Image Comics presents The Deviant #1, a Christmas-themed horror story to kick off the holiday season. Penned by acclaimed writer and Eisner Award winner James Tynion IV, illustration and colors by Joshua Hixson of Shanghai Red, and We Ride Titans, with letters by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. Self-confessedly “A Christmas Story,” The Deviant is slated to run for nine issues on a monthly release schedule, centering around a fifty-year-old closed murder case.The Deviant #1 opens in modern-day Chicago, as comic book writer Michael does Christmas shopping with his partner Derek, unable to place his own deep feeling of malaise. Fifty years previously, in Milwaukee, a corpse was found in a mall. The trail leads to a rural barn, where another set of victims are found, but the killer escapes. Back in the present day, Michael interviews the man charged with the murders, but elsewhere, back in Chicago, demons from the past resurface.From the outset, The Deviant #1 is fundamentally and inextricably a horror comic about being a gay man. It is totally unafraid to interrogate cultural and personal narratives surrounding homosexuality and the serial killer as a polymorphic figure of deviance and isolation, including first learning about queerness through the lens of nominally gay serial killers. The structure of the comic is excellent, panning from present to past and back again to build a textured world that feels broad and authentically inhabited by its characters. It also gradually builds its narrative with brilliantly circuitous pacing, allowing the story to slot into place in a way that feels earned and progressively ratchets up the tension, giving the blood-curdling climax of the conclusion incredible impact and limitless intrigue for the next issue.
Image Comics presents The Deviant #1, a Christmas-themed horror story to kick off the holiday season. Penned by acclaimed writer and Eisner Award winner James Tynion IV, illustration and colors by Joshua Hixson of Shanghai Red, and We Ride Titans, with letters by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. Self-confessedly “A Christmas Story,” The Deviant is slated to run for nine issues on a monthly release schedule, centering around a fifty-year-old closed murder case.
The Deviant #1 opens in modern-day Chicago, as comic book writer Michael does Christmas shopping with his partner Derek, unable to place his own deep feeling of malaise. Fifty years previously, in Milwaukee, a corpse was found in a mall. The trail leads to a rural barn, where another set of victims are found, but the killer escapes. Back in the present day, Michael interviews the man charged with the murders, but elsewhere, back in Chicago, demons from the past resurface.
From the outset, The Deviant #1 is fundamentally and inextricably a horror comic about being a gay man. It is totally unafraid to interrogate cultural and personal narratives surrounding homosexuality and the serial killer as a polymorphic figure of deviance and isolation, including first learning about queerness through the lens of nominally gay serial killers. The structure of the comic is excellent, panning from present to past and back again to build a textured world that feels broad and authentically inhabited by its characters. It also gradually builds its narrative with brilliantly circuitous pacing, allowing the story to slot into place in a way that feels earned and progressively ratchets up the tension, giving the blood-curdling climax of the conclusion incredible impact and limitless intrigue for the next issue.
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