I wouldn't argue we're full horror, but it crops up often enough and we're headed to some real unpleasantness soon.
The Sisters is an urban fantasy comic about three practitioners. NSFW more for language than violence; when violence occurs it is uncomfortable and in some realm of body horror and gore. Death is treated as death; there's weight to it. Without the weight, death doesn't pitch anything forward. We're slowly slipping into a larger narrative of Satanism in the American context, which in my research has always cropped up as fear and corruption of the domestic rather than any horned man eating babies. The whole of the dynamic between characters involved in a gruesome murder is based on that corruption and undermining to expose weakness and give some weight to the whole "stalking and flaunting it" thing that sometimes happens.
Going to be fun when we get to cult things. True cult stuff, in the American sense, fascinates me. Manipulation so thick you could cut it out of the air. And people buy into it because they want some strength of purpose; allowing it to undermine them and devour them for the sake of the personality.
We're nearing the end of our first story arc, got about 200 pages up. Next few weeks ought to finish making things heavy with some discoveries and wounds; and then we're on to final confrontation territory. I guess give it a shot, but we're less in the realm of The Devil's Rejects and more in the realm of Fright Night by way of domestic fallout, alcoholism, and low class living. Without any vampires.
I'd post some of our "dark" material but it spoils some plot points and you need that build-up for sake of impact. I'd assure you its worth it, but that's something you'd have to take on faith. The Long Nightis when the violence really starts, and an old short we did called Children sort of hits some notes we like. Certainly helps the powers are below street level, keeps things grounded and dangerous.
But we're slow burning this and I can totally see why this might not fit the genre as raw-dog as one might want.
