Friday, September 20, 2024

The Vengeance Vat

Sekowsky and Celardo team up for a supernatural witcheroo featuring lots of terrific Tothy visuals, via the vicious January 1953 issue of The Unseen #8 from Pines.

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  1. "Vengeance Vat" is a good metal song name!

    It is very Toth-ish. It's clean (even the garbage dump looks clean!) and the colors are great. This is probably one of the best on-register color jobs I've seen in a while!

    This is another one that has a bit of a weird kind of justice to it; why the heck did Cathy get possessed and then killed? She didn't have anything to do with killing the witch, yet she gets the vengeance in a pretty awful way -- being taken over by the witch.

    In a lot of these horror tales, just knowing somebody that did a foul deed is enough to get you in serious trouble! I'd say have no friends and live in a shack at the end of a garbage dump but that doesn't seem to help either!

    I hope they don't let that hobo stew go to waste!

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  2. Most nonchalant guy at the end telling the officer about a body completely stripped of its flesh he found in a shed he lent out to some hobo. Love those images of Cathy slowly morphing into Myra--and the one blended together like some hellish half-and half. Yeah, I don't know why Cathy had to die either. She wasn't the one murdering anybody.

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  3. I love panels like the second one on page two. There's just something about a vengeful and raggedy old dump witch hurling venomous edited-for-prime-time-TV curses: "Dang you all the way to Hades, buddy!" You Tell 'em, Myra.

    The character work definitely has a Toth flair, and I really love all the marky little brush shapes Celardo uses to indicate things like junkyard dirt and clapboard grain and a scrap metal avalanche. It makes for a lot of interesting texture tucked here an there throughout the story. Page six is wonderful.

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