GUITAR-SLINGING, DEMON-RAISING, AND WHORE-HOPPING: A review of STAR #2

Writer Brian John Mitchell and artist Kurt Dinse have done it again with their new mini-comic, STAR #2. Everyone’s favorite guitar-slinger is back in yet another sex-and-demon-fueled adventure. Unsurprisingly, this one starts out with our hero tied down by the woman he’d picked up for a one night stand. She apparently didn’t plan on him waking up too soon, and she seems to be calling down a demon in this cheap motel room.



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This book is a work of sheer genius. It’s no bigger than a baby’s hand, and there’s a panel a page. This is quite possibly the only way to guarantee someone with ADD will read your book. Your attention can’t possibly wander, even if every page was full of shit (and this one most certainly isn’t).


Mitchell mixes up a brew of Lovecraft and John Constantine while Dinse throws in a healthy helping of his own Richard Corben-ish work. The scene where the narrator breaks the woman’s protective circle is pure gold. And when he’s pondering his situation, realizing how impressive this woman is, his only thought is, “Where was she ten years ago when I was into this shit?”


Read more at www.silbermedia.com/star You won’t be disappointed.