Stuart Moore’s Para TP Recommended Sci-Fi!

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STUART MOORE’S PARA SC – Full-Color. Creators: By Stuart Moore & Various. The X-Files meets A Beautiful Mind in this thriller about a scientific investigative team probing paranormal phenomena in the Supercollider, a gigantic, abandoned particle accelerator. Twenty years ago, Sara Erie’s father died there mysteriously, and now she’s determined to finally learn the truth.

Description: It lies beneath the barren desert of West Texas: a giant relic of science and human ambition so dangerous it was sealed twenty years ago in hopes that it would be forgotten. But there were those who would not and could not forget the day when an ill-fated experiment claimed the lives of loved ones and colleagues alike. Sara Eerie, the daughter of the man who fought to create this relic, the Supercollider, is determined to discover what happened to her father all those years ago. Para, the sci-fi horror series created by Eisner Award Winner Stuart Moore, is now compiled for the first time in a collection that explores science and the supernatural in a haunting and intricate narrative. Features a cover by Spectrum Award winner Stephan Martiniere. 192 pages. Size (7×10)
Penny Farthing Press

Careful attention to mood makes this psychic-SF thriller a standout. Moore and his crew of artists have watched enough episodes of The X-Files to realize that menaces are more frightening when they’re only glimpsed in oppressive shadows. The creators also recognize when it’s time to turn on the lights and start actually solving problems. Back in the 1980s, a giant underground supercollider apparently went wild and released radiation that killed everyone present. It’s been sealed ever since. Now, the lead experimenter’s daughter, who’s grown up shunning science, accompanies an exploratory team reentering the gloomy site, where they find no bodies, no radiation, just the word “PARA” scrawled on the walls in blood. Threatening, wraithlike creatures, government treachery and portents of the end of the world soon ensue. The supercollider’s deserted tunnels are spooky in themselves, and Para ‘s art team uses their darkness effectively as background for the explorers’ inchoate personal conflicts. Moore’s explanations for what’s going on sound scientifically plausible enough to give the story a solid feeling—even after more fantastic events. Finally, the character development is unusually convincing as the heroine transcends her past and moves forward, a cliché that actually works.

Near mint, 1st print.