Ryan O’Sullivan is a quality writer his Void Trip was a great little series.Â Here, there is an element of self-awareness to the writing an awareness that is used to discuss and comment on the reading experience and expectation.Â Its a brave choice as if read in the wrong frame of mind, a reader could feel a little patronised to say the least.Â In reality, its Henry’s monologue which goes someway to extol his less than noble virtues.Â Through the journey we get to see the lengths Henry will go to to achieve what he feel is his right to have.Â One of the strengths of the book is that we get to see Henry’s interactions with his not quite social group which serves as a contrast to what he thinks is going on, essentially letting the reader in on the secret. Henry is a bit of pretentious sort, often over elaborating his perceptions of his rather insular world with an equally over inflating opinion of self worth.Â A friend of a successful author, Henry is realistically living off charity in both his personal and professional life.Â With Henry’s skewed perceptions quickly becoming his reality, he takes steps that brings The Muse into his life which leads him into the Fearscape.Â Well, maybe not him exactly. Once we have overcome our fears, be it spiders, ghosts or something worse, where do they go? Do they lie in wait for then next unsuspecting soul or do they live a life of abject failure, destined to be relegated to the quiet corners of the night?Â This is the question that Ryan O’Sullivan is posing in this new creator owned book from Vault Comics.

Fearscape by Ryan O'Sullivan