Rather than slapping some pithy comments between splashy artwork, Trombetta forces a confrontation with very difficult realities by connecting the molding memories of real-life atrocities to the disintegrating comic panels of 1950s horrorbooks that have been far too easily dismissed as brainrot.
King is prolific, and not just in books: A recent profile noted that over the course of a few weeks this year he had a story published in the New Yorker, a review of a Raymond Carver biography in the New York Review of Books, an article in the horror magazine Fangoria and a poem in Playboy.
