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If you had to pick your favorite Poe story where a body (dead or alive) is maddeningly bricked, boarded, and nailed beyond a wall or floorboard, it would be pretty fucking hard. The dude just loooves hiding away dead bodies and haunting his narrators with the tinkering sounds that always manage to make there way back from beyond the dead. So what happens when you take a classic Poe-imagined, bricked-up tomb and basically give it a glory hole for the crazed murderer and his soon to be dead “friend”? You get the comic In Pace Requiescat. Based on Poe’s story The Cask of Amontillado, this short comic penned by writer Sean T. Collins and illustrated by Julia Gfrörer is a fun spin on the classic story. And by “fun” I mean dark. It’s definitely a weird and filthy chapter addition to the tale, and Gfrörer’s wiry and fluid illustration style is perfect for depicting such intimate (like, real intimate) insanity. If you like Edgar Allen Poe, blow jobs, and burying people alive for revenge but, like, kinda having second thoughts about it, you’ll dig this comic.
Hazel is a terrific writer and thinker and you should obviously listen to her.
