You're only using a
small portion of your brain... ever wonder what the rest is up
to?
Meet Suki. She has multiple personalities. She hears voices.
She's crazy... but not for long. Suki is almost ready rejoin
society thanks to the Siamese Burn, an experimental machine
which is burning those voices away one by one. All except for
THE SCRIBBLER; that one is getting louder. For a voice, it
doesn't talk much - instead, its messages come in the form of
backwards scribbles.
And what it's scribbling is "Let me out!"
That is the premise
behind THE SCRIBBLER, a 96-page original graphic novel by
writer/artist Dan Schaffer (INDIGO VERTIGO, DOGWITCH) out this
November from Image Comics.
"THE SCRIBBLER is not a superhero story, but it might be
superhero story in negative," explains Schaffer. "The
heroes are all nutters, characters with secret identities so
secret, even they don't know about them! And they're engaged in
a fight between good and evil that might not even exist. It's
not so much a dissection of superheroes themselves, because this
is really not a superhero book, but it is an exploration of
archetypes, the reasons we invent them, and how we use them to
create and fight invisible wars."
Confined to Juniper Tower, a halfway house for crazies where
suicides are a daily occurrence, Suki starts losing time - whole
days - and somebody's been modifying the Siamese Burn in her
absence. With the help of Hogan, an old hospital boyfriend, and
a cranky hallway stalker called Alice The Pusher, Suki plays a
dangerous game experimenting with the machine, trying to
understand its ultimate purpose. But each time she plugs herself
in, the machine changes... and so does she. The Scribbler is
growing and fighting to get out.
"THE SCRIBBLER explores our perceptions of identity and how
that affects the way we experience ideas of good and evil. It
asks the question, who are you? And then gives you a moment to
doubt your answer," says Schaffer.
THE SCRIBBLER is a 96-page black & white original graphic
novel retailing for $7.99 and is available for pre-ordering now
in the September Previews. It is scheduled to be in-stores
November 15th, 2006.
