Bad Idea’s madness expands with La Parcela, a self-contained work about the price of fame and business deals that can go bad.
Hollywood, 1971, a group of people are in front of the camera and they start acting, it seems like an everyday scene, but Just as the director shouts “action,” fear and the grotesque invade the set. The madness does not stop and the scene becomes more and more violent, Some strange symbols appear above the characters and they all end up losing their sanity until they die. in the most grotesque way imaginable. The recording tape burns and a time jump transports us fifty years after the grotesque recording. A young woman is willing to revive that stage closed for 50 years and the price could be very high or not.
This is how La Parcela begins on its first pageswith a huge impact on the reader when he sees such an unpleasant situation. And so Margarite Bennett has already created the hook for this final story.What happened during filming? Was it real or was it a montage? What happened to Cloverleaf Studios’ storyline and what happened during filming? These might be the questions that arise in the reader, but they are also the questions that will arise for Aviva throughout this comic.
Aviva is willing to relaunch the company and everything seems to be going smoothly to position Cloverleaf Studios as the great film company it was.but the price to pay could be very high both for Aviva and for those closest to her. That freedom of Aviva to relaunch the company is even questionable, since it all seems to be part of a plan that she is not aware of and that could trigger a desire to collect debts that she has not been able to collect in time.
Hollywood at its finest
With this short story and the right and necessary ingredients, Margarite Bennett manages to attack the Hollywood system and how it works. Delving into the myths of famous people who made pacts with demons and many other beings to achieve fame, Bennett reignites the fire by highlighting the most current system and the most current problems of a system that ends up abusing those who try to realize their dreams.
To do this, he presents us with a series of characters as unpleasant as the opening scene of the comic. Some famous people have turned into “monsters” of fame It ranges from the director willing to do anything to create a new masterpiece to the actor who takes advantage of his fame and beauty to take advantage of others and who seeks eternal youth. Aviva will get to know them one by one and will discover that it was the filming that caused the closure of the plot It was caused by the excessive ambition of some despicable beings who caused the death of a team to gain more fame.
The Price of Fame
The plot is a fun work to read, fast and direct, it may seem simple and predictable at timesBut presents some necessary twists so as not to be the typical story of What is the price of fame? But it is true that it always leaves us with the feeling that it could go further and ends up falling and then getting up again. The problem could be in its extension only 4 chapters for a total of 112 pages and even leave each chapter with a good cliffhanger you might expect a little more junk and chaos.
This must also be taken into account The work arrives under the seal of Bad Idea, a new publisher that has broken the mold of distribution and creative freedomoffering his comics to numerous shops and donating the a unique space for writers to write and tell what they wantwith the idea that everything will be physical, nothing digital.
In this way, the union of the screenplay by Margarite Bennett (Animosity) and the drawing by Renato Guedes (Shadow Man, Infernal). The style at first sight might shock, totally black and white, without colors, but Guedes manages to convey the feeling of watching an old and forbidden film using stills/vignettes. In this way they manage to represent one of the most important things in horror, the presence of what cannot be seen. Since everything is in black and white, Guedes uses darkness to hide and reveal and then having to review the cartoons to realize that the beings were not there before and now they are.
As for the Moztros edition It should be noted that it comes with a couple of extras on the last few pages and that it has a hardcover finish. which is appreciated if we take into account the price (20,90€) and the number of pages. We must therefore applaud the fact that Moztros continues to take risks with this label, since then Bad Idea offers works that depart from the most conventional and give us short comics that can sometimes work better or worse, but that are full of originality and good ideas.
Official synopsis of Moztros:
In 1970, legendary director Oliver Larsen began production on what he believed would be his horror masterpiece on a lot at the famed Cloverleaf Studios in Los Angeles. Obsessed with bringing authenticity to the genre, the director insisted that real occultists perform a satanic ritual on camera. However, something went wrong… and the production was canceled, the footage confiscated, and the plot was forever shut down.
Until today.
After a meteoric rise at Cloverleaf Studios, Aviva Copeland is on a mission to bring the production company into the 21st century, starting with the revitalization of a 50-year-old shuttered studio: the same set where Larsen filmed his cursed masterpiece. But as Aviva will soon discover, this little plot may have been closed for half a century, but it is far from abandoned… and the evil that lives within its enchanted walls will soon seize the opportunity to kill again.
Writer Marguerite Bennett (Batman: Urban Legends) and artist Renato Guedes (Hellblazer: Constantine) present a terrifying vision of horror and Hollywood in the bold, gory style that only Bad Idea can bring you.