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I rolled up to the comic shop and headed straight over to the "new comics" section with the sole intention of getting an issue #1 of something. I maybe should have done a bit of research first but felt like I wanted to take myself back to days before the internet where if you wanted to buy something you went in a shop and you bought it.

10 minutes later I leave the shop with an issue #1 of Channel Evil. I'll admit it, I'm a cheap whore who was totally seduced by the bold 3 colour cover and the black white art work which I would describe as a glossy version of Sin City. Its written by Alan Grant & the art is by Shane Oakley, at this point I guess I should be saying something about what they have done before but in all honesty I have no idea and no inclination to do any reaserch.

The premise in someone else's words:

A slick and sleazy television chat show host gets more than he bargained for when he channels an ancient source of evil, unleashing terror and carnage upon the world!

All the characters in this are clichéd to fuck. I mean you have the crass arse hole chat show host sceptical of everything, his sweet girl friend who gets him into something he doesn't believe in and the quietly confident clairvoyant. Not even half way in you can pretty much work exactly where this issue is going, and really this reads like a bad episode of Tales from the Crypt. When I started this review I thought that it had one saving grace and that was, that I wanted to see what they do with it. Where it goes and if the clichéd beginning was deliberate to set up the reader into thinking it will be a of processed cheese, but then flipping it on 'em and that be the twist in the tale. I'm not so sure now, I generally try to give something the benefit of the doubt particularly when you are only one issue in and I want to believe this is going to get better but I'm not so sure it will.

At this stage I don't know if I will buy another issue. I think I will just to give it a chance and to settle in with the story. I didn't like Proof "that much" 1 issue in but after issue 2 was hooked so there is precedent. Also this is only a 4 parter so maybe as a quick short it will be OK once I'm into it.

On the whole I would say this was disappointing but not total clown shoes.