Pink Midnight Presents: Barber Psychic

by Paul Allor, Juan Romera & Claire Napier

Clarence Adams is a small-town barber with a horrible secret: when he cuts your hair, he sees your future. But Clarence tells no one, and does all he can to keep the future intact. He works. He gets married. He lives a life. He lives the life he knows is laid out for him.

Pink Midnight Presents: Barber Psychic follows eighty years in one man's life, as Clarence tries to do what's right by doing nothing, even as an increasingly uncertain future threatens to swallow him whole.

“What a story. The tension is palpable to the final page. A quiet, unsettling tale like the best episodes of The Twilight Zone. Brilliant.” —David M. Booher (Writer, Canto, Dungeons & Dragons, Firefly)

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Story

Pink Midnight Presents is a weird horror anthology, in the vein of The Twilight Zone, Black Mirror and the strange stories of Robert Aickman and Stephen Graham Jones. But this horror doesn't rely on blood and guts. Pink Midnight Presents invites you into a world where nothing feels real; where characters feel trapped by circumstances far beyond their control--and realize that self-destruction is often the only way to grow. And to escape.

Barber Psychic is the second story in Pink Midnight Presents following the acclaimed silent one-shot The Butterfly House. Its premise is simple, but is used to plumb the complex depths of one man's psyche. Clarence Adams is a small-town barber with a horrible secret: when he cuts your hair, he sees your future. But Clarence tells no one, and does all he can to keep the future intact. He works. He gets married. He lives a life. He lives the life he knows is laid out for him. Pink Midnight Presents: Barber Psychic follows eighty years in one man's life, as Clarence tries to do what's right by doing nothing, even as an increasingly uncertain future threatens to swallow him whole.
 
Pink Midnight Presents is brought to you by writer Paul Allor (TMNT Vs. Street Fighter, GI Joe, X-Men), artist Juan Romera (IDW, CEX) and editor Claire Napier (The Magic Necklace, Image Comics). Juan and Paul have been working on strange comics together for more than a decade, and, along with Claire, are excited to bring this series of eerie stories to a brand-new audience!

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PAUL ALLOR
Paul Allor is a comic book writer best known for their work on properties likeTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, GI Joe, X-Men and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (for which they received national recognition for their work in developing the Death Ranger, a non-binary villain in the Power Rangers universe). They've also developed a number of creator-owned comic books, including Monstro Mechanica, Past the Last Mountain and the award-winning queer monster love story Hollow Heart. Paul lives in Indiana.

JUAN ROMERA
Juan Romera is a comic artist and comic colorist based in Argentina. His career began 15 years ago, in fanzines in Argentina, Brazil, and Spain. Then he went on to indie comics in the United States, where he published in IDW, Monkeybrain, Comics Experience, Desperado Publishing, Diablo Comics, Antarctic Press and many others. He continues to draw comics every day for various international projects and some personal ones.  Juan lives in Bahia Blanca City, with his wife, daughter, and dog.

CLAIRE NAPIER
Claire Napier is a critic, cartoonist and comics editor in England. Find her at clairenapier.com.

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“What a story. The tension is palpable to the final page. A quiet, unsettling tale like the best episodes of The Twilight Zone. Brilliant.”
—David M. Booher (Writer, Canto, Dungeons & Dragons, Firefly)

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