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• Price: $3.99
• Rating: 12+
  
• Pages: 34
• On Sale: April 18, 2018
• Writer: Lonnie Nadler & Zac Thompson
  
• Artist: Kyle Charles
  
• Colorist: Dee Cunniffe
• Letterer: Ryan Ferrier
• Publisher: Aftershock Comics

From the Publisher – A tale of loss told in five parts. Any good mom would march through the inferno of HELL to get her family back.

Unable to cope with the burden of grief, a middle-aged mom descends the nine circles of hell to retrieve her forsaken family. Guided by the ghosts of William Blake and Agatha Christie, this no-nonsense mother journeys deep into a bizarre underworld filled with celebrity sinners, surreal landscapes, and absurd tasks. HER INFERNAL DESCENT is a retelling of Dante’s Inferno that updates the themes for a modern audience.

From the writers of the break-out hit The Dregs, and the artist of Roche Limit, this is HELL like you’ve never seen before.

Our We Talk Comics WeView – When told in verse like William Blake, it does indeed a good tale make.

‘Tis rare when such a beautiful book, crosses my path and forces a look.

Story filled with wonder, from a heart rent asunder,

Comics the way they should be done, go pick it up, don’t walk… run!

Her Infernal Descent is not at all what I expected, and that is a good thing. It’s easy to anticipate some sort of Lady Death style book and that is usually what you get. This is a book with an emotional core! A journey into the darkness with someone who has nothing to lose, yet still holds on to her enduring sense of love. A literature lovers dream, this comic is filled with the shades of writers past, and the promise of so many more still to come.

Lonnie Nadler and Zac Thompson do a wonderful job of updating Dante’s Inferno. The depth of emotion of the main character (in this case the mother/wife) is nothing short of spectacular. The dialogue feels really true and honest, which is so important in a story like this. Firstly, writing in rhyme for characters is never easy and they certainly deserve praise for pulling off the William Blake style. But secondly, given the amount of literary characters in the book, it takes a real knack to be able to speak in their voices and be true to their writings.

It takes a great artist to make a messy kitchen into something truly amazing to behold and meaningful to the story. Kyle Charles brings that extra emotional connection with his art, and it really helps you to feel for the main character. There are some pages that he plays with the orientation of the panels and it works incredibly well given the story they are trying to tell. His rendition of Hell is teeming with characters and it’s awesome to try and name all the shades she meets on her journey. The coloring by Dee Cunniffe is muted and sombre in the beginning, but it really becomes special once we reach Hell, and the color scheme shifts radically. The look of Hell is both unexpected and incongruous with our normal expectations, which is what makes it so interesting to look at. The lettering by Ryan Ferrier is also a cut above. With so many different characters (and types of characters) speaking, it’s no small feat that he has managed to bring a different look to their many voices.

Her Infernal Descent is a special comic that manages to combine literature, character, and sequential art in one amazing package. While this isn’t a “fun” story, it is a beautiful story filled with wonderful characters and amazing scenery. If “The Dregs” by Nadler and Thompson is half as good as Her Infernal Descent then I’ll have to find that and move it to the top of my reading pile. Her Infernal Descent is storytelling at its finest, and one hell of a read. Highly recommended.

Rating – Near Mint (NM) or 9.5/10

Review by Brett

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