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The Sickness, Volume 1

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by Dr. Javier A Suarez The Sickness is disgusting and scary. A trite observation based on the cover, but one that extends into the themes of the work beyond its initial oozing hook. The book shoves you face-first into a vile swamp of squelching entrails and dripping orifices. However, the spectacularly grotesque art from Jenna Cha barely scratches the epidermis of this deep flesh wound that gets worse the more you peel it apart. The book is not scary because it has unnerving imagery, but because of what those images represent. There are motifs of uniquely American war-time anxieties, and… Read More

John Carpenter Presents George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park

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by Annemarie Jutel   “John Carpenter Presents George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park” is an adaptation of a 1973 George A. Romero film by the same name.  Romero is perhaps best known for his horror films and the Night of the Living Dead series, but also produced a number of documentary television series. The film upon which the graphic book is based is “The Amusement Park,” commissioned by the Lutheran Society and directed by Romero.  The film was a social commentary, highlighting the plight of senior citizen, and their social devaluation.  Under supported, marginalised, impoverished and mocked, the film came… Read More