Review: Inner Trek
Chris Malgrain's Inner Trek is an anthology of three short stories, illustrated in Silver Age style black and white.
In The Swamp of Shadows newlyweds Mitch and Emma are on a honeymoon tour of the galaxy. Each planet they visit is more wonderful than the last. They are deeply in love and couldn't be happier... until their rocket takes them to a forest world filled with stunning natural beauty and a very disturbing hidden threat...
In Be Careful What You Wish For private eye John Jaspers is on a case, tailing the husband of a rich client who suspects him of infidelity. Travelling to the uninhabited planet Valia 7 in his space car, he struggles to keep his mind on the job. His work pays the bills but takes him away from his wife, whose image haunts him constantly. It is a distraction that could turn deadly...
In The Race a desert planet is the scene for a ritual contest. A nubile female emerges from the sand and climbs up onto a set of stone steps to a small platform. She cries out and a line of ten strapping males emerge a few hundred feet away. She cries out again and they swim through the sand towards her, an athletic metaphor for a certain biological event...
Writer/artist Malgrain has crafted a neat collection of stories with a distinct retro feel. The honeymooners wear fishbowl space helmets, Jaspers' space car is a 1950s Chevy without wheels and the sand racers bear more than a passing resemblance to the original Yondu from the 1970s Guardians of the Galaxy. Malgrain's linework is sharp and his characters smoothly defined. The psychedelic vibe is in full force, in keeping with the nostalgic theme.
In a classic science fiction style, the galaxy is presented here as a wild, new frontier, full of exotic delights and chilling horrors, where the only limits are those of the imagination. Here, the reader boldly goes on an odyssey into a universe of shimmering dreams... and mind-bending nightmares.
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In The Swamp of Shadows newlyweds Mitch and Emma are on a honeymoon tour of the galaxy. Each planet they visit is more wonderful than the last. They are deeply in love and couldn't be happier... until their rocket takes them to a forest world filled with stunning natural beauty and a very disturbing hidden threat...
In Be Careful What You Wish For private eye John Jaspers is on a case, tailing the husband of a rich client who suspects him of infidelity. Travelling to the uninhabited planet Valia 7 in his space car, he struggles to keep his mind on the job. His work pays the bills but takes him away from his wife, whose image haunts him constantly. It is a distraction that could turn deadly...
In The Race a desert planet is the scene for a ritual contest. A nubile female emerges from the sand and climbs up onto a set of stone steps to a small platform. She cries out and a line of ten strapping males emerge a few hundred feet away. She cries out again and they swim through the sand towards her, an athletic metaphor for a certain biological event...
Writer/artist Malgrain has crafted a neat collection of stories with a distinct retro feel. The honeymooners wear fishbowl space helmets, Jaspers' space car is a 1950s Chevy without wheels and the sand racers bear more than a passing resemblance to the original Yondu from the 1970s Guardians of the Galaxy. Malgrain's linework is sharp and his characters smoothly defined. The psychedelic vibe is in full force, in keeping with the nostalgic theme.
In a classic science fiction style, the galaxy is presented here as a wild, new frontier, full of exotic delights and chilling horrors, where the only limits are those of the imagination. Here, the reader boldly goes on an odyssey into a universe of shimmering dreams... and mind-bending nightmares.
INNER TREK on Indyplanet
Zak Webber
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