by Lisa Fary
Slop is really disturbing. The collection, published by 803 Studios, is an anthology of shorts centering on Remus, a pig farmer with a nasty habit of murdering hookers and feeding them to his pigs. The most horrifying part is that the stories in Slop are inspired by an actual guy. Robert Pickton, the Canadian pig farmer who was convicted of killing six women, but is believed to have actually killed around sixty.
Each story takes a different perspective on issue. One focuses on a group of hookers who know about Remus and, every once in a while, encourage a newbie hooker, usually a runaway, to service him. Why? Because it tides him over and keeps the other girls safer.
At least, you never really feel sorry for Remus. He’s not given much of a motive – there’s a bit about a woman who left him, but it’s not enough to reconcile the monster he is. He’d get along well with the House of 1000 Corpses family.
But, Slop isn’t just a sloppy portrait of a serial killer or re-staging of the Pickton murders. The writers and artists tackle all aspects of the story from the law trying to catch him to just who is affected when a prostitute never comes back from a trick (the saddest drawing of little kids holding stuffed animals you’ll see today).
Slop is a worthwhile read - if you can keep your stomach from turning.
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Lisa Fary is a graduate of the creative writing program at Florida State University and holds an advanced degree in Special Education. Her early exposure to classic Battlestar Galactica in 1979 is largely responsible for her lifelong interest in science fiction and her childhood ambition of being an intergalactic space cowgirl.
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Lisa Fary's earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She's angry that it's 2011 and she still doesn't have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram. 
