This is a hard one to review. The concept is very cool: a bunch of college students wake up on an island with no memory of how they got there, and are immediately set upon by monsters - something out of a Clive Barker or H.R. Giger's head.
The art is violent and dark and confusing - and very vivid - but the story is confusing and jumps around between some sort of flashback of a 'doctor' (I think it involves nazis... but I can't tell) and then the survivors being chased around an abandoned town (amusement park and steel mill).
People get killed by mutant thingies, they meet up with another guy who was dumped there, and then more nightmares attack them.
Suddenly they're all split up, more people die... and I can't tell if they escape in a boat or not.
Then they meet old residents of the town who fled 30 years ago and came back to burn the place down.
Then more people die.
And ... one girl (apparently) lives.
uh... what?
Exactly.
I did go online to see if this was a stand-alone. It's not. But I can't find much info on the other 4?5? volumes.
Too much effort to even try to find the rest.
Which, as I said, sucks, because the art is gory-visceral-pretty.

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