Holy shit was the thing that came to mind for me after this issue, too. Wow.
What... a fucking weird comic, wonderful. That is some Old Testament shit. Way to recognize and bubble up Mahnke's circus freak aesthetic leanings to make them run wild, nice to see his work so gorgeously ugly without Tom Nguyen's inks.
I think Morrison's trying to make use of weird Clowes influence here, but it's all filtered through burnt hair and pork gristle, reads much differently than All Things George. More great teen development metaphors gone wrong. That horrible prom floor orgy of maggotflesh and fantasy butterflies reminds me of the kids squatting in a circle in Flex Mentallo.
I adore the weird teenage hijinks comic ideas meshing with these horrible Beyond EC scenes, gloriously exemplified by Uglyhead reading Frankenstein's cutesy thought-bubble as this really pissed off skull, and then... man, child murder. Wow.
Oh, and in this week's edition of Seven Soldiers misprint theatre, the panels with the captions noting the year on the fourth page are screwed up. The panel saying 1955 should be on the panel AFTER the one it's printed above. At first I thought they were intimating that Melmoth and Frankenstein were doing this over and over, but the sequencing made sense of itself as simply showing that a town and school were built on the site of that wonderful head-spinning train wreck.
Fuck, *I* wanna be Girl Frankenstein. |
