COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (3 February 2025)

I’m setting aside splash pages, for a bit. Instead, in February, these weekly reminders that comics can be awesome will be excerpts of sequences that have stuck in my mind.

Over the past years one of my ‘guilty’ pleasures has been W0rldtr33, a hysterically trashy horror series that, at one point, actually contained the line: ‘she’s been possessed by a malevolent force from the evil internet that lives beneath the internet.’ The comic has a logic-be-damned, quasi-punk satirical approach to horror, with a near-apocalyptic pitch and an in-yer-face attitude that feel well-suited to our near-apocalyptic and in-yer-face times – indeed, it’s not entirely unlike Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance. And yet, in the midst of all the gore, of the very silly sci-fi (where a world without internet seems unimaginably dystopic, even though it wasn’t all that long ago…), and of what I assume is some kind of allegory for the far-right radicalization of youth via social media, we got this sweet sequence of pre-arson bonding:

W0rldtr33 #2

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