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
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