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It's been a while since I delved into the weirder sides of the collection, so I thought I'd break up my reading of various Awesome Comics titles with some blood and guts horror from London Night Studios.
This publisher is well known for its character Razor, created by London Night publisher/founder Everette Hartsoe. The comics are, by and large, violent and bloody, with full frontal shots of people exploding in showers of viscera. Oh, and most of the women are either scantily clad or just completely naked. Indeed, the main character of today's issue spends literally the entire comic nude. As does the only other female character in the comic. All the other male characters are completely clothed. This is a problem I have with comics of this ilk (they all, I think, grow out of the success that was Faust) - for some reason the women have to be sexy and/or naked, regardless of whether or not they are characters with agency or simply set dressing. Aside from titillation, not much is served by having Officer Maguire parade around in the nude all issue.
I'll admit to some curiosity about the setting - it's definitely a vampire story full of dismemberment and blood drinking, but it's also set on a different planet in a city that covers the entire surface of the globe. This moves it into the realm of science fiction-horror, but the costume that the main protagonist wears also looks somewhat like a superhero costume, and he appears to be doing "good," if such violence can be categorized as such. So a bit of a mishmash. London Night only published this one issue of the series, though it appears to be reprinting an earlier series from 1991 that ran 9 or so issues. If it pops up for cheap somewhere, I might give it a look.
More to follow.
Further Reading and Related Posts
The only other London Night piece I've written about is in a post on swimsuit issues.
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