Abstract Studio
Terry Moore, writer and artist
When last we saw Rachel, she along with her aunt, Johnny, and her friend, Jet, were in a car accident. Of course, being already dead, Rachel seems to have escaped the accident unscathed. Johnny is in the hospital with some pretty severe, extensive injuries. And Jet was killed.
Her neck was snapped.
Except that, like Rachel, Jet isn't exactly dead, either.
Also in the car at the time of the accident was a little girl named Zoe. Rachel and the rest were trying to help Zoe despite not really knowing her. Zoe, I'm guessing somewhere around 10 or so, lost her entire family recently. We're not sure if she watched them die at the hands of a blonde woman or if the blonde woman caused Zoe to kill them herself, but they are all dead. Zoe ended up in the foster care system where she was threatened by an abusive would-be foster parent. Once again, the blonde woman showed up, and this time there was little doubt that the blonde woman eliminated the threat.
Zoe also escaped the car accident unharmed and has run away, but death seems to be continuing to follow her.
While Rachel tries to help Jet come to terms with what has happened to her, Zoe ends up in a farm house. The elderly couple who lived there are dead and Zoe is making herself a peanut butter sandwich when the blonde woman shows up again. We finally learn the name of the blonde woman, Lilith, Adam's first wife and often depicted as a demon or the first witch. Lilith explains to Zoe that she in fact is NOT a little girl but a demon named Malus and that death has followed in her wake for more than 400 years.
Along the way, we learn some very unpleasant things about the past of the town of Manson. And we also get quite a few more unanswered questions to replace the few that are answered by these issues.
Not at all sure where Moore is going with all of this, but I'm enjoying being a little creeped out by the journey.
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