Review: Parched Earth Chronicles #3

December 28, 2022

The nightmares continue unabated in the third installment of writer/artist Oliver Francisco's Parched Earth Chronicles anthology series. Human survivors of a world-ravaging apocalypse are pitted against horrific mutations indistinguishable from hell-spawned demons.

Stranger brings together the threads from two previous stories as wannabe journeyman Henry and his grandfather hunt down a creature that used to be human until a quest for immortality led to a hideous transformation...

Porter part two follows the body horror tale of a man infested with a spectacularly bizarre and destructive parasite...

The Mountain (script and art by Jorge) is the story of a man who has also been altered by the wasteland, but who uses his new abilities like a superhero.

Adventures of Corben and Ezquerra is the story of a fishing expedition, but the catch of the day is something that will take more than a flick of the wrist to reel in...

Intruder (art by Mauro Vargas) is a dog's eye view of a battle of the Titans, in a twist on the age-old 'my god's bigger than your god' conundrum...

Man of Science part two (art by Mark Mijares) brings us back to scientific prodigy Critchlow, whose creation has become an unstoppable engine of slaughter. Like Frankenstein before him, can our young hero vanquish his errant monster?

Once more into the stark black shadows of the monochrome anthology, the monsters surface again and again into the light, rending flesh and shattering nerves.