 Thank you for checking out the fifth episode of should you read and this one is for should you read hellraiser the hellraiser comic That is by boom studios and the short answer of it is yes You should read that if you're into hellraiser and stuff like that One of the great things about this particular property Besides the artwork the artwork is really cool because it's more of like it It's kind of like dirty messy type art not not very clean Which goes really well with the horror feel especially with a hellraiser feel I Would recommend that you be actually be pretty familiar with hellraiser Well At least the hellbound heart the the short book by by Clive Barker But the movies help too because this comic actually picks up after the second movie Which is one of the best things in my opinion because the every movie after the second is just garbage. It's just different degrees of garbage, but It progressively worse and worse and worse, but one and two awesome love one and two So for this to have picked up after that love it. That's it's a great choice. So story-wise really good There wasn't anything stupid with it I kind of saw this and I was like a hellraiser comic it might be kind of dumb They might kind of just rehash a lot of the stuff that's already been done But no Clive Barker's a writer on this he steps in and he keeps the story going is making it fresh And it's really cool. I think he only stays on for about the first 10 issues But I'm not a hundred percent on that I do know that at some point he drops out because I looked ahead and was like I should I be buying this so the writing team does change at some point But first far as I read it was Clive Barker involved and it was really good But I'm also like a really big hellraiser fan and you know pinheads like my favorite Pinhead and and the tall man from phantasm are my favorite movie horror movie villains. So Love it One of the cool things about it is it introduces this idea of a group called the Harrowers Now this isn't really spoiling much because that's introduced like pretty much immediately But the Harrowers are basically just like a group of people who have survived Pinhead and encounters with pinhead, but then they're also trying to track him down. So that's as much as I'm gonna tell you and That alone if you're a hellraiser fan should grab you like oh my god, that makes me want to read this because It's such a cool concept You know like these people who have been running from pinhead are now turning around and being like oh we formed this group and we've been talking about this now we're gonna go after him we're gonna get him and There's just so much excitement there. So I haven't purchased this yet I I have been toying with the fact the idea of purchasing this. It's not my hundred percent Favorite comic there are comics. I like a lot more like I said, I really like the writing in this But from a more objective standpoint It's it's not the best writing. It's not the best artwork. It's not the best comic So I did grade it a little bit low I gave it three stars out of five on comicsology, but if I could give it that You know if I did do halves I would give it like a three and a half So it's a little bit closer to a four, but I can't give it a four It's not quite there, but I really like it. So I Definitely recommend it mainly for people who are into horror and especially for people who really know the hellraiser story You might not want to get into it if you don't know the hellraiser story yet because you just might be kind of lost to be honest Yeah, I mean maybe you could kind of be stick with it for a little bit But I feel like you'd be kind of lost But anyway, that's pretty much all I have to say about it really fun really interesting if you love horror and you love Hellraiser it's for you Pinhead is great in it the story loving it with Clive Barker So little hesitant about when Clive Barker ends up dropping out of the issues whenever I would get to that point But at some point I think I'm gonna, you know stick with that go back to it and and try and go as far as I can So anyway, everyone. Thank you for checking this out stick around for the next one check out some of the back episodes And if you have any suggestions, you can send me a email at brutal battle podcast at gmail.com And brutal is b-r-e-w-t-a-l once again brutal battle podcast at gmail.com, but until next time keep it brutal