I never really got the appeal of torture porn horror movie franchises like Saw and Hostel, but here's one for comics. Much gore and very graphic human mutilations occur over and over again in this world of dark web snuff films. Creator Ed Piskor states repeatedly that he is much influenced by the storytelling of David Lapham's Stray Bullets, so the stories are told out of order with recurring characters stalking to the front or shuffling into the background.

The basic set-up is that there are four clandestine movie studios competing for anonymous viewers' bitcoins, trying to one-up each other with the best and most theatrical killers disfiguring and murdering the most appealing victims. There are a couple of clever little twists and tributes to EC Comics and other influences, but it's mostly all about the gore. Gore, and more gore, until it's a bore.

Not sure I would bother with future installments. ( )