Action Girl Comics #3
In "Mile Marker," Jessica Abel crafts a quiet yet chilling moment of dread in a single, rain-slicked stretch of highway. As a crew of house painters packs up during a sudden storm, they witness a speeding motorcycle and a passing semi—only to later find the truck abandoned and two riders dead, their bodies eerily still on the road. A haunting, grounded story from the early days of Action Girl Comics, with all art and letters by Jessica Abel, whose sharp, expressive style brings the tension to life.
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House painters have to stop working when a rain storm arrives. While they are packing up their supplies, a motorcycle with 2 riders goes by at very high speed. Not long after a semi truck drives by. A few miles down the road the painters see the truck at the side of the road, the driver is flagging them down. The motorcycle they had seen earlier is lying on the road, but no sign of the riders. They look around, then see them lying on the road, twisted like rag dolls, dead.
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