David Lapham take reigns as the writer of Crossed: Badlands with issue #10.
Following the six issue “Homo Superior” 6 issue arc by Jamie Delano, David Lapham take reigns as the writer of Crossed: Badlands with issue #10. Returning from his previous run on Badlands, artist Jacen Burrows gets back at things with some disgustingly good depictions of the carnival of horrors David Lapham has in sore for his 4 issue “Yellow Belly” arc.
Just take a look at the regular cover: a perverted POV angle from the inside of a dark recess of the carnival that Lapham’s brought to town in “Yellow Belly”.
"Yellow Belly" introduces us to an interesting character named Edmund a.ka. 'Yellow Belly'
“Yellow Belly” introduces us to an interesting character named Edmund a.ka. ‘Yellow Belly’, not only because of his cowardly nature (see Burrow’s panels from the barrel scene; GLORIOUS!) but also because he peed his pants in the sixth grade. Edmund or ‘Yellow Belly’ is a loner high school kid close to graduation.
Lapham’s got a bit of a sense of humour with his intertextuality if I’m playing my cards right. We’re introduced to a ‘tough as nails’ football player named Joe Rigg (the UFC Fighter?), Katie Weiner (Gretchen Weiner? Lacy Chabert’s character in Mean Girls?) and Betty Ford.
Meet Katie Weiner AKA (Gretchen Weiner? Lacy Chabert's character in Mean Girls?)
Edmund’s parents come through and pay for the car insurance as a gift and he decides to head to the local county fair, full of “Freaks, Geeks, And Other Oddities”. Burrow’s art of the weird and unusual and the midway lights in all their splendor is breathtaking, fun and enjoyable. Things quickly turn from glitz and glamour to the grey and the grim after a brief stint by a vicious Freak Geek.
When the Geek – who is really just a hoax – discusses his job with his boss and the possibility of losing his job, he’s suprised to see one of the Crossed has come to replace him! Edmund and his family must run to safety, but who will make the cut? Edmund seems a bit too weak for the world of the Crossed so we will just have to see if he has the guts to survive 4 issues of brutality under the pen of Lapham.
Edmund seems a bit too weak for the world of the Crossed so we will just have to see if he has the guts to survive.
This issue is an awesome precursor to Lapham’s contribution to the series and the setting is fantastic! Stop by your local comic shop today and pick up your issue of Crossed Badlands #10!
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Posted on July 29th, 2012
Category: 50 SHADES OF BLOOD AND VISCERA, REVIEWS
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