42 review for The Comics Go to Hell: A Visual History of the Devil in Comics

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   4 out of 5

   Lynda – May 03, 2022

   I really enjoyed this.

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   4 out of 5

   David James – Oct 10, 2011

   It's a well known fact that the Devil is a hell of a lot more fun than God, and that's one of the reasons he makes far more appearances in art and literature than the presumed good guy. Comics combine art and literature in a low brow sort of way, and the Devil has been careening through them pretty much from the start. This collection of images drawn from a wide range of comics, and even reaching back into medieval times, offers a breezy overview of how humans, particularly in the West, conceive It's a well known fact that the Devil is a hell of a lot more fun than God, and that's one of the reasons he makes far more appearances in art and literature than the presumed good guy. Comics combine art and literature in a low brow sort of way, and the Devil has been careening through them pretty much from the start. This collection of images drawn from a wide range of comics, and even reaching back into medieval times, offers a breezy overview of how humans, particularly in the West, conceive of Satan. It's a fun book, easily read in one sitting, and one needn't be a comic book geek to enjoy it. The book would earn four stars except for one drawback: it's horribly edited. Typos abound, words are clearly missing from the text, and early on the creation of the Persian Devil under Zoroastrianism is mistakenly placed in 1000 A.D. Yikes. That should have been B.C. (or, to be more in keeping with present dating, B.C.E.) Additionally, the reproduced pages would have worked better if they had been printed in color, and one of the reproductions was shrunk so much to fit the small size of the book that I needed a magnifying glass to read the text (and I have perfect eyesight). This isn't to say that the book isn't worth reading. It's quite enjoyable. But the presentation comes up short, and that's unfortunate, because Satan is one of the best characters to found in comics or anywhere else. The author has done well; it's Fantagraphics Books that needed to put more into this one.

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   5 out of 5

   A. David Lewis –

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   4 out of 5

   Jason Harrigan –

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   5 out of 5

   Paul Monaghan –

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   4 out of 5

   Rick –

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   4 out of 5

   Adiputra Singgih –

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   5 out of 5

   Stewart Tame –

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   5 out of 5

   Lee –

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    5 out of 5

    Str8ev –

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    4 out of 5

    Eugene –

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    4 out of 5

    Austin Culver –

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    4 out of 5

    MJKF –

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    5 out of 5

    Morbus Iff –

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    4 out of 5

    Bob Bradshaw –

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    4 out of 5

    Hal Johnson –

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    5 out of 5

    Freda –

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    5 out of 5

    Robert Beerbohm –

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    4 out of 5

    S.E. Martens –

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    4 out of 5

    Logan Dalton –

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    4 out of 5

    John –

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    4 out of 5

    Dennis G –

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    5 out of 5

    Jen –

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    5 out of 5

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    4 out of 5

    Audrey –

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    5 out of 5

    Ricky –

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    5 out of 5

    Alma –

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    4 out of 5

    Brad –

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    4 out of 5

    Titus Hjelm –

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    4 out of 5

    Chad –

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    4 out of 5

    Sharon –

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    4 out of 5

    Warren Moeckel –

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    4 out of 5

    Caroline Martin –

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    4 out of 5

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    5 out of 5

    Wikimedia Italia –

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    5 out of 5

    Matt –

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    5 out of 5

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    5 out of 5

    Afrina Emmaressem –

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    4 out of 5

    Martin Lund –

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    4 out of 5

    Lauren Bishop –

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    4 out of 5

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    4 out of 5

    Laurel Narizny –