David Lapham teams up with killer artist Gabriel Andrade for a tale of debauchery that involves rather hairy circumstances!
David Lapham (Stray Bullets, Crossed 3D, Crossed Badlands #10-14) teams up with killer artist Gabriel Andrade for a tale of debauchery that involves rather hairy circumstances; David Laphamthat of a werewolf nature. These two pair up for David Lapham’s creator-owned series Ferals which is sure to knock the socks off any true horror fan.
Let me start by saying I’m a big fan of Avatar Press and I highly recommend their books to anyone. I’m on a crusade with @InterComics to promote the shit out of Avatar’s books because they’re amazing transgressive comic fiction that shouldn’t be ignored.
Meet Dale Chestnutt, a boozer, a cop and an all round good-looking guy with an appetite for the ladies!
Ferals takes place in remote Minnesota towns and the narrative centers around a hard-drinking cop who usually thinks with his small head and sorts out the details later. Dale Chestnutt is everything you could hope for in an anti-hero extraordinaire: he’s a boozer, a cop, good-looking and he’s usually looking to get frisky with whatever female happens to sit on his lap.
The series begins in issue #1 with an introduction to Dale, followed by the murder of his friend and fellow police officer by a wretched werewolf creature that has ties to the mysterious babe that Dale meets near the end of issue #1, Gerda Ingebritsen. For fans who like babes drawn with utter precision and in scarily-good detail; Gabriel Andrade doesn’t disappoint. Since I started reading this series, I’ve had this question in the back of my head: who draws better boobs? Gabriel Andrade or Darrick Robertson? I really can’t come to a conclusion as to who can draw ta-ta’s better, but you should be the judge and grab a copy of Ferals today!
Who draws better boobs? Gabriel Andrade or Darrick Robertson, you be the judge!
There are a few things I would like to point out to readers as to why this series is so damn good you need to go buy it. First: David Lapham writing noir-horror… the story is creepy but funny and has a very pulp/noir vibe to it that will just suck you right in. Two: The violence… This series gets brutal pretty fast just like Avatar’s Crossed series. If you like blood and guts and dismembered people and all sorts of crazy, sick, twisted shit you don’t even want to fathom: you’ll get scared pretty damn good by Ferals. There’s a few instances of mutilated genitals in compromising positions throughout the first story arc of this wonderful series, so it is NOT RECOMMENDED FOR CHILDREN. Three: SETTING! As I read more and more Lapham, I realize how much of a master he is with setting. The remote and secluded small towns that Ferals takes place in contribute to the eeiry mood set in the story.
I’d also recommend this series to anyone who is a fan of HBO’s True Blood, particularly fans of the werewolf character Alseid. For fan’s of HBO in general; please read Avatar titles. I’ve been looking for the HBO of comics for some time and I most certainly stumbled across it when I started picking up Avatar titles recently. Vertigo and Image have great series geared towards adult readers, but Avatar achieves what Marvel’s Max brand hope to: to push comics to the max and create comics for the adult reader with content not appropriate for children. I’m not saying anything against Max or Vertigo or Image, I love them! I am saying that Avatar competes quite well with them and I often find myself digging into my Avatar titles first when I get home from the comic shop.
The werewolf clan depicted in Lapham's Ferals holds many secrets and a few are slowly being leaked into the fabric of the story.
The werewolf clan depicted in Lapham’s Ferals holds many secrets and a few are slowly being leaked into the fabric of the story and becoming bigger storylines as the series unfolds. They are a highly interesting group of people who come to play a big role in Dale’s motivations in the latter issues of the first arc. Currently, Ferals #6 is on shelves while we eagerly await the unveiling of the next story arc which begins with #7 in this great Werewolf-cum-Crime series.
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Posted on July 29th, 2012
Category: 50 SHADES OF BLOOD AND VISCERA, REVIEWS
Tags: 50 Shades Of Blood and Viscera, Avatar Comics, Avatar Press, Comic Reviews, comics, Crossed, David Lapham, Ferals, Ferals #1 - #6 review, Ferals review, Gabriel Andrade, James M. Clark, Werewolves