Things are getting more and more weird in the state Pen. With the arrival of Cutter, a serial killer covered in scars, we seem to be getting an opposite number to Ethan's psychic force, one that revolves around evil rather than good. And Ethan is, for all his 16 year old angst and attitude, a good person. Most bullied kids actually are, though the reaction to the bullying can often set them on a path toward repeating their abuse.
Ethan's psychic emanation reacts very poorly to Cutter's presence, and as Fruitcake Mullins suggests, it is because Cutter actually is evil. He puts forth that most of the inmates don't fall into that classification, in that they're cruel and mean, perhaps, but ultimately still possess some level of humanity within them. Mullins does not think the same of Cutter, and Ethan's reaction to him seems to bear this out. Which makes the final few pages of this comic much more disturbing, as Cutter performs what we could almost read as an initiation ceremony on Cindy, bringing her and another inmate, Hardin, into his orbit. Some of the language that Cutter uses hearkens back to ritual magic and practice - I feel like he might have linked somehow to Ethan's ancient lineage, had the series continued.
And who knows? Maybe he still will, but it'll have to happen over the course of the next 4 issues.
More to follow.
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