Psychokiller Ep. 4
Liquid Lenny is easily as hideous as Judge Death in this sequence and it’s no surprise therefore that Dave is the artist on 2000AD’s long running Death World.
EPISODE FOUR Pages 25-32
I especially enjoyed the scene with the Death Goddess and the summoning of the dead using blood and milk – ‘the very stuff of life’. In a depressing comic world where elitist, patriarchal superheroes are regularly honoured as ‘Supergods’, it’s refreshing to reference the true source of magic: the Goddess.
I had begun the tradition in Sláine, notably in Sláine The King with art by Glenn Fabry and The Horned God with art by Simon Bisley. The Goddess’s sinister appearance here is as potent as the Celtic Goddess.
Liquid Lenny is easily as hideous as Judge Death in this sequence and it’s no surprise therefore that Dave is the artist on 2000AD’s long running Death World. With the passing of John Hicklenton, Dave is undoubtedly comic’s premier horror artist.
The name Doctor Morbus means Doctor Death. Its etymology is from Latin morbidus (“diseased”), from morbus (“sickness”), itself from the root of morī (“to die”) or directly from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to rub, pound, wear away”). It was that root we went for – Death.
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Next week: Boogie time!