Psychokiller Ep. 3
Doctor Morbus’ analysis that a symzoetic relationship has been struck between Liquid Lenny and Lenny the Fink is not some comic strip gibberish.
EPISODE THREE Pages 17-24
I love the manifestation of Liquid Lenny. Imagine that sequence with a horror film music soundtrack.
Despite its excellence, in comics I’m increasingly thinking we should have speech or text rather than no dialogue horror. This is because we don’t have that horror music soundtrack. So we have to actually try harder and work harder than a horror screenwriter who has all that eerie music to aid them. Each media has its own demands and audio plays are even tougher than comics. For instance, in film or comics you can have no dialogue for security guards running down corridors. In an audio play, you can’t. They have to be characterised. Yet they are small bit part characters who have to say something memorable to register on the listener’s ear. I know from writing Doctor Who audio plays that can be quite a challenge.
Doctor Morbus’ analysis that a symzoetic relationship has been struck between Liquid Lenny and Lenny the Fink is not some comic strip gibberish but an accurate, even clinical, assessment of what has happened. It’s how Lenny has been brought to life again. And it’s the power of negative emotions that has allowed this to happen. In the occult, it’s emotions that can cross time and space.
The contrast between the 60s era of peace and love and the harsh 50s is superbly done by Dave. Especially the scene where Lily the Fink – as cool as a Blues Brother and as evil as an agent from the Matrix – and Mary Anne dance together.
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Next week: ‘The very stuff of life’