Damnation

Damnation is the debut comic of independent writer and illustrator Rees Finlay. The comic has a theme of horror to it and is rather personal to the writer and thus making the read a lot more enticing being able to see not only inside the minds of characters but also to see inside the mind of the writer.

The style of the comic is very dark and gritty in detail with the artwork similar to that of comics like The Walking Dead with its greyscale effects. Although it is not only the art style that is dark and gritty but the storyline has the sense of not knowing what will happen on the next page with all its sick, twisted but truly clever turns.

At first after reading the introduction and the first couple of pages you think that it will be filled with classic British humour, or sarcasm as some may call it, but then as you travel deeper in to the comic you realise the writer has lured you in to a false sense of security and it has suddenly took a turn from the British humour to something a lot darker that you will find yourself laughing rather sinisterly at.

Over all I found that the comic was a one way trip to the darkest parts of the characters but ourselves, which is in fact is not that bad. It also gives you the sense of wanting the character to achieve more in life, but at the same time see him suffer an eternity of damnation. The comic is now available for pre order on Amazon for Kindle and hard copies will be available shortly, the writer was kind enough to send me an earlier copy and I would highly recommend it to any fans of sinister tales.