‘
Sacre bleu! L ook at that fish! What was that?!
Agh!
help!
Som ethin g p u l l e d him under… He’s goin g
Som eone hel--!
aaaiii!!! He’s finished!!!
under…
oh, mon dieu…
I’m frightened!
Calm down, ‘
Do som ethin g,
Geraldine!
Fran cois!
Aii!
No!
It’s got m e too! Nooo…!!!
HEL L L LP!!! AAAHHH!!!
nnn ghhh!
Say… say that again?
Not exactly.
You’re sayin g that behind ‘
Geraldine’s and all those
It’s all in this book. If I’d been good enough
poor girls’ murders there
to save your sister, she
are… fairytale characters?
They’re the dark si de of the fairytales. Their opposite pages, if you wish.
could tell you herself…
Take Cinderella. She di dn’t have an easy childhood, di d she? Kept as a slave, humiliated, beaten up every day by her stepsisters, those crazy bitches. They’re trick -mirror versions
You grow up like that and you’d just as soon cu t Prin ce
of the fairytales we know. They com e
Charmin g’s balls off and he’d
from another world with a cursed portal,
sooner fuck the Ugly Ducklin g.
a portal that opens on ce a year…
Bu t you won’t see that part in
that’s how they get to our world.
any children’s book.
You know it wasn’t
You’re
Can you hear yourself?!
a shark.
mad.
Tryin g to
And you expect m e to
understand
believe you!
how to seal up that damned portal ! It’s my mission. My reason to live. I
Yes, b u t this…
am their hunter,
it couldn’t
and they are
be th is .
my prey.
For years I have been tryin g!
I don’t expect
The tru th hurts --
anythin g. Yo u’ r e the
or kills. The tru th is
one who followed m e.
that each year, at Carnival tim e, Venice teems with monsters ki dnappin g and torturin g youn g, innocent girls to death! I don’t know why. Bu t it happens. And the wretched and the defenseless and the poor, dumb - bastard bystanders pay the price.
Yes, b u t… b u t…
They kill because it
And I don’t care
makes them feel alive…
why I’m the only
or maybe it’s som e
one who can kill
fucked- up an cient
them.
ritual… I don’t care. I don’t ask questions. I move my ass and get on the hunt!
Now if you’ll excuse m e, I have som e monsters to kill.
S ure… well, don’t
See ya.
stab anythin g I wouldn’t.
You’re wel com e.
I told you it wasn’t for ki ds.
“Tim e for the lion to strike. Ready or not.”
“They’re headin g for that godforsaken den.”
“Those two don’t know what they’re in for.”
Take it easy, signor. What’s the rush?
How do you
There!
fun waits for
know that -- do I
under his
no man.
look like a regular
jacket!
It’s Carnival…
gu y to you?
So fun you forgot your
I see
mask?
it…
Okay…
I guess this is part of your “costum e ”?
Then you’ll like our real- life dun geon, smartass! S urrender that weapon !
Can’t be an au thentic monster- hunter withou t it, cap’n.
…I give up.
OOFF!!
What the fuck you think you’re doin g?
Nothin g much… really nothin g!
Get him!
AAAGKK! Bastard! I’ll kill you!