Another cheat read I picked up purely for the title.
It is almost as subtle as the title suggests. The plot, surprisingly, revolves around a monster killing children in small town America.
Enter Erica Slaughter, a mysterious monster hunter with a toy octopus that advises her along the way - not always reliably...
It's good fun to read. There are shades of the story of Grendel and Beowulf. There are hints at a secret society she works for who may or may not be entirely working for the public good (even though she certainly is on the side of stopping giant monster eating children herself). Misunderstandings with the locals make her job more complicated than it should be.
The artwork ranges from pretty damned good to wild and wacky to purely functional to not very good in places (what is with the boy's nose in the flashback to the first set of killings at the end of chapter 1?).
The layout is occasionally confusing, switching randomly from individual pages to having to read straight across the double page spread as if it was one page.
However those are minor niggles and I will be seeking out volume 2 for some more uncomplicated violent fun.
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