Volume 1 no. 6 - “The Body and Blood”
Opening the series of ‘The Blasphemers’, a killer-rapist steers a car into a bush to hide it- its sole occupant the dead female driver.
Here we are introduced to a different kind of beast. One that we read about in the press all too often, and a great story ‘hook’ that didn’t last long enough for me. I’m not even sure why they bothered naming him...
After ditching the car, the murderer stumbles across a small girl playing near a pond, and he has the worst possible designs on her. A truly revolting character, a shame he took an early bow!
The little girl wants to play with him– He has a different kind of sick game in mind, until she turns into a tentacle-headed Lovecraft-styled ’Breed and instantly slaughters him! She is Tater, Nana Nickneven’s grand-daughter, and has been waiting for Cabal.
Boone appears- this time with Lori, which isn’t explained, as she hasn’t appeared to date and last time we saw him he was with Kinski. Of course, they’re out to find Nana Nickneven.
All the above happens in the first few pages, and is followed by various gratuitous and puerile scenes of semi-nudity extreme gore, violent deaths, and awful puns.
There is a shower scene with Boone and Lori, who makes a great reference to Psycho, “I was waiting for some guy named Norman, but you’ll have to do…” - at least the joke offers partial redemption to an otherwise unnecessary scene– we’ve already seen them make love in the prison after all.
By this issue, all of the subtlety and prose of the book had been lost , and I had to force myself to continue reading the series to the end, but I couldn’t help wonder who the intended audience was. I know comics have moved on a lot in recent years, but these seem so outdated in their style and format.
The ‘Breed are truly Monsters now; even Boone becomes Cabal in what is described as a pissing contest with Kinski!
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