Hotwire Comics #3 — Glenn Head

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...