What could lead a popular high school teacher to set himself up as the devil? And what is the secret behind his mysterious mask, which gives him the power to condemn the wicked to an eternity in his custom-made City of the Damned, a ghoulish structure of blood and flesh erected in the middle of the American Heartland?
Shaun Manning is the creator and writer of Interesting Drug for BOOM! Studios’ Archaia imprint and Hell, Nebraska on Comixology. Next up is Macbeth: The Red King with Lucha Comics. His work has appeared in Dark Horse Presents, Top Shelf 2.0, Hope: New Orleans, and The Looking Glass Wars: Hatter M, as well as in several literary magazines, on stage, and on BBC Radio 4. Shaun took home first prize for a reading from his comedy novella Pizza Good Times in Edinburgh, Scotland; the trophy was a bottle of whiskey.
This is a decent story. It attempts to dive into ethics and morality. And abuse of power. I have it four stars for the potential the continuing story could see realized.