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Intersect (single issues) #1-6
Intersect, Vol. 1: Metamorph
Something terrifying is reshaping the very fabric of the city of Detroit - and everyone in it. Living bodies twist and warp while the streets beneath their feet distort and crystallize, scrawling a grotesque new design on the face of the world. Nobody knows why... and a violent compulsion to make sense of this altered state is taking hold of everyone caught on the inside... Critically acclaimed cartoonist Ray Fawkes (ONE SOUL, Constantine, Batman : Eternal) brings a stunningly realized, poetic nightmare to life in this fully-painted volume collecting the first six issues of the controversial ongoing series INTERSECT. Nothing will ever be the same again.
128 pages, Paperback
First published May 20, 2015
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About the author
Ray Fawkes
467 books84 followersRay Fawkes is the critically-acclaimed author of the comics and graphic novels Underwinter, Intersect, One Soul, The People Inside, The Spectral Engine, Possessions, and Junction True, as well as Batman: Eternal, Constantine, Justice League Dark, and Gotham by Midnight (DC), Wolverines (Marvel), Black Hammer '45 (Dark Horse), Jackpot! (AfterShock) and more. He is an Eisner, Harvey, and Shuster award nominee and a YALSA award winner.
Ray has been making comics for over 20 years, starting with and continuing the tradition of DIY fiction as well as working for many major comics publishers in the U.S. and Canada.
Ray has been making comics for over 20 years, starting with and continuing the tradition of DIY fiction as well as working for many major comics publishers in the U.S. and Canada.
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December 7, 2017
More watercolors from hell as Ray Fawkes explores the sadomasochism of love on an expressionistic canvas that features gender bending, body swapping and shapeshifting in a Detriot that's now made of the dying flesh of friends and lovers. One of the avante garde witers/artists to watch in the medium.
October 8, 2017
This was horrific and thought provoking. It was all blurred art and blurred story and blurred shifts from a reality or a mind so fractured and damaged that as a reader, it was so fucking hard to follow.
Too hard to follow most of the time, but I stuck with it and tried to understand what I was seeing, reading, and witnessing on these pages.
At the end of it, it felt like a confession ripped from someone so damaged that we (the reader) were living their hell.
This is absolutely NOT a story for everyone, and what I got from it very well may be wrong.
So completely wrong. But, it's what I felt in my core while I was reading.
It was visceral and a bit traumatizing and a lot heart wrenching.
Too hard to follow most of the time, but I stuck with it and tried to understand what I was seeing, reading, and witnessing on these pages.
At the end of it, it felt like a confession ripped from someone so damaged that we (the reader) were living their hell.
This is absolutely NOT a story for everyone, and what I got from it very well may be wrong.
So completely wrong. But, it's what I felt in my core while I was reading.
It was visceral and a bit traumatizing and a lot heart wrenching.
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July 3, 2015Gorgeous art, but I had no $#%#! clue what was going on...
December 26, 2018
Well...this is one of the weirdest comics I've ever read
February 5, 2023
This was absolutely traumatizing, but in a very good way. Definitely not for everyone, when it comes to art and story too. Very interesting, extraordinary and I am glad I bumped into this piece.
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October 25, 2019Like Cronenberg did an episode of Black Mirror, or a US remake of Pollen, the city of Detroit has suffered some unexplained apocalypse, people merging into each other, the plants, the buildings. All of it rendered in... I'm not sure if they're chalks or watercolours, but the haunting, shifting effect is perfect. The tides of music, birds and weird sex echo Fawkes' other solo book, the magnificent Underwinter - but this has a surprisingly conventional thriller spine, and a few scenes only saved from conventionality by the visuals, meaning that it can't help but feel like a larval form in comparison.
October 24, 2025
Freak a leek
May 28, 2015
Horror the way it should be.
August 2, 2017
This book Definitely qualifies as one of the most unique comic book / graphic novel I've ever read.
And its not just the art, which is amazing BTW, but also the narration style.
I have to say, just like a lot of reviewers here, I couldn't make head or tail of it. I struggled!
But I guess the art and the way the story unfolded was too gripping (or maybe it was just my inquisitive nature). The more I read, the more I started to see what was happening.
If I were to put it as an analogy, I started out blind and by the end of it, I could identify one object from other. But no 20/20 vision. Maybe it was meant to be blurry. Maybe I need to read it a few more times. Maybe I was not ready. But believe me, the last issue more than makes up for it.
This would have been a 4 star review (not 5 since I'm not there yet), had this been a review for targeted audience. but to keep the review universal, I do not think the book is something for the masses (thus the 3stars).
To sum it up, not sure if the review helps you, but I would say that if you love comics and unique art, do not miss this one. But if you new to this genre / medium of story telling, you might wanna give this a pass.
And its not just the art, which is amazing BTW, but also the narration style.
I have to say, just like a lot of reviewers here, I couldn't make head or tail of it. I struggled!
But I guess the art and the way the story unfolded was too gripping (or maybe it was just my inquisitive nature). The more I read, the more I started to see what was happening.
