Tag: Malaka Studio

Nancy in Hell (2010) #4

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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 whole time, though I guess the replacements do all right. Once again, Malaka Studio and Antonio Vasquez do about the level of work I’d expect from this kind of thing. This issue has some monsters. I would have loved to see Ryp draw a monster.

Torres’s writing is at times too strong for it and too weak. His plotting is uninspired (the big reveal, like I said, is the weakest of all possible) but his actual writing in scene is quite good. Way too good for Nancy in Hell.

It’s disappointing, but still readable.

Nancy in Hell (2010) #3

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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 issue is more what I would have expected overall. Except Ryp was a little too classy for it.

But Torres again uses the series for his theological ruminations. Lucifer, he decides here, is really more like a moronic child. Without freewill, even his creations in Hell can boss him around, just like God used to do.

When Lucifer has his big moment—getting up the courage to act like a man and not a Ken doll—it works.

Unfortunately, as he props up Lucifer, Torres weeks Nancy bit by bit. She’s starting to get annoying.