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North 40 by Aaron Williams and Fiona Staples
I love the premise of North 40: Two dopey high school kids, one a goth and one a geek, get a Lovecraftian tome of magic from the local library and call forth the minions of the deep ones to infect and ravage their small Texas town. The townspeople are tormented with freakish mutations and, a few, with superpowers. Then they start a' fightin.' At the same time, the racial and class politics of small Texas towns plays out across the city.
Our three main characters are a super-powered farmboy, a sassy teenage girl who becomes a sickle-wielding avatar for a nameless old crone, and a crusty old Sheriff just doin' his best, kind of like good version of the Sheriff from Volume 1 of Preacher. We don't get a lot of time for character development, what with the tentacled horrors, zombie plagues, and still-simmering feuds, but that's okay with me. It's a clever little horror comic, with just the right blend of humor, grotesquerie, and Cthulhu.
I love the premise of North 40: Two dopey high school kids, one a goth and one a geek, get a Lovecraftian tome of magic from the local library and call forth the minions of the deep ones to infect and ravage their small Texas town. The townspeople are tormented with freakish mutations and, a few, with superpowers. Then they start a' fightin.' At the same time, the racial and class politics of small Texas towns plays out across the city.
Our three main characters are a super-powered farmboy, a sassy teenage girl who becomes a sickle-wielding avatar for a nameless old crone, and a crusty old Sheriff just doin' his best, kind of like good version of the Sheriff from Volume 1 of Preacher. We don't get a lot of time for character development, what with the tentacled horrors, zombie plagues, and still-simmering feuds, but that's okay with me. It's a clever little horror comic, with just the right blend of humor, grotesquerie, and Cthulhu.