A Walk Through Hell #1

[history79]

"It’s been quite a while since I last did a horror book. Caliban was partly science fiction, so really the last flat-out horror story I started would have been Crossed in 2008. That came partly from my reaction to the Bush era, revolving as it did around themes of chaos and abandonment. A Walk Through Hell is more of a response to the current administration, involving corruption and wrongdoing, and the bubbling up of an evil long held in check. All in all, I decided it was time for another gaze into the dark."

- Garth Ennis

Comments

[neverwherehere]

I'm not exactly sure what's going on other than, "very bad things are about to happen."

I don't know much about this writer. What's his horror style like?

[informationgeek]

See Crossed for details of his horror. :|

[thatnickguy]

Or his run on Hellblazer, which was pretty good. Crossed...not so much.

[doctor_spanky]

I think Crossed is actually a pretty well-told story, I just never want to read it again

[informationgeek]

Welllll, maybe Ennis' run. Lapham, Gillen, Moore, and others? Good is questionable.

[doctor_spanky]

Ennis' initial run was plenty of Crossed for me. I only know Lapham through Ferals, which is a pretty typical (not in a good way) Avatar comic. I've seen bits of Gillen's, Moore's and Spurrier's Crossed runs on s_d and while I'm a fan of their work in general, I'm not too interested. I kind of liked what Moore was going for with the post-apocalyptic slang, but mostly it just frustrated me

[captainbellman]

Or just look at the recent "Jimmy's Bastards" posts to get an idea of his current levels of writing quality. (Spoilers: it's nnnyyyooott good)

[deathcrist2000]

Or Punisher: The Platoon (which is very good and probably more in line with this comic than the more comedic Jimmy's Bastards).

[shadur]

Jimmy's Bastards was Ennis' attempt at being funny ?

... Dear lord.

[captainbellman]

I would disagree; both works are Ennis attempting (unsuccessfully) to engage with modern culture. "Bastards" is his half-arsed response to modern-day discourse on gender and misogyny, among other things; this comic is rife with tweets and talking heads re: mass shootings and Trump.

Neither of them very convincingly shows that he's got anything to say...and all of this stuff about what the heroes are about to see seems like he's just trying a less drug-trippy version of Morrison's "Nameless".