A flashback sequence kicks off the eighth issue of Ringside, filling us in on how Danny and Reynolds are connected to the desperate promoter we were introduced to in the previous issue.

Which is helpful, because he’s about to come knocking – and he’s desperately looking for Danny to get him out of his current financial predicament.

Yet Danny has problems of his own; his job for Eduardo is turning out to, perhaps unsurprisingly, be a nightmare – and there’s also the fact that he’s seemingly being betrayed by someone very close to him.

Not that he knows that yet, of course.

There’s a sense that all of the characters featured in Ringside are going to end up in their own personal hell, one way or another and some sooner than others.

It’s definitely pretty damn downbeat, yet incredibly compelling.

It still surprises me that Ringside has yet to be optioned for a TV series; its crime drama, neo noir style, coupled with a wrestling adjacent setting, gives it a really unique feel and it’d translate to the screen brilliantly in the right hands.

Regardless of that, it’s a phenomenally well written and brilliantly illustrated comic; I’ll keep banging the drum about it because Ringside really doesn’t get the attention or acclaim it deserves.

Issue 8 is another superb read and, if you’ve never read Ringside before, what’s stopping you from picking it up and getting drawn into its dark and violent world for yourself?