A DARK INTERLUDE, Vault's FEARSCAPE sequel - HYPE

May 20, 2020 by Zack Quaintance in Get Hyped

By Zack Quaintance — It’s been a rough year, folks, both within comics and in the real world writ large (usually an unpleasant place to think about). The COVID-19 pandemic shut down new comics distribution, and, more concerning for growing publishers like Vault, it took away the industry’s ability to hand sell comic books and trade collections during the summer con season. It’s not great. We did, however, get some great news this week — the singular Vault Comics series Fearscape is getting a sequel (though, don’t call it that). Whatever it is, it’s called A Dark Interlude.

COMIC OF THE WEEK: Starship Down #1

March 23, 2020 by d. emerson eddy in Comic of the Week

By d. emerson eddy — In recent years, Andrea Mutti has been doing some very good science fiction and horror stories including Fearscape, Infinite Dark, and Port of Earth. Mutti's style reminds me a bit of Stuart Immonen and Chris Sprouse, with figures full of open, clean lines, but there's a darkness and scratchiness within that's all his own. It gives an ominous feel to his artwork that is perfect for the horror of the unknown that tends to lurk around the corner of these stories and he's proven equally adept at designing some exquisite beasties. All of that is what led me to pick up Starship Down #1, as I kind of went into this one blind.