Category: Nancy in Hell
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The issue takes a while. Torres paces it well and he pads it out a little. There’s a lot of confusing narration from the bad guy to muddle through. But it’s worth it. Even with the weak plotting, undercooked characters and Lorenzana’s underwhelming artwork, On Earth makes it. Why? Because Torres has got a great…
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I didn’t get it last issue, but some of the death row inmates are stand-ins. I noticed Danny Trejo and Quentin Tarantino. Sadly, I noticed them on some of the multiple full page spreads. There are four or five of them in the issue, which isn’t good. Lorenzana doesn’t compose those shots well. He can’t…
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I’m not sure Nancy in Hell could exist without Garth Ennis. Torres isn’t ripping him off precisely, just his approach (and attitude) to afterlife stuff. It’s just derivative and it’s a fine derivation. Torres bypasses most of the previous issue’s problems–the annoying cop ceases to be annoying with Nancy around to drive the story. She’s…
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For some reason, El Torres thinks the reader needs two recaps of the previous series, so Nancy in Hell On Earth takes a while to get started. There’s a little with the bad guy getting the job of lording over Earth’s destruction, but he also recaps the end of the last series. It’d be more…
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For the last issue, Torres decides he needs a twist ending—no spoilers, but it’s the weakest of all possible twist endings. The ending I was hoping for, one setting up an awesome sequel, does not come to pass. Ryp returns for the final two page spread. It would have been nice to have him the…
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Nancy in Hell loses Juan Jose Ryp… and, really, it doesn’t make much difference. Oh, the art from Malaka Studio (no one is singled out) and Antonio Vasquez is fairly bad, but they follow Ryp’s initial ideas. Busty girl, big buff surfer dude, lots of gross stuff in Hell. In some ways, the art this…
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More than a third of this issue is a history of Lucifer in the Nancy in Hell universe. Torres raises some interesting points—Lucifer’s just a spoke in the wheel because he never had free will. It’s an interesting moment when he realizes no matter what he does, he can’t really make a decision for himself…
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So is the title, Nancy in Hell, a reference to Nightmare on Elm Street? Torres opens with that the titular Nancy in the middle of a monologue comparing herself to an eighties horror movie star. Maybe I’m over thinking it. Because Nancy in Hell does not offer much in the way of story or inventiveness.…
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