Comments on: Another thing I don’t get why it isn’t reprinted and such

By: Rens

Rens — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:14:33 +0000

I saw parts of this once at one of the s_d incarnations. Unfortunately, as you’ve stated it’s out of print and not coming back.

Are you sure this was written by Ennis, btw? I could’ve sworn they mentioned Gaiman…

By: wtf

wtf — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:11:51 +0000

WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS MEAN?!?!?!?!?!

By: Crinos

Crinos — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:58:12 +0000

Wait, Ennis wrote that?

Okay then, so there’s TWO Super Heroes he likes.

I mean wow. He can bring the awesome when he wants too (and he isn’t driving it into the dirt that superheroes are assholes and raping Green Lantern).

By: mds

mds — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:49:47 +0000

Is it ironic that there’s an explicit message about Nazi racism, given that the Haunted Tank was haunted by a Confederate general? Or is that still Morisettian irony?

By: William George

William George — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:23:21 +0000

Ennis’ Demon is one of the best hidden gems of the last twenty years.

It was a pretty good run. The story above still shines like a lighthouse.

By: LurkerWithout

LurkerWithout — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:21:16 +0000

I love McCrea’s Etrigan. Just the weird scrawnyness of it…

By: Cordialatron

Cordialatron — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:57:44 +0000

For some reason I can only think of that Elseworlds where bearded Superman fights twin clones of Hitler with a gun that Cable would consider slightly too large.

By: Joe X

Joe X — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:42:49 +0000

Ennis’s Demon was great stuff. I think the only person at DC reading the book was the editor, so they got away with a lot of crap.

The whole run is 40-58, plus 0 and Annual 2 (first Hitman), and most of them can be found in quarter boxes.

By: PaulW

PaulW — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:12:44 +0000

The weakest part of the whole storyline was Etrigan’s rhymes. Juvenile, overt. I don’t think it’s in iambic either, the fiend.

By: Cookie McCool

Cookie McCool — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:07:44 +0000

I’m sorry, but The Demon’s rhymes are *not* tight. They’re pretty boring-ass AABB whitebread.

By: Zenrage

Zenrage — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:49:33 +0000

Speaking of Nazi zombies, have any of these shown up in the black lantern corps?

Has Hitler, Stalin, Caligula, Genghis Khan or Xerxes I been given a black power ring?

By: Burke

Burke — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:41:23 +0000

This is why I like reading the comics posts in your blogs. I get to hear about great moments of comicry I’d otherwise never even imagine existed. You do a public service, MGK.

By: NCallahan

NCallahan — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:36:42 +0000

I did not know Ennis wrote for The Demon. This is enlightening.

By: Tenken347

Tenken347 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:36:16 +0000

“Of course, it doesn’t help that every time the character has showed up in the intervening years it’s been horrible.”

Actually, I thought the Demon’s appearance in Arkham Asylum: Living Hell was pretty great.

By: Lash Lightning

Lash Lightning — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:13:37 +0000

Surely reprints of this and others of the same run would sell much more than the rather the “merely competent” stuff you mentioned earlier.

I mean, I’d buy it. Heck, that one page with the rhyming, verbal and physical smack-down the Demon gives that Nazi is worth the £12 alone.

Also, Rex and Etrigan wouldn’t fight. They’re BFF, like Hellboy and the Punisher.