I felt like sharing my journey in regard to the comics. But then I thought it’d be so boring to rehash the past, even the recent past, so I’ll just concentrate on what’s up ahead in the next four issues of SCAR.
We return to the current timeline and main protagonists, Bang, Violet, Cherry (the 3 Aspects of Scarlet Lane), after the last issue, 6, in which we dabbled into the premise of the universe by hinting on motivation of its creation and the subsequent arrival of the Watadi on Earth in the year 2022.
In the next 3 issues (numbers 7,8,9) we set up for the Big Pay Off on issue 10. Issue 7, 8, and 9 are focused on, respectively, Bang, Violet and Cherry and their respective male counterparts, ie, our “supporting cast, their lovers.
Bang is arrested by the PoPo and in jail she meets a hobo with a metal box for a head, his name is Jose Ruma Glassdoormind (an anagram for JAMES DOUGLAS MORRISON). They hit if off and escape together via Bang’s teleportation. J.R. takes a shower and reveals his beautiful face, sparks fly.
Violet visits the set of JIMMY DEAD VERSUS JEAN NORMAL, where the co-directors, Lizzy and Cherry, are at each other’s throats, literally. Vi stops the violence and makes sure they fix the script. Kirby, Vi’s fiance, arrives. She’s been avoiding this, but ends up going with him anyway. Kirby re-visits the place of their first date. Vi’s dim flame of love is given new life.
Cherry and Jeff aka Jimmy Dead, her scene partner, rehearse, as Lizzy storms off the set. When it’s time to shoot Lizzy comes back drunk as fuck, and asserts his wishes to change something about the scene that is more aligned to his original vision. Cherry obliges. Cherry and Jeff disrobe. This is, after all, a porno.
Issue 10 is a very sexy issue. We switch from all 3 couples, as they make love a montage of their collective pasts interweaves. This synchronous sex culminates into a simultaneous orgasm which snatches all 3 consciousness of Bang, Violet and Cherry into the same mental space: the mind of Scarlet Lane.
In this space a psychic message is being played, over and over again. It is Moody, their daughter, and she needs help, rescuing. She’s trapped in the Field of Holes in the meta-dimension of the Inner-Inner as her body is in a coma in the physical sphere. She’s about to tell them where exactly she is — when all 3 hear a loud “CUT!” from Lizzy.
Jeff pulls out of Cherry. The triple-psychic-connection is severed. All 3 are dumbfounded. They have no memory of this at all. Except for Bang, she’s always felt this inexplicable motherly abyss in her…
