Surprisingly I didn’t enjoy this as much as I had expected (or hoped) I would. Maybe it's just difficult to enjoy it...

I thought it was very angry and there wasn’t much humanity within its pages. The characters seemed like sketches. Incomplete. No motivations. Just doing bad shit cause, well, they’re bad guys. Eric clearly the one who was fleshed out a bit, but it felt like his revenge was all very one dimensional.

He was full of chat and pseudo-philosophising as he mowed through the bad guys, but there wasn’t much in the way of charm or suchlike. Maybe that’s me viewing him as, or comparing him to, Brandon Lee’s portrayal. I dunno.

The art (within this special edition anyway) is a bit inconsistent, too… that was jarring at times. Distracting. Sparklehorse and An August Noel just felt a bit out of place. Particularly the August Noel.

Anyhoo, maybe it just wasn’t what I needed or maybe others have taken the formula and improved upon it. I dunno, it all just left me feeling a bit cold (maybe that’s the point?)… I appreciate its place and importance for indie comic writers and suchlike, I just thought I’d like it a whole lot more than I did.

But yeah, disappointing… a bit empty… that’s just my take away from it.