Karnifex Black

ENGLISH

Black and shiny like oil, the sleek and dexterous Karnifex Black rarely kills, as he prefers to toy with your mind, twisting your thoughts until you bring yourself to the ultimate end.

Will you just become completely crazy, or kill yourself? Will you murder your own family, or rape the woman you love?

Whatever happens, Karnifex Black will be watching, enjoying the show and preparing to take what's left for yourself.

It could be your life insurance, your now-rich and good-looking widow, your highly-expensive mansion, or even your sons. But it will all be because of your doing.

The human face of Karnifex Black is likewise insidious: a charmer and a player, his irresistible smile and intense glare seduce everyone into letting him into their lives.

And that's when he begins talking them into doing what's best...for him.

ITALIANO

 

Nero e lucido come petrolio, lo snello e agile Karnifex Nero uccide raramente, preferendo giocare con la tua mente, distorcendoti i pensieri finchè non ti porti alla rovina da solo.

Diverrai completamente pazzo, o ti ucciderai? Sterminerai la tua stessa famiglia, o violenterai la donna che ami?

Qualunque cosa accada, Karnifex Nero starà guardando, godendosi lo spettacolo e preparandosi a goderne i frutti.

Potrebbe esser la tua assicurazione sulla vita, la tua piacente e ricca vedova, la tua villa di lusso, o persino i tuoi figli. E tutto avverrà per causa tua.

Il volto umano di Karnifex Nero è altrettanti insidioso: un affascinante seduttore, il cui irresistibile sorriso e intenso sguardo seduce tutti e chiunque, lasciandolo entrare nella loro vita.

E da quel momento, Karnifex Black li convince con la sua suadente favella a fare ciò che è meglio... per lui.

Arte di N.K.

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La galleria dell'orrore italiano di Karnifex.

Wild West Karnifex

Karnifex is the supernatural masked killer whose appearance is constantly changing, as his curse moves from one man to another.

Wild West Karnifex (also known as KowBoy Karnifex) took possession of the young son of a Federal Marshal (or a Ranger?) and a Native American woman, turning the friendly kid into a deadly gunner.
Raping the same women that his father and his uncle swore to protect from the abuse of the white men, Wild West Karnifex is just waiting for the chance to challenge his own father in a quickest-draw contest.
For the moment, though, the kid is just happy to wait for the night, sneak out of the firecamp, don the leather mask of Karnifex and have his actual clothes transformed into the Karnifex suit. That's when the slaughter begins.
Yes, the everyday clothes of the kid are actually a disguised version of the Karnifex suit: in the Wild West, there was just no way to carry around a backpack for the full Karnifex suit without rising suspicions.
How the kid manages to remain so sunny and charming, even if he spends the whole day wrapped in the Karnifex curse, is truly a mystery of its own.

By Franco and Luca.

Check out the Italian Horror gallery for more designs and online comics of Karnifex, the thousand-faced monster that dwells in each of us.

Karnifex - luchador / 1960s / Trenchcoat / Salamander / versus Zigomar

Trenchcoat Karnifex by Terat0gen.

Salamander Karnifex by Seb and Franco.

Karnifex is the supernatural masked killer whose appearance is constantly changing, as his curse moves from one man to another.

Driven by endless greed, lust and thirst for blood, Karnifex hides his face behind a gasmask whose shape varies from the standard item's to skulls, insect-like heads, luchador mask and more. His suit changes shape as well, adapting to the lifestyle of the host: a soldier, a businessman, a politician, a cop, a thug, a student-- each of them has an innermost, disturbing self-image that is just waiting to surface. 

When the Karnifex identity plants its roots in a man, the reptilian brain that is a fundamental part of every living being, becomes dominant. And thus, Karnifex Salamander is born: rubbery and flexible as a salamander, shiny like a wetsuit, sleek and fast, he can bend his body in impossible ways, and only fire can kill him.

In the 1960s, Karnifex looked and acted different: he was focused on his "mission", never giving in to lust and greed. A perfect killing machine, Karnifex changed when the costume moved to a new host: a skinhead bodybuilder who adopted a Skull as a mask.

Body-builder Karnifex clashed with Serbian hero Zigomar, a character freely based on The Phantom. It's a possibility that Karnifex's and Zigomar's powers merged, when Karnifex stole the Zigomar ring: as a consequence, Karnifex was transformed into a new masked being... at least until the real Zigomar took back the ring.

Having lost his skull mask to a collector of arcane items, 1960s' body-builder Karnifex was encased by an extension of his own suit, which replaced the skull mask to hide the identity of the human host and grant him a measure of its fading powers. Influenced by the host, the replacement mask was shaped as a Luchador Mask.

Wrestler Karnifex only had a limited time to get back the Skull, before his powers were completely lost to him.

Check out the Italian Horror gallery for more designs and online comics of Karnifex, the thousand-faced monster that dwells in each of us.

Special Episode - A Kristmas Karol

In A Kristmas Karol, three different Karnifex version enter the fray! Or is it two Karnifex versions and a new masked vigilante?

Busy facing this mystery are the greedy and whealthy Uncle Quintiliano, his nephew Paolo, the seasoned Elda and the charming Rossella, plus a truly unlucky beggar. And there's the ghost of a step-brother, Giacomo!

Based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, from its very title, this episode is set in present time, which means that money and organized go hand in hand. As the clash between mafia families rages, so do grudge matches, vengeance and murder.

Also available in PDF format!

Art by Luca Bovo, Niki Neigebauer, Ibai Canales, Hosanna Lau, Seb.

Episode list

A different man inside a different suit is featured in the following episodes (in English!). But it's still Karnifex! Find the clues (or read the commentary beneath each page) and try to figure this mystery out!

2. Intrigue at the King's Court
6. The Arsonist
7. A Ghost Story
16. Got Milf?
19. The Patent War
21. Mobbing
Special 2013. A Kristmas Karol