Scream, Dracula, Scream! There’s blood on these pages and yeah, it’s a bloody mess. But doggy paddle through the ooze and you’ll find something to float on in the pages of Scream of the Love Police, a messy but no-fuss comic from the fingers of Conall Pendergast and Leif Raiha. Scream is a bit tough to follow because the drawings are rather busy-a glut of words, robots, urban decay and surgical waste (I’m kinda iffy about that last one, but I think it’s in there). Pure black and whiteness, crisply drawn so the message isn’t blurred by the medium. I like that. There seem to be some deeply rooted messages about globalization and modern medicine, too. But I could be way off. Scream is the type of comic that demands the reader draw his or her own conclusions, only it’s too chaotic and oblique to let you draw anything approaching a straightforward conclusion. But who cares? Chances are, anyone reading this is already firmly planted to the left and is probably just the type who’d get a kick out of this. (Cameron Gordon) (Cameron Gordon)
comic, $4, Connal Pendergast and Leif Raiha, Conall Pendergast and Leif Raiha, 70 Major Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 2L1, [email protected]