Alex Sanchez, Kerry Howard

Standard Comic
Full Color
Page Count: 24

This issue introduces Risa Aoi, an expert yoga instructor with a traumatic past. A clown masked robber rips her into a spiral of pain and fear, including coulrophobia, the fear of clowns. Dr. Clark Down is nearing the end of his analyses. The Contortionist, Risa”s alter ego, encounters a former patient of Dr. Down”s. An unrepentant perfectionist, he will experience the world of the Contortionist, but on her terms.

This series introduces Dr. Clark Down, a psychiatrist who treats multiple people with disparate phobias including coulrophobia, the fear of clowns. As the series progresses multiple former and current patients are introduced as Dr. Clark Down”s alter ego slowly emerges to reveal Dark Clown. He is obsessed with perfection and won”t accept any failure to cure each individual. He also has been tainted by his exposure to the mystical tome titled Dead Clowns.