror comics will keep you up at night…this is one that will stick with you for years to come.”
The first issue of You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive goes on sale October 14, 2026! Make sure to pre-order at your local comic shop by September to guarantee a copy.
Exclusively check out the various covers for Issue #1 down below.
IDW Publishing’s horror imprint IDW DARK features comics like A Quiet Place: Storm Warning, Smile: For the Camera, The Exorcism at 1600 Penn, Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees, The Twilight Zone, Event Horizon: Dark Descent & Event Horizon: Inferno, and more.
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