With the premise of gentrification turning cannibalistic I was easily sold on picking up the 1st issue. Being a guro fan I had expected there to be more focus on horror and cannibalism, like we saw in the first few pages. Instead the story explored the more real every day horrors of poverty stricken communities, and their erasure by higher classes. At first I felt it was just playing out cliche tropes of addict homeless man, the world sucks, rich men suck, which are all valid, but the character of Arnold developed really well. The noir lady ghosting through the story was a nice touch too. I'd say it was successful for the direction it took. I enjoyed that the delusional Arnold's goals and reasoning were more clear to me than those of the cannibalistic normies. At first I was a bit frustrated with the way the last scene in La Mancha went down with not really giving much reason for the whole we eat the homeless now thing, but reading through again I realized it makes sense with the characters and themes. This last issue was the listo laced cherry on top of the Manny meat cake we've all been craving!