Quick Sips - The Dark #36

The Dark Magazine gets, well, really fucking dark for its May original releases. Examining death and horror as ideas, as characters, and as modes of telling stories, the pieces look at situations made possible because of cruelty and pain. In both, powerful characters play with their victims, trying to learn from them, to perhaps hone their craft through their victims. And yet there is a sense that what might be happening is just more of the same, different in setting and style but still, at its core, the same as ever. Still, sadly, very human. And it’s a fascinating and difficult issue that I’ll just get to reviewing!

Art by Abigail Larson