At 30 pages in, I knew the villain protagonist was a metaphor for AIDS as a serial killer - and that's exactly what the story ended up being about: how AIDS spares nobody at all. This was deeper than its gimmick initially suggested, kind of like an LGBT answer to *American Psycho*, albeit with a much greater focus on the gore and cannibalism. I'm not too surprised why its splatterpunk reputation precedes its caustic outlook on the homosexual male community dissolving from the inside-out; the gore and death is **very** upfront and described in ways that emphasize the sensuality of the kill equated with sex. But that eroticism really serves the metaphor in the sexual spread of AIDS among homosexual male communities in this era.

I've got some issues with its pacing (a character went from "my friends don't want to do my pirate radio station, therefore I should kill myself" in about 3 pages, it was jarring), but overall definitely glad to have experienced this and I'll have to wash out my brain a bit with something lighter.