ABATTOIR #3 (OF 6)
RADICAL PUBLISHING
CREATOR: Darren Lynn Bousman
CONCEPT: Michael PetersonWRITERS: Rob Levin and Troy Peteri
ARTISTS: Bing Cansino, Rodell Noora, and Dennis Calero
COLORS: Andrei Pervukhin
LETTERS: Troy Peteri
COVER: Tae Young Choi
28pp, Color, $3.50 U.S.
Writer/director Darren Lynn Bousman directed Saw II, Saw III, and Saw IV, among other movies. He enters the world of comic books with Abattoir, a horror comic book miniseries from Radical Publishing.
Abattoir is set in the late 1980s and takes place in a Middle America of hidden darkness and brutal murder. The story follows real estate agent Richard Ashwalt, who was struggling to sell the Mitchell house, where a brutal massacre took place. Then, a very strange old man, Jebediah Crone, shows up, wanting to buy the house even before Richard finishes cleaning it. Richard resisted the old man’s attempts, but Crone got the house anyway.
In Abattoir #3, Richard comes to see Crone as the source of all his problems, including being the lead suspect in a murder investigation. He continues his own investigation of Crone, which leads him to Newt Washington, an elderly reclusive man who once dealt with Crone. Meanwhile, the police continue to track Richard.
Although Crone only appears in flashbacks this issue, his presence hangs over the ghoulish proceedings. Gothic and macabre, Abattoir is also something of a mystery tale – a whodunit that travels along the border of the fantastique. The best thing about this is that it always leaves you wanting more.
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