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Clive Barker Artist Turns To Evangelical Christian Comics

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Dan Lawlis is a comic book artist whose work was most prominent in the eighties and nineties. As well as working on superhero comic books such as X-Men, Cloak And Dagger, Shadowmasters, Barb Wire and Spider-Man, he also drew a number of Clive Barker comics, namely Nightbreed and Book Of The Damned.

It now looks like he's moved to Book Of The Saved instead.

Orange Peel 3 is a Christian evangelical science fiction/fantasy parallel set on the planet GoddEarth overrun by many species and enslaved with a Godless dictatorship that has turned the world against itself. There are straw men and caricatures everywhere and the alien races help exacerbate that, most prominently in a Pro Life rally where the participants all have fanged teeth – and just before the protagonist is visited by an angelic aborted alien fetus.

Yes, there's a fair bit of that kind of thing.

But artistically, it's an interesting look for Lews, with a style seemingly affected by the likes of Neal Adams and Alan Davis via Joe Madueria, creating very pleasing superheroic alien figures, albeit a tad on the didactic side. Read more for free here.

Clive Barker Artist Turns To Evangelical Christian Comics

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