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[Link] Punish The Dead [Date] 10/14/04 [Comments] 
I met the author of this comic at SPX this year, and had the honor of telling him, "Your comic terrifies me". Sorry, I know, it's another Modern Tales comic; I'm not sure if you can get the gist now that the story has been going for a while, but here's a short summary. The comic alternates between a boy in elementary or junior high school, enduring the humiliations and torments of childhood, and a wild-eyed psychotic adult, dragging a 50 gallon drum through the woods for some unknown horrific reason we are about to find out. Is he the boy grown up or someone else? Is he going to blow something up? Is he involved in the occult? Is he somehow going to travel back in time to his earlier self? I have to decide some days if I can handle reading the most recent installment, but if not I'll probably catch up with it the next day. Created with ink and watercolor to a beautiful, reminiscent effect, a swirl of memories and images which create a creepy chill that you might be afraid will reach deeper into your psyche that you would want. When I talked to the author about it, he said that at the current rate he expects the story to conclude in 2006. Now that's planning.
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