Scarred - Tim Seeley
Of all the horror sub-genres the one that seems the least likely to succeed as a comic book is also one of the ones that has been attempted the most often; the slasher. Tim Seeley is a man who finally got it right, by taking the emphasis off of the villains and placing it on their unlikely enemy, the final girl, in his horror comic series Hack/Slash. You would figure that this preoccupation with slasher fare would be reflected in what scared him, right?
The last thing that creeped me out was the H.P. Lovecraft story “The Whisperer in the Darkness.” The way he describes the method of communication between the creepy crab/fungoid aliens was both otherworldy weird, and oddly familair…the man is THE master for a reason. He could make bizarre, incomprehensible things eerily possible, and the skittering, flying crab thingies were no exceptions. It didn’t hurt that I read it while I was vacation in San Francisco, and had spent the day at Fisherman’s wharf, surrounded by the boiled bodies of those delicious water bugs.