Thrills, chills and transgression are back in third volume of Hotwire ! Hotwire #3 eschews literary high-mindedness for pure, gut-wrenching visceralness, gunning off the page with David Sandlin's “Infernal Combustion,” which is about boozing it up in a broke-down caddy, and Tim Lane's bit of freight-hopping grit, “Spike.” Underground comics legend Mary Fleener returns with “The Judge,” a true tale in which she fends off thugs... with a .38! Meanwhile, Hotwire Captain Glenn Head spins the biography of German surrealist Hans Bellmer as a down-and-out Vaudevillian in decadent Weimar Berlin. Other creepy delights: Rick Altergott delivers a fable of a child-molesting clown pleasuring himself in the suburbs, while Matti Hagelberg's “Passion of Atte” is a modern-day Dante's Inferno in comics form. There's also more knockout work and crazy visuals by Mark Dean Veca, Johnny ( Angry Youth Comix ) Ryan, Mats?!, Max Andersson, Sam Henderson, Steve Cerio, Stephane Blanquet, Doug Allen, Carol Swain, Craig Yoe, J. Bradley Johnson, Michael ( Tales designed to Thrizzle ) Kupperman, Danny Hellman, Mack White, Lorna Miller, David Paleo, Christian Northeast, Karl Wills and Jay Pulga. Looking for laffs? A psychic jolt? A partner for your next trip? Look no further than...
