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Title: THE CREEPING BELOW
Author: Brian Azzarello
Artist: Vanessa Del Rey
Type: Graphic Novel

Review: THE CREEPING BELOW (graphic novel, collects THE CREEPING BELOW 1-4) is an extraordinary, wide-open, no-holds-barred graphic novel of extreme Horror packaged with a feminist revenge slant grounded in Ancient Nature Horrors with flavors of Norse Mythology, set in a rural Norway forest. This one is sure to knock your eyes out while simultaneously ripping open your imagination.
NOT for the faint of heart due to language, extreme violence, Nature Horror, brutality, vengeance.
But: extraordinary art, premise, plot, character rendering, and outcome.
Read at your own risk, but read it--do.

Val, the protagonist, is not initially a Villain, but she is recreated by one as she morphs into a new form, controlled by ancient nature horror, and sets out to wreak revenge--13 years later--on the band who tricked and brutalized her; who, in a very real sense, "sacrificed" her, and who each will now suffer the eventual consequences.