Description: When a crack in the border between worlds releases an army of monsters from Mexican folklore, the residents of Devil’s Fork, AZ, blame the ensuing weirdness – the shared nightmares, the otherworldly radio transmissions, the mysterious goat mutilations – on « God-dang illegals. » With racial tensions supernaturally charged, it’s up to new kid in town Frank Dominguez and a motley crew of high school misfits to discover what’s really going on in this town torn between worlds.
Description: After barely surviving a supernatural showdown at Jack in the Box, the kids regroup over nachos to debate what to do when your town is overrun by monsters of myth. Frank’s freaked and wants to go to the cops! Julietta can’t because her family’s undocumented. Aimi wants to know the secrets of the underworld! And Quinteh might just be hungry. Meanwhile, El Chupacabra crosses the border between worlds, bringing with him an unspeakably terrifying force to Devil’s Fork.
Le pitch, alliant fantastique et discours politique, pourrait être pas mal. À voir. Je ne suis pas trop fan de ce dessin lorgnant vers Chris Burnham et Ian Bertram, mais faut voir.
Du temps de la guerre, les fascistes américains menaçaient Simon et Kirby de mort. Et la mairie de New York ainsi que les Fédéraux se sont mis sur l’enquête, ont assuré la protection des auteurs et procédé à des arrestations.
Les temps ont changé.
The crazy old lady known only as La Curandera tells a tale that begins 500 years ago in the Aztec Empire at the peak of its strength and ends in her dirty little Arizona gift shop with four kids and a wayward Chupacabra, all of whom are meant to save the world from an ancient evil. Alas, it’s a school night. But our heroes defy their destinies at tremendous cost when a new and yet very familiar foe is revealed.
Written by: Eric M. Esquivel
Art by: Ramon Villalobos, Tamra Bonvillain
Cover by: Ramon Villalobos
Après deux numéros, et s’il n’y a pas de quoi se réveiller la nuit, Border Town est un plaisant moment de lecture. Cela dit les choses sérieuses sont encore à venir si j’en crois la fin du #2. Du moins celles liées au fantastique (même si on en a eu un petit avant-goût).
S’agissant des frictions entre habitants de Devil’s Fork, Esquivel et Villalobos ont planté le décors, à coup d’uppercuts et de 9 mm.
Description: Racist high school bully Blake has become that which he hates the most: a figure of Mexican legend! Transformed into a walking, talking D a de los Muertos skeleton, Blake’s possessed by the spirit of Santa Muerte herself, who compels the tortured young man to undertake a most dangerous mission: open the border between worlds-permanently.
Le dessinateur Ramon Villalobos et la coloriste Tamra Bonvillain ont décidé de quitter la série Border Town suite aux accusations de harcèlement sexuel lancées contre le scénariste Eric M. Esquivel par une de ses anciennes collaboratrices.
Tamra Bonvillain :
We were advised to let the attention remain on the parties involved, but it seems clear that Eric has no interest in acknowledging his actions, and I don’t feel comfortable waiting any longer.
It shames me to have spent so much time and energy working with someone who is capable of such actions, and I’m sorry if the delay in response caused some confusion about my feelings.
Et DC doit revoir encore une fois ses plans suite à cette affaire, car selon Bleeding Cool, Eric M. Esquivel devait reprendre Nightwing dans quelques mois…
