![]() ![]() ![]() That is not a metaphor.ĭespite what certain chopped-up snake-flags will tell you, there’s always been an understanding that the United States is too big to be one thing, and that the different countries-with-in-a-country all have distinct personalities, histories and ghosts: Southern Gothic stories don’t happen in the same world, much less the same nation, as foggy Northwest Passage mysteries in Oregon, sun-bleached Florida Noir or Midwestern massacre. So we are introduced to Shudder-To-Think, Pennsylvania, a coal-mining company town that’s spent the last hundred years burning from the inside out, and that somehow just won’t realize it’s dead. “One day, it was just your regular piece-of-shit coal-mining town where people died the way God and the company intended: hacking up pieces of lung or crushed beneath ten tons of rock.” ![]() (Hill House Comics and DC, Written by Carmen Maria Machado, Art by DaNi) ![]()
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