Classics Review of The Demon: Hell's Hitman
Issues: The Demon #40, 42-49 (Collected in The Demon: Hell’s Hitman TPB along with Annual #2, which is not reviewed here) Writer: Garth Ennis Artist: John McCrea, Denis Rodier, Nigel Dobbyn Price: $12.99 Garth Ennis has always been my favorite comic writer. Rather than tell simple one-note, three-act stories he always seems to be able to write tight but rollicking stories with good pacing and often with an ending that can leave one staring slack-jawed at the final page. The brutality he brings to stories is rarely solely for shock value (except for maybe the series Dicks ) but instead is a realistic depiction and necessary ingredient of the stories he likes to tell. Although many artists contribute to this run, Ennis starts out with his longtime collaborator, John McCrea. Having previously collaborated on Hitman , The Boys: Herogasm , and the aforementioned Dicks , McCrea can use his art to bring Ennis’s twisted visions alive as few oth...
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I turned on the Today show and Viera was live in LA. She had to fly in (probably overnite) for this non-event? Talk about corporate excess. Ugh.