Prey is a comic written by Bruno Catarino with pencils and inks by Gabriel Caitano Dos Santos and colors by Matheus Huve. A man struggles to make it to safety while being hunted. This is a supernatural horror comic with heavy gore, an eerie tone, and constant fear. The main man here is unnamed but he looks to be around 30-40 and he’s missing his right foot due to a bear trap. This story begins with this man dragging himself away from a camp littered with dead bodies in pools of blood. He struggles to go uphill and after one wrong move tumbles downhill at high speed. The violence here is extremely gruesome and gory with insides and blood everywhere. This moves at an overall steady pace with some speedy moments and it has a “focus on a doomed victim in a horror movie” like tone. This is violently intense the entire time with dramatic survival undertones.  There is a lot more narration than talking as we get a close look at what this man is thinking as he makes his desperate escape. There are no word-heavy pages here. This is a creepy and eerie issue that thrusts us right into a distressing situation that this lone man is determined to escape from.

            The art here is drawn in a detailed realistic style with heavy shading. Most of this comic is in black-white-and-red but flashbacks are in full color. This takes place completely outdoors at night in a thick forest with caves, mountains, and a lake. Due to the main man here traveling to a certain spot the location of the comic is always especially when you factor in the flashbacks. Backgrounds usually show the actual surroundings like the ground and trees with the cloudy gradient sky being further back. The expression level here is high as this man is feeling everything and he shows it. Fear and pain are the emotions you’ll see the most but there is some happiness. Faces here have a high amount of detail so just about every look is shown strongly. Violence here is very gruesome with organs being shown and blood pouring from mutilated bodies. Most of the action scenes here are quick shots of this man falling victim to the environment.

“Is this worth reading?”

Yes, if this is up your alley.

“Would I like this?”

If you like supernatural horrors stories that star an injured man attempting to get away from something and features gruesome gore, an atmosphere of eeriness, and constant fear.

“What would this comic’s film rating be?”

R. Violence, blood, gore, gruesomeness.

“Could I get a quote from the comic?”

“Who am I kidding? It’s too far to crawl.”

 

Physical Link: https://www.brunocatarino.com/store/prey-cover-a

Digital Link: https://www.brunocatarino.com/store/prey-digital

Kickstarter Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redwulfcomics/prey-2/description

***IN-DEPTH COMIC STATS BELOW***

Probably Contains Spoilers

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Actual Pages(not counting covers and credits): 24

Violent Pages: 3, for 13% of the comic

Sexy Pages: 0, for 0% of the comic

 

**The levels below aren’t necessarily maintained throughout the whole comic, but they were definitely reached**

 

Violence Level – 3

“Wasn’t no tussling at all.”

“Sometimes you gotta hit somebody.”

“I’m getting charged with how many counts of assault?”

“This was a tournament arc.”

“All my life I had to fight.”

 

Gore Level – 5

“The only thing leaking out your face is tears.”

“Looks like somebody spilled some ketchup.”

“Might need to soak that up with a bath towel.”

“That isn’t supposed to be outside the body.”

“This is a slaughterhouse.”

 

Death Level – 3

“And everybody lived happily ever after.”

“We might have gone to a couple funerals.”

“It just LOOKS like a serial killer was here.”

“Yeah this was a tragedy.”

“Think Gettysburg.”

 

Porn Level – 1

“Everybody kept their clothes on.”

“I guess it was too hot for a bra.”

“Sometimes you got to let everything air out.”

“This is like late night Cinemax in the early 2000’s.”

“Oh. This is porn.”