Review: The Body




Econo Motel, Middle of Nowhere, Arkansas, 12:51 am. Mac's phone goes off. He and Becksly get a call. Time to go to work...

The job? A body to be disposed of. It's in the trunk of the car. Just a couple of complications: It's not human. Also, it's not dead yet.

No problem for bald musclehead Mac and his young partner. Just find a place off the road and start digging... but then a guy in a pick-up truck arrives. A guy with bright green eyes...

The Body by writer Billy Diamond Jr and artist Jay Red is a short, punchy one-off sci-fi thriller, 28 colour pages of pulp-noir (think Quentin Tarantio having a stab at X- Files). It seems that we are not alone in the universe, and our cosmic neighbours are a little on the ugly side.. In more ways than one.

There is not much in the way of backstory here, it's straight into the action with guns blazing. Red's style is free, loose and atmospheric, as a floating sense of dread gives way to sheer nightmare. 

Have Mac and Becksly taken on more than they can handle? It is not clear how the good guys can win this one.... Or if there are any good guys in this savage tale... 

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