The Man-Eaters creative team returns to Image Comics, with a new series entitled The Cursed.
Writer Chelsea Cain and artist Kate Niemczyk (Colours by Rachelle Rosenberg, letters by Joe Caramagna, additional art by Stella Greenvoss) have us joining Maude as she is being signed up for a week of summer camp. Her mom and her mom’s beau have decided to hustle Maude off so they can enjoy a romantic getaway in her absence.
The drama starts and intensifies as Maude arrives at camp. It’s a shabby place, shabbily organized, and the other girls all have something going on… allergies, lice, periods, hyperactivity, and so on. Then the weather starts getting rough, and the tiny transit rowboat is tossed.
It’s the experience of being tossed into a sudden calamity that brings people together, so perhaps this band of misfits in the midst of the misfit camp will find their collective level, discover their level-headed togetherness as the time goes on.
The drawings are good, the colour is superb, the dialogue is long winded and elaborate, but it all fits, it’s all expanding the language of comics, and has a fun, drama-expanded appeal.
In addition to setting the scene with Maude, the creators have provided extra reading content, including haiku, cut out actual size buttons to wear, and so on.
Image Comics, Man-Eaters: The Cursed #1, $3.99 for 23 pages of story plus extras.Teen +
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