Review: Red Mother Vol. 1 SC

What sets Red Mother apart from most horror stories is how it handles the friends and families of the victims. While most horror stories focus on the suffering of characters or the events which lead to pain and death, most do not devote much time to the emotional wreckage left behind. And if they deal with this lack of crucial knowledge, it is usually only in order that the full revelation of the loved one“s fate will carry more weight.

Red Mother, written by Jeremy Hain, opens on a young couple, Luke and Daisy walking the streets of a serene urban neighborhood when suddenly Daisy must watch as Luke pulled down and ripped to pieces by some unknown force. She tried to get away but she ended up hospitalized herself.

What follows for Daisy is not only rehabilitation on her body,but her mind, to cope with the nightmares, hallucinations, eerie encounters. Interestingly her therapist suggests is that what Lucy is experiencing may be a psychological response to her need to say goodbye without having any real answers.

Red Mother is an example, of quiet horror. This is an idea that in horror literature that it relies on moods, ideas, and implication, all difficult to catch on first reading. Red Mother does an incredible job of communicating the spiritual unease in which Luke“s family has been left, more bittersweet than terrifying.

Though there are a few moments of violence, these are quick and oblique. Rather than depend on extended torture sequences and explicit gore, Red Mother relies on flashes of the bizarre and a carefully enunciated mood.

RED MOTHER #1 was hot out the gate, especially that Peach Momoko Virgin Variant limited to a 250 print run. Speculators have been all over this title in the belief that it is only a matter of time until a Netflix development deal is announced. ”“ will they go even higher than this Peach Momoko variant?

5 stars out of 5.

Author: Jeremy Haun
Illustrator: Danny Luckett
Lettered by ED DUKESHIRE
Publisher: Boom Studios