This week has seen a column on superhero-inspired poetry and a review of a comics poetry anthology, so Shea Hennum’s “Moebius Strip” felt like the perfect addition to the mix.
Moebius Strip
Shea Hennum
She was my two-page splash,
My panel one,
My gutter, my caption.
My bombastic exposition
and overwritten fiction.
She was my visual shorthand:
My Kirby crackle,
My Spirit,
My Howling Metal.
A first language, understood
semiotically.
Four colors—
Printed poorly—
On newsprint,
And lettered by hand
with sumi ink,
grown thick in my freezer.
Shea Hennum is a Texas-based writer who currently serves as the lead writer about comics for This Is Infamous. His work has also been featured at The Comics Alternative, eFantasy, The Fringe Magazine, and Schlock. Essays of his will be included as backmatter in upcoming issues of Shutter from Image Comics, and he can found as sheahisself on both Twitter and Tumblr.
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