Sin-eater

And like I don't know if his MO has changed dramatically necessarily in this scene, but like, you know, you see like the bodies in his wake and you're just like, "Oh sh- shoot." Like he's just like really like doesn't care.

And like i- I, I don't, I don't remember ever seeing that kinda darkness from Electro, even in like, you know, like the Sin-Eater sto- or the Sin-Eater Returns story or whatever like that.

Like, you know, there's been some, you know, like, like Electro always just kinda seems to be a bit of a con artist and, and not a punchline, but like he's not, he's not this diabolical.

So kinda seeing this turn, you know, whether it's earned or not I guess you can debate, but like it, it, it, it was well done and, and, and given like McGuinness' art I think like sold the whole experience.

It has its own special rule, which is the swing blow rule.

Um, which is you can make one male attack against each enemy model within one inch of, you know, the sin eater.

So it's kind of a better cleave in some ways, worse in other ways.

But it's the fact that he can like get into a group of a bunch of little guys.

And so he's just kind of a tar pit a little bit, you know, in that way.

And so he's just been really neat.

And Johnny, you've seen my sin eater.

The only reason I've fully come over to the same year is because I finally found a skull, you know, the false prophet of greed sin eater.

That's how comics were written back then.

And so here we have the main plot of Sin-Eater killing Jean DeWolff, but then they sort- they're starting to introduce this new plot that does not get resolved in this trade paperback.

[laughs] So I was like, "Wait.

Oh, right.

And the juxtaposition you're talking about even becomes, I think, e- even more apparent in the second arc, which we'll get to.

Yes.

We're, we're dealing with Electro plus Sin-Eater.

So it turns out that Jean is killed by someone named Sin-Eater, who made an appearance in comics about two years ago.

Mm-hmm

... or the Sin Eater.

Mm.

Because the Bone Carver is, like, Truth for Truth.

The Isle of Man, however, has pinned its identity on low tax rates, motorcycle races, and, oh, yeah, um, mermaids and fairies.

Would you be willing to eat your meals off the chest of a corpse, in the process taking on their sins as your own? That is the gruesome job of a sin eater, and there were people willing to do it even into the 20th century.

But first, Dr. Richard Gallagher is a New York psychiatrist and a psychiatric professor.

He has spent 25 years viewing exorcisms, and he says fallen angels target the devout and those who've meddled with the occult.

However, he left that final word in its virgin F form.

Mermaid stories have never done anyone any harm, and Beachcombing hopes to come soon to Barnum's monstrosity and Carmichael's Hebridean mermaids.

[mysterious music] When Weird Darkness returns, would you be willing to eat your meals off the chest of a corpse, in the process taking on their sins as your own? That's the gruesome job of a sin eater, and there were people willing to do it even into the 20th century.

[thunder crashing] [suspenseful music]

... around the Welsh Marches and across Herefordshire and Shropshire specifically.

Yes, and sin eating has become quite popular in folklore circles, even if it was a really quite isolated tradition.

Nonetheless, in those border counties, poor local people were hired to eat simple foods, normally bread, and to drink ale over a corpse, usually within a wicker coffin by this point, with it being believed they would then magically absorb the moral transgressions of the deceased.

This was believed to relieve the soul of the person who'd died from its earthly burdens, ensuring it traveled light on its way to the afterlife.

They are the designated sin eaters of their culture.

A sin eater.

Oh, wow.

That is a really haunting way to put it.

Her, her, um, partner, um, love interest in the comics was also abusive.

He becomes a, he becomes a, a villain called Sin-Eater-

Hmm

... who eventually murders her.