If I were to put it as an analogy, I started out blind and by the end of it, I could identify one object from other. But no 20/20 vision. Maybe it was meant to be blurry. Maybe I need to read it a few more times. Maybe I was not ready. But believe me, the last issue more than makes up for it.
This would have been a 4 star review (not 5 since I'm not there yet), had this been a review for targeted audience. but to keep the review universal, I do not think the book is something for the masses (thus the 3stars).
To sum it up, not sure if the review helps you, but I would say that if you love comics and unique art, do not miss this one. But if you new to this genre / medium of story telling, you might wanna give this a pass.
August 1, 2018
Fawkes' graphic novel is not easy to digest nor is it meant to be so. Despite an attempt, I could not quite twist my nervous systems to quite comprehend the work whose story and watercolour arts are flowing together and apart with violent clashes.
The style is suitable for the themes. Set in a nightmarish Detroit, the graphic novel delves into loss, change, gender and sexuality in a feral manner. The themes are interesting and at times thought-provoking, but approach to them is not easy and was too hard for me on the first try at least.
The style is suitable for the themes. Set in a nightmarish Detroit, the graphic novel delves into loss, change, gender and sexuality in a feral manner. The themes are interesting and at times thought-provoking, but approach to them is not easy and was too hard for me on the first try at least.
November 22, 2018
Hard to follow in a good way. Visceral body horror nightmare presented in gorgeous, blurry watercolour.
I suspect I'll be thinking about this for a while. The loss of boundaries between individuals, between people and animals, between organism and environment. Terror of bodies, gender, sexual desire, decay and rebirth, emotions of many forms, all shifting and mushing together into a beautiful, terrifying soup.
In a certain sense this reminded me of End of Evangelion and Instrumentality, but with a different kind of emotional landscape.
I suspect I'll be thinking about this for a while. The loss of boundaries between individuals, between people and animals, between organism and environment. Terror of bodies, gender, sexual desire, decay and rebirth, emotions of many forms, all shifting and mushing together into a beautiful, terrifying soup.
In a certain sense this reminded me of End of Evangelion and Instrumentality, but with a different kind of emotional landscape.
March 11, 2020
Absolutely gorgeous art and a headtrip of a story make this one of the best comics I've ever read.
December 14, 2022
Ummmmm what did I just read? I’m so lost
October 15, 2016
I'm not sure I understand the point of it all. At the core of it, it seems to be someone struggling with addictions, and a love that is different, leading to horrible violence. The art is so flowing and ambiguous, almost like a Scanner Darkly on overdose. It just feels violent and extreme without purpose, or maybe just not a good enough purpose or meaning.
Upon rethinking it, maybe it's because the protagonist wants something impossible and seems ungrateful for what they have until they don't have it. I don't really need that sort of one-sided message as I already see plenty of examples of this in real life and am plain tired of it.
Upon rethinking it, maybe it's because the protagonist wants something impossible and seems ungrateful for what they have until they don't have it. I don't really need that sort of one-sided message as I already see plenty of examples of this in real life and am plain tired of it.
November 2, 2016
Before you read this, know it's not an easy-to-follow story. It's not meant to be; that's it's beauty, what draws you in and compels you forward. It's meant to challenge, for you to slow down and warp (not just wrap) your brain around all the questions it raises. Graphic novel and graphic poetry, slowly revealing information only to raise more questions. It's complex, confusing, spellbinding. Embrace it, and reread it.
May 16, 2016
Fawkes tries to do something different with comics in this surreal tale which felt at first like some kind of commentary on the decay of Detroit with bodies merging into each other and buildings and everything falling apart. Towards the end it suggests a different reading, though. It doesn't quite hold together but it's interesting and the art is nice.
July 4, 2015
The writing well pretty good. The artwork was FUCKING AMAZING! The plot was super difficult to follow, like what the fuck happened? No seriously, like, I don't know? Maybe that's the point?? I'm confused. It's was great though.
May 1, 2016
Not my cup of tea.
As art I might appreciate it at least some of the pages.
And to be honest, the story was so hard to follow and I at least felt that it just didn't make any sense. Not really.
Oh well, I suppose its always nice to try something completely different from what I usually read.
As art I might appreciate it at least some of the pages.
And to be honest, the story was so hard to follow and I at least felt that it just didn't make any sense. Not really.
Oh well, I suppose its always nice to try something completely different from what I usually read.
November 4, 2020
The art was incredible, but the story was an unhinged fever dream that started off impossible to follow and went downhill from there. I appreciate experimental storytelling, but not all experiments are successful.
June 8, 2015
2.5 out of 5 stars
The writing and art was so beautiful, but the plot was so poorly executed.
The only saving grace was like I said was the art and writing.
The writing and art was so beautiful, but the plot was so poorly executed.
The only saving grace was like I said was the art and writing.
July 14, 2015
I'm not sure if this was absolute genius or batshit crazy. The lines between the two are often a little blurred.
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November 6, 2015Hard to follow but evocative. Good food for thought if you're a creator yourself and like cryptic hints of stories to set your mind wandering in its own directions.
March 8, 2019
Fawkes art is brilliant! The story is scary in part because of how much is unknown about why things are happening.
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