Dial & Other Stories TP

Description

The return of Chris Reynolds, whose Mauretania Comics of the 1980s are reappraised at length by Seth (Palookaville) in The Comics Journal #264. In 'The Dial' Reg returns from the space war to find his childhood home abandoned and the entire landscape being quarried away. Where are his parents and why does the old house decay so quickly? In 'The Black Hills' Monitor seems to have forgotten his dreams of mystery and settled for making money and, in 'The Golden Age', young Robert's dream of marrying his headmistress turns to nightmare when they meet Cwiss, a dreadful incubus with other plans. Reynolds' work recalls the poetics of film-makers Tarkovsky and Franju with the narrative directness and graphic immediacy of medieval woodblack prints.