The Dregs, Issue #1 has a cover that intrigued me at the comic-book store two days ago. I hadn't heard of the creators, and I hadn't heard of the publisher, Black Mask. Well, guess what? It's gross. A homeless man is kidnapped, drugged, detoothed, shaved, and beheaded before his meat and intestines are used to make sausages to be served at a fancy restaurant. The Dregs. "You either get clean and escape, or live here until you die. It's not pretty, but it's home." The homeless of Vancouver are going missing. "One's an anomaly, two's a coincidence, three's... is there a third?"
The intro quotes "A Modest Proposal," the short story by Jonathan Swift. If you haven't read it, you probably should. Gentrification, the practice of making poor neighborhoods into rich ones, is a constant theme. You have an old homeless man playing detective. What will he find? I have to say, I'm into this comic. I can't wait to see where it will go, what characters and situations will be introduced.
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