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Issues 1-8 of 'Strange Embrace'

Image Comics, 2007-2008, 32 pages each

Written and Illustrated by David Hine

Colored by Rob Steen

There's no getting away from it, Strange Embrace is dark. Strange Embrace is very...strange. In fact it's just about as complex, compelling, and generally fucked-up as the Twentieth century which its protagonist – Anthony Corbeau – seems to represent.

In part psychological horror, in part an existentialist study of the classic "Outsider", this "graphic novel", unlike most of them, really does warrant the term 'novel'. It has the emotional, thematic and historic sweep of a novel, but manages to retain the immediacy and cerebral impact of the best comic.

The narrative is intricate, shifting sometimes breathlessly between place, time and character: we are led into the story by little Sukumar, a product of late twentieth century multi-cultural Britain, into the past, into the strange, and into horror. And it is at times real horror.

Prepare to be shocked.

Strange Embrace is dark.

And very strange.

- Peter Milligan