Hell Is Too Good For Him (comic story)
Hell Is Too Good For Him was the a comic created by Paul Hoppe. Originally printed in 2010 in Issue 12 of the zine Rabid Rabbit, it was integrated in 2012 into the run of the webcomic The Cosmic Beholder, which prominently featured “Jenny Everywhere” (really Jenny Nowhere posing as her) as part of the Odds. The main character of Hell Is Too Good For Him was picked up by the next Cosmic Beholder story, where he joined the Odds himself.
Contents
Plot
The demoness Mephista tells the story of Armstrong Fatbuckle, the so-called “Worst Man in the World”. A rude and drunken libertine, Fatbuckle dies in a car crash after a particularly spirited party and naturally ended up in Hell. However, he soon proves just as much of a chaotic and offensive nuisance to the Devil as he had been to all his hosts in life — up to an including sleeping with the Devil's own consort Mephista. Outraged, the Devil bans Fatbuckle from Hell, sending him back to Earth as an undead skeleton. More or less unphased, Fatbuckle soon resumes his fine life as a skeleton (even if he regrets that he can no longer enjoy the pleasures of the flesh and merely has to make do with partying and dancing for their own sake).
Worldbuilding
Universes
- This story takes place all in one universe, later named as Reality Z-25 31-H. Its Hell is prominently featured, and it is suggested that it merely exists underground, beneath the Earth.
Other
Continuity
- The events of this story were retroactively tied into the storyline of Captain Evening and the Odds in COMIC: For Whom The Toll Bells, which picked up more or less where Hell Is Too Good For Him left off.
- Jenny Everywhere previously met the Devil in COMIC: Jenny Everywhere Vs Hell.
Behind the scenes
Read online
As well as having been printed in Rabid Rabbit #12, Hell Is Too Good For Him is available online on the Cosmic Beholder blog.
