What Would Jesus Do? Let you eat him?
The Eaters from Peter Milligan is not an easy read. It will challenge your sanity and belief system if you allow it. Society tells us that eating human flesh is wrong. But in movies like Alive (1993), eating human flesh is acceptable to survive. I don't know if Peter Milligan was inspired by the movie Alive and it is not the idea of eating human flesh to maintain nutrition because of a plane clash that freaks me out, it is the relationship to religion.
What Would Jesus Do? Let you eat him? Christians are a very strong and powerful organized religion in the world and like all religions, rituals are like Magick. Consuming the Eucharist is symbolically consuming Jesus and Peter Milligan exploits that idea and "suggests" early Christians/Catholics were "eaters" (Cannibals). Some of the "facts" presented by Peter Milligan could very well be fabled, I am not sure where he would of gotten all that information, but by actually listening to what he is suggesting is quite scary.
Dean Ormston is hit or miss with me. When he does paint, such as the art on the cover, I like it a lot because of the sense of shading he has. His interiors are not always to my liking because a lot of the time I think the art looks flat and 2D. It does go with the story, so the ugly nature of his art could be seen as symbolic as the ugly truths to the eaters.
This comic was part of the Vertigo Voice stories and Peter Milligan's voice is strong in this book. The message he is preaching may not be pleasant so reader beware. I enjoyed this read because I respect Peter Milligan's writing. I would read it from a friend if they have it, but don't hunt it down unless you are a big Milligan fan.
Cheers!
- Silkcuts