Jamie Delano's Hellblazer: Hunger

[alicemacher]

[In Hellblazer] I was always just writing whatever my characters told me to. They all existed in an (enhanced) reality that I shared and responded to it with a tip of the hat to genre. Being a bit of a squeamish sort, horror has never been my first love. I slipped into writing it largely through the opportunity presented by Hellblazer and discovered its allegorical potential. I exploited the genre to dramatise the aspects of human existence that disturbed me.

-- Jamie Delano, Interview with Tabatha Wood, April 10, 2020

Warning for body shaming, child abuse and gore. Also, discretion is advised for those with a history of eating disorder.

( 'Terror explodes into a sudden agony of blackness as he TAKES MY EYE.' )

The Picture of Everything Else follows from The Picture of Dorian Gray.

[thanekos]

The shift in the derivation's title was part of the thought process behind the series: " We’ll often see Dorian crop up in other mediums — the immortal, beautiful young decadent with his picture hidden in the attic. But what of the man who made the painting? There was a man who made art which rendered its subject immortal. "

The Picture of Everything Else #1 led up to that man in Paris - friends Alphonse and Marcel, at a function they hadn't been invited to, heard about " the Englishman " who painted beautiful portraits and lived alone with them.

They fled the function after Alphonse's thievery from its host was caught out.

That night, Marcel was working alone on his art when someone he'd met at the party - a man who'd modeled for the Englishman - called at his and Alphonse's door.

That man, Louis, had come to see some of Marcel's work that he'd discussed in conversation.

Viewing it, he had honest praise.

( Of the absent Alphonse, he had a question. )

If the Characters in "Peanuts" Aged Like Ordinary People

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Future State: SHAZAM! #1

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