Hop on a luxury yacht to the far reaches of the globe in this most unusual Red Room saga yet. Welcome to the island of Pitcairn, home to a native civilization that has been sacrificing their people to the gods for generations in hopes for a good crop season - until bitcoin pirates discover the island and hatch their own plans. The smash hit splatterpunk series continues, from the creator of Grand Design and Hop Hop Family Tree, and co-host of the YouTube comics sensation, Cartoonist Kayfabe!
Ed Piskor had been cartooning professionally in print form since 2005, starting off drawing American Splendor comics written by Harvey Pekar. The duo continued working together on 2 graphic novels, Macedonia, and The Beats. Ed began self publishing Wizzywig after developing a huge interest in the history of Hacking and Phone Phreaking. 3 volumes, making up 3/4 of the full story, have been published to date.
Recently Ed had designed the characters for the new Adult Swim series, Mongo Wrestling Alliance.
In this issue of Red Room, after stumbling upon 10.000 Bitcoins, at the time when they were practically worth nothing, Dustin now wants some help opening the password protected usb in which he has them, because their value has increased to 400.000.000$. The person he hires to help him, kills him and goes to a remote island, in order to open the usb with the help of an old friend of his, who is being worshipped like a god by the locals and is hosting elaborate Red Room streams. As he admits himself, this is Ed Piskor's attempt to combine the idea of Red Room with folk horror. I'd say this combination works pretty well and surprisingly doesn't feel forced at all. The idea is very interesting and topical and the execution is very good. As always, the comments shown during the Red Room streams are for me the highlight of the issue (along with the beautifully gruesome artwork). My main problem with this issue was the ending, which felt very abrupt. I think it needed a few more pages to properly conclude the story, in a satisfying way. Overall, this was another very good issue, in this great series, filled with violence and blood.