Written by Russell Nohelty
Edited by Gwendolyn Borgen
Art and Letters by Renzo Podesta
Cover by Renzo Podesta
Published by Viper Comics
We pick up where we left off with Ichabod Jones number 1, only rather than thinking that he has escaped, we find ourselves back in the doctor’s office wondering if Ichabod is doing ok. The idea is that the entire first book happened in Ichabod’s brain, without ever touching the real world around him. Yet the doctor thinks that Ichabod is doing ok, and leaves him without the straight jacket, and with a new roommate that lasts maybe about 1 panel before Ichabod starts responding to internal stimuli again and sees his sweet roommate as a monster bent on killing Ichabod. Well after the bloody scene with the now ripped into shreds roommate, Ichabod is sent off to the electroshock therapy room where the doctor shocks Ichabod into not only submission, but to the point where he needs an AED to bring him back to life again. Or is he really shocked back into life? From here we depart into the bowels of hades where Ichabod meets up with a bunch of people, and one dead monster from book one.
Can Ichabod be a hero and lead this rag tag group of people cut off from hades into the world again so that they can interact and be part of life? Or are we buried deep into the tortured brain of Ichabod who is lying on the electroshock table having a near death experience? Or are we really trapped in the basement of the Mental Institution? This is why the whole comic book rocks, we gently slip back and forth between one mental state and the other one. And in this segment we are thinking that Ichabod has to save a group of survivors of the latest monster attack to hit the place. Using the monsters guts as a rope to escape is genius by the way, but intestines are slippery and prone to leak stuff that we really do not want to think about or encounter.
Book two is also very well done, and has the five of five stars recommendation. Just like the first one this one is well written and very well drawn, with traces of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, I am hoping that the goth scene picks this one up and turns it into an amazing classic hit comic book. This is well worth picking up in its paper format, one for reading, one for collecting. Overall I am really enjoying this series, and it is so worth reading and enjoying.
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