Forgotten Hymns

part 3
written by Andrew Guilde
art by Isaac Perez
letters by DC Hopkins

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"... and like some forgotten hymn the humming in my head reminded me of the way you made me feel."
-Sheriff Dane Donnell

Even 'Stranger' things.

Then there's strange things happening with seemingly random characters, who act out of a driven desire to control and go after any enemy to their religious cult. They talk in strange babble with wobbly green wide-stroked shapes around their word balloons. It's interesting that after three comics now I still don't have a solid idea of what's going on. Andrew is writing this whole thing backwards, where the FBI and other entities move and talk in straight matter-of-fact action.

Lynch territory.

I said earlier in previous parts of Forgotten Hymns that this reminded me of The X-files. I have to retract that. It's more like Twin Peaks. Andrew is definitely mining a Lynchian style of dichotomy where there are no answers, only scenes. David Lynch famously described how you make a movie, you write down ideas you have on notecards, arrange them on a table, and when you have enough of them you have a film. Of course, he's not describing his method really; the nuts and bolts of making passages make sense to one another is obvious and only requires some basic common sense, but who wants to talk about that?

Andrew Guilde, like Lynch, is assembling his own story borne on one strange scene after another (a quiet nod to Dune, the David Lynch one in one secret lab scene).