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stolisomancer (stolisomancer) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-08 12:50:00

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creator: christos gage, publisher: avatar press, title: absolution

Absolution #0
Just to clarify some discussion from the post I made yesterday, here are some pages from Absolution issue #0. #1 is a flashback to the first time John Dusk deliberately broke the law; #0 is from the "current day."

The pages after the cut are SFW.

One of John's most traumatic collars, a serial child killer named Coleman, has gone to trial. The morning before John is called to testify, John's girlfriend, a local homicide detective named Karen, points out that one of the spectators at the trial seems to be, well, more entertained than he ought to be.

Since his night's now free, John decides to track down the guy from the courtroom. He breaks into the guy's apartment, and finds stacks of bondage magazines and several taxidermied animals.

The next page is more or less exactly what you'd imagine it is.

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taggerung301
2009-08-09 05:37 pm UTC (link)

I see your point, but the biggest thing that hit me here was that this guy was masturbating (at least I'm pretty sure that it's implied, and if not I'm reading into things way too much) in a court room watching the trial of a serial child-killer

this isn't just some weird guy with strange habits - this is someone with a serious, serious problem

maybe he is just a talker
or maybe he really will go out there and fulfill his twisted little fantasies by killing people

I don't like that the main character just broke into this guy's house and killed him. I'm not saying that everyone with any sort of a weird kink should be overly scrutinized (cause that would be waaaay too many people, myself included). I was just remarking on how difficult of a situation this is. Imagine if you were in court as a witness to a murder, and you saw some guy enjoying himself in the back. Obviously you're not going to put on a costume and go kill him, but what can you do? You can't tell the cops - he's not doing anything illegal. You can't follow him and monitor his every move (well, you could, but that wouldn't be too healthy either). And yes, you don't know for sure that he might go out and do something terrible.

But if he's jerking off to descriptions of a crime scene, I would say that there's a pretty good chance that he will. So how would you feel walking out of that courtroom? Could you honestly tell yourself that he's probably just a nice guy with an unusual trait? Would this not bother you for a good while? Would you be a little worried when you read the local news every morning?

I'm not suggesting a solution (like I said earlier, killing him without him having done anything seems very wrong), and I sure as hell don't know a solution. I was just trying to voice my unease of this kind of a situation, and I hope that I never run into it.

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	stolisomancer 2009-08-09 06:38 pm UTC (link)
	Also, you should both note that the guy says, point-blank, that he's aware he's a cliche; he's okay with it; and even he says that sooner or later, he's going to kill someone. He's not protesting his innocence; he's taunting a cop. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ashtoreth 2009-08-09 06:43 pm UTC (link)
	Wasn't aware he was jerking off in the courtroom, thought he was just grinning. But whenever I grow disturbed by 4chan or the usenet writers that provide (perfeclty legal) kiddie porn rape fiction, I remember this: (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	taggerung301 2009-08-09 07:44 pm UTC (link)
	Well, I'm just going to end this unless there's more you want to discuss. Everyone has their own views. Agree to disagree? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-08-09 07:49 pm UTC (link)
	::bows:: (Reply to this) (Parent)

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