Monday, November 17, 2014

Crossover Cover: Caveat Emptor

The mercenary Terror, whose body is composed of parts from various corpses that he has incorporated into himself, visits an occult expert named Rekrab whose collection includes a lacquered puzzle box. The puzzle box is a Lament Configuration from the Hellraiser film series, based on Clive Barker’s story “The Hellbound Heart.” “Rekrab” is Barker spelled backwards. Terror was originally known as Shreck, a character in Marvel’s Shadowline imprint, which took place in an alternate reality to the mainstream Marvel Universe. He later immigrated to the reality where most of Marvel’s heroes operate, encountering Wolverine and other heroes. It can be presumed that the Terror of the CU has a substantially different history.

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5 comments:

  1. MatthewNovember 17, 2014 at 5:23 PM

    I hope the writer did not intend this but Rekrab is a slur against homosexuals.
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Rekrab

    Which given that Clive Barker is openly gay is well...

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  2. Sean LevinNovember 17, 2014 at 5:34 PM

    Jeez. That's disturbing.

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  3. MatthewNovember 17, 2014 at 5:45 PM

    It's quite possible that it was a weird coincidence. I don' want to accuse whoever wrote it. (Who did write it?)

    I did not know it was a slur until I did a search to see if Rekrab was a real name.

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  4. Sean LevinNovember 17, 2014 at 5:47 PM

    D.G. Chichester, who also wrote a few issues of Marvel's Hellraiser series, including the Nightbreed crossover whose covers I posted here not long ago.

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  5. MatthewNovember 17, 2014 at 6:05 PM

    Well, given he worked on a Hellraiser series it's probably a tip of the hat that had an unintended meaning.

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