Ennis plays to Avatars strengths as a publisher here by establishing a dark, anything-goes tone without really doing anything particularly gross or disturbing so much as strange and intense. Thats not to say its not coming, and I'm sure that Ennis is going to play around with a few tropes and keep things riveting. I have an uneasy curiosity to see what happens next, and that means the first issue did its job nicely. 8.5 out of 10.