Episode 23 (part 2) - The Boomerang Trap

Part 2 of episode 23, The Boomerang Trap, features the Unseen -- a mysterious masked man who just managed to subdue Karnifex!

By using a spell hidden in Karnifex's own suit, the Unseen immobilized the masked scourge: now it's time to force Karnifex into taking off his own mask, releasing his human host and neutralizing the vengeful ghost curse which has been plaguing the Karnifex uniform for decades.

But is this strategy going to be enough against such a resourceful entity as Karnifex?

The answer may be found in a flashback that recaps the origins of the Unseen, revealing what his suit has in common with Karnifex's kin... and what is radically different between the two of them!

Art by Nikolas Alecsovich.

Story & lettering by Franco Villa.

 
 

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, il "signore del reato"

Una variante "retrò" dell'uniforme di Karnifex, in una posa classica da "signore del reato" (o era "re del delitto"?).

Arte di Gianluca Gamba.