Awake enough to learn about the new issue of Slumber? It’s issue 2, and it’s from Image Comics. I’ll put the coffee on, and we’ll have a caffeinated sprint through this spirited horror title.
Stetson hunts nightmares. She’s a dream detective. Not the 1979 Cheap Trick song Dream Police, but hey, how the memories collide. Anyway, how’s yer coffee? Good enough? Well, wide awake writer Tyler Burton Smith puts together the sleepy and the undead, to combine the worlds. It’s a crossover nightmare, with a serial killer that marches to their own downbeat.
Vanessa Cardinali illustrates, Simon Robins colours, and Steve Wands letters. It’s an amazingly vivid traipse through doorways of perception. The shapes are exaggerated, the colours are exaggerated, and I’m not making this up! The visual imagination on display here is wonderful, if creepy, if overwrought in an Alice Goes Madly into The Nightmare Wonderland By Taking The Elm Street Exit kind of way. Oh, am I talking too fast, too loud?
If you are a horror fan, you will love seeing the boundaries being snuffed out, the walls with eyes, the many toaded-creatures of hell pouncing around. This is certainly for you. A detective story, braced with adrenaline and caffeine, topped off with a dob of cream of the crop.
Highly recommended. Great concept and nicely disturbing, in a good-to-read-hyphened-way. Great cover by Nathan Fox!
Image Comics, Slumber #2, $3.99 for 24 pages, Mature
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