The object here appears to have been to update the EC Comics formula to the splatterpunk era, with old-timey monsters and madness spiced with very nineties-centric nudity and gore (the “Mature Readers” notice on the cover isn’t there for decoration). As with the previous tale, this one is graced with a twist ending I promise you won’t see coming. Rounding things out is “Company,” scripted by Skipp and Spector, which features a thoroughly demented family into whose house a most unfortunate young woman enters. It’s followed by “The Word Made Flesh,” penned by Spector about a lizard-like creature birthed from a nasty tumor in a man’s stomach, this tale is notable for an outrageous final page gag. The first story is the Skipp scripted “A Quickie,” involving a man, a woman and a gaggle of gruesome-and apparently supernatural-sea spiders. MALFORMED, Skipp & Spector’s only foray into comic book scripting, is a 34-page compilation of three stories, illustrated by Robert DeMatteo. By JOHN SKIPP, CRAIG SPECTOR, ROBERT DEMATTEO (Black Eyed Books 1992)Īn intriguing flashback to the indie comic scene of the 1990s, courtesy of the decade’s premiere splatterpunk duo John Skipp and Craig Spector (of splat-happy novels like THE LIGHT AT THE END, THE SCREAM and THE BRIDGE).
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