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Overall Opinion: Easy read, very creepy. Strong HP Lovecraft inspiration.

Story: 6/10. Decent horror story. It's not really explained, but that is in keeping with the motif of horror: over-explaining is bad, mystery is good.

Characters: 7/10. The primary 2 characters are good self-inserts for a horror story. They are trapped in an insane world and behave in realistic ways trying to cope with it/try to escape it. They are believable, and you mostly empathize with them. I don't recall at any point thinking to myself, "Why is this idiot going into that door right now instead ... of running?" like you do with some horror MOVIES.

Themes: 7/10. Body horror, insanity, recurring visual themes.

Art: 8/10. Disgusting in a good way. Characters and backgrounds are about average, but the centerpieces are always well done and memorable.

Overall Opinion: I got nothing out of it.

Story: 2/10. Was there a story? Not sure I noticed it. A bunch of violent things happen TO people or BECAUSE of people. They brood about it. For the first 20 pages, I was so confused I was starting to think that the pages had been connected in the wrong order by mistake. I didn't get much clarity as I progressed to the end.

Characters: 3/10. Completely unlikable, can't relate to any, can't understand the motivations of any, most behave in unrealistic ways. 85% of the ... time, any given character is just somber and brooding, regardless of what is happening around them.

Themes: 3/10. Violence when you're young tends to screw you up when you are older too, I guess? (Not exactly groundbreaking.) Butterflies are pretty? Ending made some attempt at being deep, but it was lost on me. You could say 'depression' is a theme, but when every single character in your story is depressed with no contrast to other states of mind, it's not really a theme anymore, just business as usual.

Art: 7/10. Not the best by any stretch, but pretty darn good. There were a couple of really memorable panels, like one panel with a bunch of kids poking their heads over some kind of open sewer grate. The view from below almost makes them look like a puzzle piece--not sure if it was intentional, but it was great. Some good stuff with lighting. Characters look pretty good.