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[5 Skull Review] “Intersect” #6 Proves We Are Not Alone
“Intersect” #6 begins with the most recognizable image and coherent thought in the entire series as an incredible amount of blood runs out from under a destroyed car. Two men are trapped together deep inside the car, fusing to it. “I’ll be with you until it’s over” one of them says as he, the car, and the other man become one. Welcome back to “Intersect”
WRITTEN BY: Ray Fawkes
ART BY: Ray Fawkes
PUBLISHER: Image
PRICE: $3.50
RELEASE: April 22, 2015
I feel so close to cracking the code of “Intersect” that I worry everyone else has figured it out already and I’m the only one still confused. Our protagonist provide a narrative about one shooting the other during an eclipse that suggests once again that this is all happening as some kind of punishment in hell or otherwise. Once again there is a reference to dreaming, bringing to our attention the dream-like metaphoric quality of it all: familiar things take odd and unrecognizable shape and one’s fears and anxiety manifest themselves in fantastical ways.
Then we end on the first page of the first issue with one apparent difference: the kid replaces “cock” with “pussy” when asking if its still there. Are we shifting perspective/reality? Are we in an infinite loop that would suggest a punishment/hell explanation? Its both clearer and further from comprehension than ever before. Perhaps it is me that no longer makes sense.
Its this infectious quality that “Intersect” has that keeps me coming back all this time. I’m equally horrified and intrigued, confused and connected, blind and seeing in new ways. This book is pulling me apart and I’m the first to acknowledge how manipulated I am right now. I feel like I won’t be ok until I make sense of it. I wonder if that is how schizophrenics feel.
Lets start a discussion about this book; its warrants one as much as any book does. I want to know your theories about what is really happening, what Lucky, the Kid, and the Orgasm Monster represent. But more importantly, tell me how it makes you feel. Tell me why you keep coming back. Lets form an “Intersect” support group. My name is Eric, and I’m obsessed with “Intersect”. We can get through this together. We are not alone.
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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