Ben Templesmith

Squidder #2 Written and Illustrated by Ben Templesmith Published by IDW It would be a bit of an understatement to say that this series has a developed mythos. It’s dense, for lack of a better word. This isn’t a problem, although it does mean that we spend a great deal of time trying to understand …

In the future, man is being terrorized by sentient squid monsters demanding human sacrifices. Even writing that, I would normally laugh at the ridiculousness of that statement. Yet something about this comic book doesn’t make me want to laugh derisively at it. Indeed, the more I read, the more I found myself becoming engrossed in the story and the general concept.