Corman is in a bare room with no clear idea how he got there.
He’s facing down a group of hostile men in black suits and sunglasses.
They behave like police, but have shown no badges, or offered their names to Corman.
They have an intense interest in Corman’s creative habits.
That character in his comic book?
Where did he get the idea for it?
Who is he aiming that rifle at?
Corman says it’s a product of his imagination, but they’re not satisfied.
The Plot is a mind-bending sci-fi thriller that evokes the paranoid novels of Philip K. Dick with the visual punch of Matt Kindt’s comics.
The Plot is the graphic novel Ed Snowden called, “The greatest conspiracy ever.”
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The Plot is a horror comic book that uses as source material conspiracy theories, with films like The Manchurian Candidate, The Parallax View, and urban legends like Men in black, and sleeper agents.
While I am a fan of older sources of horror, in telling a horror story, I wanted to explore what are both subjects I am fascinated with, and what I feel is underused horror fodder: unexplained phenomena and the domain of conspiracy theories. These are treated as separate fields by the people who study and catalog them, but when
you look deep enough they intermingle and overlap. The Plot is interested in exploring this gray area.
I am a big fan of the science fiction of Philip K. Dick, and while I don’t think he was into conspiracy theories, there was an underlying paranoia to his work.
Another big source of inspiration in creating The Plot is the work of cartoonist Matt Kindt. In particular Revolver and Mind Mngmt. Great comic book that explore similar subject matter as The Plot as mysteries.
Visual aesthetics of The Plot came from the book Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1981.) I never liked the stories, but the art by Stephen Gammell made a deep impression on me. I remember seeing it from across the aisle in a bookstore. It was far too good for the stories it supported. I feel a big failing of the film adaptation was to film live action, instead of using animation modeled after the art Stephen Gammell for the book.
Another visual inspiration for The Plot was the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone. Leone was a master of cinema who used striking compositions to tell you about the characters and to move a narrative without relying on dialogue. I wanted to use that to scare you.
If you’re a fan of John Carpenter, and The Body Snatcher (1978), The Conspiracy (2012), Burnt Offerings (1976), They Live (1988), and Prince of Darkness (1987), then The Plot is for you.
Here are some of the great things people are saying about The Plot:
From 3 Million Years:
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Here are the first 10 pages as a free watch:
https://globalcomix.com/c/the-plot/chapters/en/1/1
And you can buy the full graphic novel as a Kindle download here:
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