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Mnemovore #1. June, 2005. Vertigo/DC Comics. Writers: Hans Rodionoff and Ray Fawkes. Artist: Mike Huddleston. Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher. Colorist: Jeremy Cox. Editors: Pornsak Pichetshote and Karen Berger. Okay, here we go, a new Vertigo title, and a lot of confusion on my part after the first reading. Kaley Markowic is a young, promising Olympic hopeful who has suffered a nasty head injury. The agonizing part of the healing process is her partial amnesia, but the doctors have recommended a good therapist. After some time Kaley returns to her apartment to stay with her boyfriend, and from that point on everything gets weird and gruesome. There's this icky sluglike creature that enters Kaley's boyfriend's ear while he's sleeping, and soon he begins to suffer memory loss. To make matters worse, the creature is growing inside him. It eventually exits the boy's body and attacks Kaley, trying to get inside her. She fights it off as best she can while some mysterious voice in her head encourages her to be strong. Is it the voice of her grandmother, her therapist, herself, all the above, or someone else? The first issue ends with Kaley unconscious on the floor, blood coming out of her nose, and the creature nowhere in sight. What is Mnemovore about? From what I've read about this series (as opposed to what I've read into the series), it's about the loss of memory in our ever increasing technological age, and the mysterious creatures in the dark that are coming forth and claiming our memory losses. For what sinister purpose? I don't know. I hardly ever know what's going on after I read the first issue of a new Vertigo comic. But I'm always intrigued, as I am with Mnemovore, which means something is right! | ||||
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