NERRRRRRRRD! vol. 81

How Brightburn connects to one of the best superhero comics ever

caught Brightburn this past Friday and really got a kick out of it.  a near perfect splicing of blockbuster superhero myth making, rural slasher terror, and the darker strains of the coming-of-age sub-genre like (possible reach warning) Reflecting Skin or the Boy (not the puppet one with Maggs from Walking Dead). focused, brutal, bleak, and allegorical without being heavy-handed, a caustically cautionary tale about the diseased wish fulfillment of 12 year old boys, that time in your life where the juvenile fantasies of pre-adolescence collide with burgeoning sexual desires, one causing the other to mutate wildly. now put all that in God Mode.  if that scratches ya wheres ya itch, give it a whirl.