A comiXologist recommends
Horror fans! If you haven’t read the debut of Cinema Purgatorio from comics legend and for real wizard Alan Moore and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen artist Kevin O’Neill what the heck are you waiting for?
This monthly anthology series features five serialized stories with creative teams including Garth Ennis and Raulo Caceres, Kieron Gillen and Ignacio Calero, Christos Gage and Gabriel Andrade, Max Brooks (World War Z) and Michael DiPascale and not to mention Moore and O’Neill. The stories feature wildly diverse art from EC Comics inspired anarchic black and white from Caceres, Calero, and Andrade to the spartan line of O’Neill. The stories are just as diverse with everything from giant monsters to an incredibly well-researched Civil War story from Max Brooks.
Everything about this books screams “not like mainstream” and it’s a rare treat to experience some master storytellers paired with incredible art that seems old-fashioned (in the most complimentary sense of the phrase) and at the same time refreshing. I would normally give you some semblance of plot summary but I spent a lot of words above on creator names and these stories are serialized and I don’t want to give anything away. There’s a story for everyone and it’s worth grabbing just to bask in the glow of this amazing art.
Josh Doyle-Elmer is comiXology’s email marketing specialist. After reading this on his bus trip home he ran to his car to avoid monsters, vampires and the like.
