EXODUS - Rare Poser-Crushing 1985 Slay Team Comic Resurfaces With the help of Bay Area tour manager extraordinaire Doug Goodman,
Murder In The Front Row: Shots From The Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter
co-author Brian Lew has posted a pristine reproduction of
EXODUS' 1985
Slay Team fan comic to his impressive list of old school artifacts at
the Bazillion Points blog.
Created by
Lizzy Green, a member of Exodus’s inner circle during the
hectic Bonded By Blood days, this lengthy black and white saga portrays
members of the band as they slash, assault, and mow down the
poodle-haired metal posers spreading falseness instead of relentless
metal mania. This is truly legendary stuff, madness from inside the wild
minds whose crazed faces you see on every page of the Murder In The
Front Row book.
As guitarist
Gary Holt explains in Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal:
“Our singer’s ex-girlfriend was a really good cartoonist, and she
drew up these comics that showed us knifing and beating up Mötley Crüe
clones. We were constantly drinking and chain-sawing and jack-hammering
people to death. They were just for our own amusement, and then it
spread off to our fans in the local club scene.”