Smuggling Spirits, Book 1

by Ben Fisher

For fans of HELLBOY and THE WALKING DEAD comes SMUGGLING BOOK ONE! Set in an alternate vision of the Prohibition-era, SMUGGLING BOOK ONE introduces Al Stone, a bootlegger who finds himself on the run from an unrelenting horde of creatures that believes he holds the key to their destruction.

Genres: Graphic Novels

80 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Nick · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book while I was reading it, but within about five minutes of finishing the holes it the plot and the world began to break through and nag at me. If you can ignore that kind of thing, it's a good story, a blend of 1920s noir with guns and bootleggers, combined with horror fantasy about strange and creepy things from another world.
The main problem I had with the plot (and the world) is that the situation is just too unstable, as presented. People are going to devote major efforts to wiping out the infestation, but we never see any of that. Instead, we see a world where people in cities keep going almost as normal, but folks in the countryside are terrorized by monsters. Since things like, oh, let's see...food, oil, coal, minerals and any other raw materials come from non-urban areas, 1920s America just doesn't keep running in the cities without those things. Sigh...