According
to Dark Horse's blurb, VERMIN kicks off their
AUTUMNAL series of "six stories intended
to scare the pants off you."
Hmmm...more
like six stories to bore the pants off you, if this is opening installment
is anything to go by.
Leaving
the rat-infested Angel Investigations behind, Cordelia's vision leads
Angel to explore a derelict amusement park in search of a kidnapped young
girl.
Of
course, what Angel doesn't know but the reader does, is that this park
is home to some sort of demonic vermin infestation, called up by a fortune
teller in 1956.
And,
err, that's about it for the first part. There's a possible inference
of child abuse amongst the kidnappers and we don't know what happened
to the two pest exterminators in the 1978 sequence (and whether it's a
coincidence that 22 years separates that year from both 1956 and 2000),
but that's about it.
A
couple of things also seem a little derivative. The difficulty of drawing
new monsters is shown by the one at the start, who seems like the sort
that's cropped up a few times in the comics and the ending doesn't seem
all that different from one of the cliffhangers to the LOVELY,
DARK AND DEEP story in DARK HORSE PRESENTS.
A
fairly uninspiring story from Golden and Sniegoski, and the artwork doesn't
really help matters much either.
