Ready for a trip straight to Hell? Hard living catches up to Teddy, and eternal damnation awaits—but it’s nothing like the good book tells you. Hell is a therapy session you can never leave…
Its crude... its really quite gross but its also very creative and a lot of fun.
The creators had an idea of what they thought the afterlife is like and they really went wild with it. ... I definitely hope to never visit a bar in Hell.
Everything about this is a lot of fun - though fairly gross fun... definitely not everyones cup of tea. I enjoyed the little details and jokes of what the after life would be like. A lot of creative ideas. I think I mainly enjoyed it for the fun, whacky humour, certainly not my usual thing but nothing wrong with a little variety.
I don't think you could find a book that is more antithetical to my personal beliefs than this one; it just manages to offend on basically every level. The only reason positive is the art is technically well done, even if it is capturing things I can't imagine anyone wanting to see.
So take Good Omens, mix it with Office Space, and then have it written by a prepubescent boy who thinks camel sperm is the height of wit, and you get this mess. This version of Heaven and Hell are both miserable places, with a loser God and a bureaucratic Satan making things terrible for everyone. Our 'hero' Teddy Graham (and yes, that gets mentioned. A lot.) manages to screw things up, and a bored angel instigates the apocalypse, and all the disparate unlikable characters come together for an insipid conflict before the book espouses the 'moral' that if you love someone, best to run far away from them. It's painfully slow to read, and I was literally regretting it after about 10 pages; I am compelled to finish books I pick up, otherwise I would have tossed this to the side almost immediately.
There's probably an audience that finds this "over-the-top" humor and insult to religion (and I'm agnostic; I can handle a lot of religious criticism) enjoyable. More power to them. I know now to steer clear.
Ok, I loved this. Funny, unique, twisted, and a cool overall story. The art was good enough to enjoy looking at and the characters were a likable bunch. I finished it a few weeks ago so can't remember any specifics other than, yes, you should definitely read it. Especially if you can give it the more comprehensive review it deserves. Enjoy.
The art was very much like grotesque invader Zim style I was zoning out because it’s this guy. He’s in hell but hell like this downtown city nothing interesting and the word balloons were too stuffed with dialogue.