Smiley the Psychotic Button #1
Written by Mike Raicht
Art by Juanan Ramirez, Rod Rodolfo
Published by Dynamite Comics
If you’re going to walk the by now well-tread path of Faustian bargains (or any other narrative relying on the same old Judeo-Christian concepts of good and evil generally), you’d better bring something new to it.
Dynamite’s Smiley the Psychotic Button one-shot trafficks in that stuff and, while writer Mike Raicht hits a few welcome grace notes, he ultimately fails to create anything terribly original.
It’s mainly an origin story for Evil Ernie’s comic relief sidekick, who we’re told was once Richard Smiley, architect of a fast food empire that, as he says, became “Bigger than the clown or the king” with the helpful hand of Lucifer.
The price of Smiley’s success was, of course, an obligation to deliver souls, and this is where Raicht...
Written by Mike Raicht
Art by Juanan Ramirez, Rod Rodolfo
Published by Dynamite Comics
If you’re going to walk the by now well-tread path of Faustian bargains (or any other narrative relying on the same old Judeo-Christian concepts of good and evil generally), you’d better bring something new to it.
Dynamite’s Smiley the Psychotic Button one-shot trafficks in that stuff and, while writer Mike Raicht hits a few welcome grace notes, he ultimately fails to create anything terribly original.
It’s mainly an origin story for Evil Ernie’s comic relief sidekick, who we’re told was once Richard Smiley, architect of a fast food empire that, as he says, became “Bigger than the clown or the king” with the helpful hand of Lucifer.
The price of Smiley’s success was, of course, an obligation to deliver souls, and this is where Raicht...
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