Review: Wall Breakers



by Jorge Zevallos


New York... today? Tomorrow? A surveillance drone floats above the city. A news commentator advises people to take care due to the extreme heat. Folks go about their business, glued to their gadgets, absorbed in their own concerns...

An average joe studies a strange piece of cloth given to him by a stranger. He has pinned it to his wall and notices an intricate design stitched into it: some kind of creature with many tentacles...

The cloth begins to move...

Writer/artist Jorge Zevallos' Wall Breakers (published by 
SnowyWorksis a short, explosive offering in which the (mostly) familiar world is invaded by terrifying things from another realm. Presented in the action/horror movie style, this is for mature readers and will appeal to you particularly if you are a fan of 80s sci-fi schlockers. If you like the films of director John Carpenter you will especially like the horror-with-a-sci-fi-edge theme here. I'm also reminded of some of the less well known works of Stephen King; stories like The Mist in which ordinary people in the everyday world we know are suddenly confronted by the arrival of a shocking alternate reality; and more recently the Cloverfield trilogy.

There is no exposition or introspection here, it leaps into action almost immediately as our hero battles nightmares he cannot understand. His frantic race for survival takes in a variety of cross-sections of New Yorkers as he bulldozes through their little slices of the day, with something much worse snapping at his heels.

The story is told over 24 black and white pages, the line art crisp and well crafted. It's a snappy, smooth caffeine-hit of a comic, well worth a look and I hope we see more from this talented creator soon.

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