While he defeats the White Centipede, he doesn’t learn who/what he is, and hints at the end of the story indicate he will return to plague the Black Centipede and the world in the future. While there, the Centipede is accompanied by Earhart at the bequest of FDR, whom the Centipede saved from assassination.īut the Centipede must deal with a new menace: Jack the Ripper, who is helped by the mysterious White Centipede and the Black Centipede Eater. With this story, set in 1933 after the first one, has the Centipede in Hollywood dealing with a movie based on him called “Blood of the Centipede,” written by his pulp biographer and directed by Arbuckle. Real characters from the period ( William Randolph Hearst, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Fatty Arbuckle, Albert Einstein, Aleister Crowley, and others) are mixed in, along with fictitious characters and places. Overall, the Black Centipede is a mixture of crime/pulp hero/weird menace character. Some shorter stories have appeared in Pro Se Presents, Pro Se Press‘s monthly digest ‘zine.Īnd Chuck has exploring his Black Centipede character and the world he lives in on his blog.
You’ll have a better understanding of the character, and his link to two of the other characters in this story. I recommend you read the first before this one. The first one, “ Creeping Dawn: The Rise of the Black Centipede,” served as an origin story for the character. “Blood of the Centipede” is the second book-length appearance of Chuck Miller‘s character The Black Centipede.
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