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Comic Book Review: We Dare You To Read “Intersect” #3
“Intersect” #3 in no way wakes us up from the nightmare that began in #1: nothing is resolved, cleared up or answered, the “plot” progresses only in the very loosest definition on the term, and if anything the series has gotten weirder, darker, and more confusing with each issue. Some may feel intellectually challenged by it and reject it, some may let it wash over them and enjoy that madness of it all, and some may be inspired to search for meaning, to dig deep and organize the chaos. I’m somewhere in between the 2nd and 3rd camp, this is the kind of book I am daring you to read.
WRITTEN BY: Ray Fawkes
ART BY: Ray Fawkes
PUBLISHER: Image
PRICE: $3.50
RELEASE: January 21, 2015
Reviewed By Eric Switzer
It is difficult to even recap what we’ve learned from this issue. Jason/Allison and Kid (who is Allison’s brother somehow, I thought Kid was a new person growing out of a guy in a coma) escape Lucky down a ladder into the sewers. Architecture and geography seem to be getting topsy turvy as well as buildings and spaces seem to change and collapse into each other. Kid shoots a humanoid in the sewer who refers to them as “candidates” and seemed to be pleasuring itself. Kid has had just about enough of all this nonsense and is ready to take the Big Sleep. We see glimpses of a new person: a seemingly beautiful woman who may or may not be the source of those cryptic messages are heros are hearing.
We definitely aren’t any closer to figuring out what is going on in this world, and we may never find out. This book is kind of astonishing in that it can be utterly nonsensical the images can be basically undecipherable and yet I am transfixed and in a way mesmerized. This book makes me think a lot about story telling; about german montage theory and in turn Dialectics and Semiotics. What Fawkes is saying, how he is saying it, and how I am interpreting that message has got me all giddy over linguistics and narratives and the ontology of comics as a medium of expression. “Intersect” inspires me to think about communication in a complicated way, what better compliment could you give some one’s work?
It may not be Fawkes’ intention to inspire these kinds of discussions. Perhaps he is the kind of person that gets off on confusing people, knowing that he is leading us down a pass and only he knows the way. Maybe the conversation he is trying to inspire is on an entirely other topic altogether and his message is thus far lost on me. No matter what, I think the sheer uncertainty of it speaks to the beauty of what Fawkes is doing with “Intersect”. I hope that this series leads you somewhere just as thought provoking as it did for me.
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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.
IDW Dark and Paramount recently joined forces to launch limited comic book tales set in the worlds of Smile and A Quiet Place, and we’ve learned today that they’ll continue hanging around in those franchise universes with two brand new limited series tales.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively revealed this afternoon that IDW Dark’s Any Given Smile debuts in September, while A Quiet Place: Rising Tides arrives in November.
First up, from writer Stephanie Williams and artist Pablo Collar, Any Given Smile puts a football-themed twist on Parker Finn’s successful Smile movie franchise.
The five-part limited series is “set in January 1995, during the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The rising superstar of the Sharks, backup quarterback Dupree, is feeling the pressure from his teammates, the fans, and also the city’s gambling underworld, to whom he owes a considerable debt. Meanwhile, a sports journalist investigates a string of suicides that may be connected to the big game. At the very least, they are connected to a sinister entity that preys on the minds of its victims.”
From writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow, A Quiet Place: Rising Tides will also be a five-issue limited story. The comic book tale “brings the creatures to the Florida Keys, where a father-daughter duo attempt to survive on water in a houseboat.”
EW further details, “This tense family reunion coincides with the arrival of the vicious creatures that hunt through sound. Grace and her dad find safety on the open ocean, but she’ll have to make landfall sooner or later; the father’s oxygen tank and their supplies are running low, while a hurricane swiftly approaches.”
Learn more about both comic books over on Entertainment Weekly.
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