I could only get issue #2 from my local comic shop, I wouldn't mind getting the first issue, but I hope it hasn't suddenly become really scarce and jumped up in price. On the plus side, if it has been a such a big seller, I guess it's good that it's such a success. As for the comic itself, I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to, I'd already heard that the artwork was cartoony (reminded me a bit of Hunt Emerson), but in the humourous context of the story, it worked quite well, some of the caricatures of Jack and Egg Shen literally made me laugh out loud. The dialogue was pretty accurate (Carpenter's influence?), I could actually hear Jack and Egg saying it. Nice touches; giving Jack a bit more backstory, also I liked what they did with the demon-thing from the end of the movie (Pete?!)If there's any bad thing I can say, it's only will it be able to sustain an ongoing series? I wonder if a series of one shots might have been better.
Either way, look forward to the rest of the story, pretty stoked for the EFNY comic, December seems a hell of a long wait. (I just hope they choose a suitably dark artist, maybe something along the lines of The Walking Dead, actually B+W might not be a bad visual style.)
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