Faust
What I bought – 9 January 2013
She said, “In every age, there must be truths people can’t fight – whether or not they want to, whether or not they will go on being truths in the future. We live in the truth of what Freud discovered. Whether or not we like it. However we’ve modified it. We aren’t really free to suppose – to imagine – he could possibly have been wrong about human nature. In particulars, surely – but not in the large plan –” (A. S. Byatt, from Possession)
What I bought – 31 October 2012
His father smiled thinly. “Perhaps not for a while. But in the end, someone always has to have his or her neck popped, as you so quaintly put it. The people demand it. Sooner or later, if there isn’t a turncoat, the people make one.” (Stephen King, from The Gunslinger)
Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 305: Faust: Love of the Damned #10 (totally and completely not safe for work – I’m really not kidding here, people!)
Every day this year, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. This month I will be showing pages that are either scary or are part of “scary” issues (as scary as a comic can be, of course), because it’s October! Today’s page is from Faust #10, which was published by Rebel Studios and is cover dated 1993. Enjoy! (And if you’re seeing this with the cut still intact, I want to warn you once again – this is really, really, REALLY not safe for work. Don’t say you weren’t warned!) (By way, this is SO not safe for work I’m not even showing it right after the cut in case some people can’t read all these warnings – I’ve put up some buffers before you get to the page in the form of puppy and kitten .gifs, stolen from here and here)
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