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A Smaller Hell

Why in the world isn’t this a regular numbered series? I can see from the past issues that it started off as one, but then it turned into a series of individually titled comics. Granted, Adam does a nice job of recapping what came before at the start of the comic, but even that could have been made better if he had mentioned which issues to read to get a fuller story of the recap. I’m bitching mostly because he sent me two new comics to review and I’m still not entirely sure that I’m reviewing them in chronological order, and there’s no reason for that to a difficult question to answer. Anyway! This comic continues the story of Floid, Guedo and Madlenka. If you’re not familiar with any of those characters, check some of the other reviews under Adam’s name. Or maybe buying some of those comics would do the trick. Floid is bored silly after the woman he was supposed to be protecting was killed, and Guedo finds him and gets him to help find Madlenka. With a few fight scenes thrown in, of course. So they both go into her brain (a special trick of Floid’s), but their timing is terrible and she gets distracted and stabbed just as they go in. Oblivious to this fact the two of them go about trying to undo Madlenka’s brainwashing, but they only have a finite amount of time to do it and she may very well be dead by the time they’re finished regardless. Here is where Adam shines, as the creatures inside her brain were creepy as hell and the dialogue continues to make this book. In a lot of ways it would be easy for my to hate this, what with all the punch-’em-ups and such, but that dialogue is so often brilliant (and the art isn’t half bad either) that I can’t help but be drawn in. Once there’s some easy way to keep track of the order of these things I’ll have no problem with them at all. Guessing $6, mostly because it’s huge.