Review: Parched Earth Chronicles #2




In Oliver Francisco's second volume of the Parched Earth Chronicles anthology we have four stories; the conclusion of Missing - in which a detective investigates the disappearance of a man seeking immortality - and the conclusion of The Runner (art by Eric Guzman Pingol) in which an athlete receives a performance-enhancing drug from a mysterious benefactor.

We also have two new stories: Man of Science (art by Mark Mijares) in which a boy genius creates an intelligent robot to scour the wasteland beyond for resources for his dying city, and Porter in which a man is infested by a strange parasite from the nightmare landscape of the post-apocalyptic wilderness.

Once again we are plunged into Francisco's dark nightmare world in which horrors lurk in every shadow and the veil of reality is savagely torn asunder. The miracles of technology are like magical weapons wielded against the monsters here, but science can be a double-edged sword in the hands of the unwary. The equally arcane practices of experimental machines and drugs hold their own hidden dangers. Do our heroes run the risk of the cure being worse than the disease?

On the outskirts of a radioactive hell, stalked by toxic predatory fiends from the delirium of the insane, any possibility of survival seems hopelessly remote. The artists render these stories with flair: Francisco with rough-hewn Goya-like grotesque apparitions and Pingol and Mijares with contrasting manga-esque polish.

Our unready heroes set their feet upon a path that leads into the deepest shadows, armed with uncertain courage and hope... will they live to see the light of dawn?  Or does the ravenous outer darkness mark a point of no return?

 

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