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The Hellbound Volume 1 by Yeon Sang-Ho, Choi Gyu-Seok
3.0

This has some interesting ideas. Theology in a technological age literalized in a very strange way, for one. But it also doesn’t make much sense. Maybe the second volume answers some of them, but it sure felt less cohesive because it undermined the questions it poses by essentially hand waving everything. Maybe this is something you roll with in horror? I tend to avoid it. I will read the second volume because I do want the answers, but I can see why it’s polarizing. I also found out via the cover that it was made into a Netflix show, which I had not heard about and am a bit curious about.

Neat that this made the Eisners though. Its worth checking out, even if a couple other titles, like Talk To My Back, feel quite a bit stronger, overall.