Ed piskor red room review
#1 is available in (most) stores now. Davis is known as “The Decimator,” Pentagram’s biggest star, whose penchant for butchery has put Pentagram within reach of being the “number one red room on the dark web.” Money is being made for him and his “Bree-Bree,” and things are going well — until Davis’ extracurricular activities, so heinous that the press eventually dubs him “The Steel City Cannibal,” land him in prison.
These precursors, products of the black and white boom that flooded the market in the eighties and early nineties were packaged cheaply, and replete with the characteristic errors of amateur publishing. Fans and followers of Piskor's YouTube channel sensation, Cartoonist Kayfabe, have already made Red Room: The Antisocial Network one of the most eagerly anticipated and talked-about releases of 2021.
Piskor takes great pains to portray realistic, state-of-the-art OpSec, yet dresses his characters like they’re extras on Barney Miller. Moreover, Piskor casts just about every character in their worst light, but, in depicting Black and Brown characters, he takes liberties that seem especially designed to court controversy, like when he translates a Black pimp’s mispronunciation of the word desk with an editorial asterisk on the book’s very first page.
But when the blood and guts are washed away, there isn’t a whole lot left to be excited about.
For all of Piskor’s slavish devotion to story mechanics, he does little to provide an overarching trajectory. Who is paying to watch? Characters from the “five families” profiled in these stories comprise the major players in the marketplace for Red Room snuff.
It is also obvious that Piskor has been uncompromising in delivering something raw and unvarnished on his own terms. For the uninitiated, a quick summation: people of means congregate on the Dark Web to watch murderers conduct their business in encrypted live-streaming events called “Red Rooms.” They tip the killers and their host cryptocurrency if the deeds done are pleasing enough.
What could happen to Bree and what that might mean for this next phase of Pentagram’s dark work is the issue’s hook. It sinks right in.
Bankrolled by his new mentor and benefactrix, Fairfield can handily provide tuition for his surviving daughter Brianna’s NYU ambitions, conveniently freeing him to pursue his creative endeavors. Their definition is slippery, but it tends toward works that traffic in stylized violence and offer singular or distinctive visual elements with an emphasis on transgression and subversion.
As the series states in the banner that starts off every issue: “Who are its victims? Red Room is constructed as a series of interconnected stories, shining a light on the characters who exist in the ugliest of corners in cyberspace. Red Room takes its title from a maybe urban legend in which torture and murder videos are hosted on the Dark Web, an online realm of hackers, traffickers, and other digital n’er-do-wells.