To kick off the week we have a quick preview of new horror anthology Ruffian Meat from the direction of Aaron Losty whose work we have covered previously at Broken Frontier in comics like The Last Scarecrow and The Hanging. Ruffian Meat features six stories, five written by Losty and one by Gretchen Felker-Martin, with art by Michael Walsh, Sloane Hong, Marie Enger, Connor McCann, Artyom Trakhanov and long-time BF fave Sajan Rai. This looks like a cracking collection of work for fans of the genre from a top selection of indie talent.
Cover by Losty
Phantoms! Art (above) by Sajan Rai and story by Losty
A strange destitute world is ravaged by a mysterious smell bringing with it, a plague of death! Dr. Kree is summoned to nurse a child who may hold the answer to this calamity.
Earn Your Spot: art by Marie Enger, words by Losty
An oilpunk cosmic fantasy set in the sodden trenches of a war torn Irish countryside. This tale follows Un’fella who (along with his fellow trenchers) at 6pm daily, must climb from their dugouts to stand exposed and fire six shots blindly into the smoke and fog of the battlefield.
Birthday: art(above) by Connor McCann, Story by Losty
Inspired by Gary Busey’s monologue in “Surviving The Game” a boy’s father tasks him with raising a puppy. His father implements a cruel form of training while the boy grows closer to his pet. On his 14th birthday he is brought to the woods and forced to fight the dog in a pit.
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