Ultra-Gash Inferno is that straight brick to the head that says that someone, somewhere has faced those demons down. He isn’t in it just for the shock value (which it has) but to remind you that, at the core of us all, a monster hides so deep down that only the horrors of war and trauma could possibly bring it out. But don’t mistake all his art with the demented crap you find accidentally online his work has great balance of horror and sympathy that a lot of those comics, though trying to copy, are missing. All that messed up, underground Japanese art you’re too afraid to look at? He helped make that happen. He has inspired an entire generation of horror artists to break away from conventional horror and go straight BANANAS on the paper. His comic work had become iconic with a horror phenomenon known as erotic-grotesque or simply, ero-guro. The artist and writer, Suehiro Maruo, is one of the greats of Japanese horror. Exquisitely drawn and finely detailed, these short stories will remain with you for a long time. There’s even the quintessential schoolgirls who get messed up beyond sanity.
Soldiers coming home and losing their shit, a woman and a kid ferreting a dead child back and forth, and food survival after the war are just some of the happy, go-go tales you will read. All the stories are set in post WWII Japan after the US occupation, and all play around the idea of Japan re-building its country and beliefs from pre- to post-war ideals. Ultra-Gash Inferno is a collection of nine short comics illustrated by Suehiro Maruo, the current heavy-weight champ of horror comics in Japan. Remember how people said that A Serbian Film was not a movie, because it was not made to entertain you? Well this book does not entertain. Ultra-Gash Inferno is by far the most messed up comic that I’ve ever read. I’ve delved deep into the illustrated word, constantly looking for that next good comic and the next good scare. I’m going to level with you here, I’ve read a LOT of comics, especially horror comics. Have you ever thought to yourself, ‘I wonder what the Japanese equivalent of A Serbian Film is?’ Well wonder no more, my friends, because your fearless comic reviewer has braved the wilderness of the bizarre and grotesque to bring you a comic work of unbridled fucked-uppiness called Ultra-Gash Inferno.
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