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It was yesterday, and I was in a hurry. My ride
needed to leave and I needed to find a comic book to
review this month for the Collector Times.
Frantically my eyes swept over the comics at the back
of the store searching for a book that might be fun to
read. My eyes lit upon the title Route 666. The
latest issue had a policeman-esque badge that said
"Patrolman: Perdition 'Abadon All Hope' " .
I thought now this looks hokey enough. I bought it and our
subscription books and out the door I went. This is a very
cool book. Im considering adding it to our already
very long pull list. The thing I liked about this
issue is that it was able to explain what happened in
the previous issues without seeming redundant. Its
so rare nowadays that you can actually pick up a book
randomly and be able to fully understand it. Though
I must admit that Im getting awfully sick of everyone
and his brother thinking the most original and witty
name for their female psychic character is Cassandra.
I like literary illusions as much as the next literary
nerd, but its getting old people.
The book opens with an old war veteran with a fake
heart valve, glass eye, metal plate in his head,
trying to complain to the big wigs of his health
insurance company that his medicine has been denied.
The secretary sends him in to the board of advisors with their
dinner to talk to the president of the company.
Little does he know he IS dinner. Seconds later you
flash to a lonely man with stubble whos busy watching
some quasi-50s television show. As he starts to
sleep, the show gets weirder and creepier until he
wakes up. When he wakes he finds Cassie in his house.
Shes been seeking spooky thinks like weremen, and
other not so good horror b-film things. She begs the
man with stubble, who turns out to be a country
sheriff to help her despite the fact that last time
she saw the sheriff his son died. When Cassie goes to
sleep the sheriff calls the NBI to come pick her up
and maybe help her.
Little does he know that the NBI is a front for the
board of directors of the "health care company."
Perdition is a group of ghouls who have infiltrated
human society. Cassie can see through all of their
guises and for this they have decided to kill her. So
once the sheriff calls in to the NBI the board of
spooky creatures comes personally to collect Cassie.
The art is very horror pulpish and highly appropriate
for the story. I recommend that you go pick up Route
666 as soon as you can. Its a great book!
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