Infidel #4

Infidel is not only one of the scariest comics on the stands today, but one of the most relevant. It forces us to look at our current status quo through the guise of xenophobic entities from another realm, which oddly puts some things in perspective. Read this one with the lights on. Read Full Review

Everybody has some reason to be paranoid, only this time it is the dark forces of the supernatural that have been released as manifestations of hate. Infidel is as chilling as it is timely and continues to be well worth the read. Read Full Review

Infidel #4 is another knockout of an issue, continuing to create the unnerving and shocking horror this miniseries has already mastered. Pornsak Pichetshote, Aaron Campbell, and Jose Villarrubia have made something both in tune with the current sociopolitical climate and impossible to put down once you start reading. The writing is brilliant, the art is incredible, and the comic deserves a strong recommendation. Give it a read. Read Full Review

Inspired by the psychological thrills of 70s horror films, Infidel #4 creeps up on you before leaping out and feasting on your frantically beating heart. Read Full Review

The story continues and the violence increases. This isn't, however, a gore-fest and is psychological in tone and approach. It is a really good book, a really classy book, and it will have you gripping the sides of the armchair as you read...you have been warned (psst...read it!). Read Full Review

There is no shortage of wit, emotion, and nightmare-inducing imagery in the pages of Infidel, and issue 4 brings all of that to the fore. Some books just have all the gears in place; the artwork and writing in Infidel is strong, and the contemporary setting always feels like events took place the day you read it. And this one ends in a cliffhanger! Read Full Review

Readers are finally getting answers about the forces at play in this issue, which are much more straightforward than we were led to believe. There isn't as unique of an explanation for what's happening in the book, which some readers might find disappointing though some readers will enjoy for its familiarity. Read Full Review

Bigpoppa393

Jun 20, 2018

Scared the damn pants off of me.

Bill Blaze

Jun 22, 2018

Amazing issue. Can't wait to see how it ends.

mrDovydas

Jun 20, 2018

It's as creepy as ever as we're nearing the end. I don't think it will end well for the characters, especially considering all the events of this issue.

Matthew K

Jun 20, 2018

"... And how do you fight something you can't touch? That other people can't see?" "How the hell did we not hear all this noise ..." "Why... why is it so quiet? Why is it so quiet when it is so loud out there?" On the back of Infidel #4, Comicosity writes a blurb for the series which states: "[Infidel] challenges expectations by including the tensions between characters of different faiths, while not being explicitly about that difference." In fact, I would expand further on those words by adding that Pichetshote doesn't explicitly write a series that highlights the privileged blank white blindness and little intersectional horrors of every day life. He and the team don't preach it. They show it. They gradually show it through the flawed, scared, but sometimes at their core well-meaning actions of their characters, and their multi-layered environment. Medina shines in this issue. I won't say anything more than that. We also find out a little more about the possible occultic origin of the demons in Aisha's apartment, and it is pretty telling that this time they manifest in steam -- or the dispersed medium of water: doing more explicit physical damage this time. There are references to a twisted ideological Platonic World of Being that influences, or influences, our physical material plane of Becoming, as well as a snarky pop-culture reference that I hope no one gets sued over. Hell, even Medina's roommate Ethan has grown on me with his investigations, his horror writing background, research, and look very reminiscent of a young Guillermo del Toro: who ... thinks he knows all the conventions of the horror genre. And as far as the purported occultist who caused all this, Arthur Quinn, is concerned ... I almost sympathize with what he apparently tried to do at this point, except for a discovery Medina makes in Aisha's apartment that prompts her to say to Ethan: "Because in a room full of shadows, she's obsessed with the light." Medina has, up until this point, displayed an obviously justified abrasive persona with regards to "racial" tensions that actually gets challenged here, and reinforces that she is just a human being trying to do the right thing. I got a little confused with who Mitchell Fisher was supposed to be -- either the "bomber" or one of the victims of such in the apartment before Aisha moved in with Tom and Kris -- and whether or not he was tied to the discovery of last issue due to his tattoos (like if, for instance, Mitchell was Kent's late friend), but it takes away from none of this issue. In my last review, I was concerned that the team might have challenges wrapping up this story in five issues, but the last is going to be extra-sized, while at the same price of purchase. I also realize that Infidel has benefited from the miniseries single issue treatment, its format allowing for a perfect parsing of sequences and events. I can't help but wonder how putting it all into a trade paperback might affect the pacing. But I suppose we will just have to see. As I said, there is one more issue left. In the back of the book, editor José Villarrubia interviews Infidel artist Aaron Campbell who says, with regards to his love of reading Lovecraft and his affect on contemporary storytelling "What we can't relate to anymore is a fairy tale ending. They just don't ring true any longer." This is perhaps most telling. Indeed, even now if all goes well after all this, Infidel still will not end on a perfect, happy note. But I hope, if nothing else, it will take after fairytales' ancestor -- folk tales -- and at least leave a strong cautionary shadow in its wake. more