Comic Book Review: Penny for Your Soul #1

Penny for Your Soul #1

Story by: Tom Hutchison
Art by: J. B. Neto
Colors by: Oren Kramek
Publisher: Big Dog Ink
Cover Price: $3.00

Las Vegas is known as "Sin City" thanks to the proliferation of entertainments carefully regulated everywhere else: gambling, booze, and adult entertainment including legal prostitution. So it's natural that Danica, daughter of Satan, sets up shop there with a Hotel and Casino resort called the Eternity Hotel.

In the Eternity Hotel, Danica offers all of the vices Las Vegas has to offer. Decadent food is readily available, a casino for gambling, a strip club, and Sin Suites with beautiful women to fulfill your every desire. And don't worry about money because the Eternity will hook you up with $10,000. All you have to do is...sell your soul.

Writer Tom Hutchison has created an environment perfect to take a critical look at the American moral compass, religion, and the enticement of sin. Danica's hotel manager is Mary Magdalene, still hung up on Jesus, who has apparently left Heaven to become a radio personality. However, Hutchison does not limit himself to simple morality tales and humorous twists on religious figures.

See, Danica's not running the Eternity Hotel for daddy. Basically, in the war for the souls of man between Heaven and Hell, Danica and the Eternity has become a third party competitor. The question is, what will happen when Heaven and Hell discover what she's doing?

To show off the decadence of the Eternity Hotel and the beauty of the scantily clad employees, J. B. Neto steps up and scores 21 with his pencils complimented by Oren Kramek's colors. If you like your cheesecake, this is the book for you.

So, come on, don't pretend. Half naked women, funny riffs on religious figures, devils (and you have to figure angels are coming), and drama all beautifully illustrated. You know you want it. It comes out in May, so ask your shop to order you a copy. It only costs $3.00...not your soul.