Leiz delivers some beautifully detailed and visually dynamic art throughout the issue. I love the visual style and how brilliantly the horror and suspense are depicted in the story. Read Full Review

It Happened on Hyde Street: Devour is a heaping helping of a dish best served cold. The creators lay out a feast of the unfortunate pressure put upon women in terms of their weight. How the battle of the bulge is really the result of eating your feelings and swallowing your pride. So as she struggles to make her wedding dress weight, Lily is engulfed in her matriarch's struggle to be the perfect size. Read Full Review

Devour is a scary look on the dangers that come with our obsession to be thin and healthy. Read Full Review

In that sense this issue reads more like an episode of Tales From the Crypt. It is a solid twisted ending even if its not the most uplifting conclusion. Read Full Review

Its nice to see them branching out and really trying to develop Hyde Street into something that would be sort of a universal symbol for the bizarre and poor. Im trying to find a quaint little corner of the twilight zone on which to put a street like this. Its kind of a fun idea. And itll be interesting to see what they do. Moving forward. Because theres a lot that could happen on high Street. And its kind of cool to see a one shot that fits into the overall structure of the strange horror of it all. Read Full Review

This extra-length horror comic delivers a chilling tale perfect for the Halloween season. With its gruesome twists and haunting artwork, Devour showcases the terrifying potential of the Hyde Street series. Read Full Review

IT HAPPENED ON HYDE STREET: DEVOUR #1 is a perfectly average horror comic that uses the pressures of body image to give one of Hyde Street's collectors a vehicle to acquire souls. Maytal Zchut's tale of woe gets the job done, even if it suffers from poor pacing and a lack of surprise, and Leila Leiz's artwork is the highlight of the issue. Read Full Review

Ghost Machine continues to impress, this time with Maytal Zchut‘s scary and haunting tale that hits close to home for many of us. On Halloween, this book was definitely a “treat” to read!!!

Plot
This story goes back to 1983, the year when exercise videos and miracle diets were all the rage, where a woman named Bernice, who was going through a personal loss and had gained weight, desperately arrives at a supplement store she had never seen before, on a street she had never passed by... the street is called HYDE STREET.

In this store she meets Miss Goodbody, who recommends a supplement called Devour. At home she uses it secretly from her daughter Patricia.

The comic jumps to 2024, where Bernice's granddaughter and Patricia's daughter, named Lily, is about to get married but the wedding dress she chose does not fit her. Bernice and Patricia are extremely thin, not in a healthy way, Bernice makes a lot of criticisms of Lily's body, it is unpleasant and cruel body shaming.

With only 60 days to go until she gets married, Lily struggles to lose weight, but she does not do it at the pace she needs, so Bernice takes her to Miss Goodbody, who offers her the Devour container.

The contents of Devour are something out of this world that forces you to overeat because your life depends on it. Aunt Sheri suffers the consequences of not following this diet regimen.

This comic full of mystery, suspense and terror has a powerful message about self-acceptance, not all of us can be ultra thin, as long as we have a healthy weight that offers us peace and mental health, we should not continue comparing ourselves with stereotypes that are mostly lies. The script uses a stressful moment with which it is easy to identify in many ways, especially for any woman who wants to get married, where the pressure she receives is overwhelming and the family behaves in the worst way.

There are cameos from two key characters from Hyde Street, who are brilliant. This comic mixes terror with black humor and relevant topics like body shaming in a world parallel to ours.

Art
It's detailed and successfully captures two eras of contemporary history with aplomb, and through mesmerizing sequences and creepy splash pages, which are in turn supported by a gloomy tone, manage to make your skin crawl more than once and also make you uncomfortable. The art offers excellent definition of the anatomies that allows you to easily make comparisons.

Summary
Lily wants to get married but the stress is affecting her weight and her self-image, so her mother and grandmother take advantage of it to show her a creepy family secret.
Excellent comic to read on a dark Halloween night, with a well-rounded story. more

As far as horror comics go, this is fantastic. Hyde street may be my favorite ghost machine comic and we only have issue #1 and this to go by. That's damn fine storytelling if you ask me.