It’s the mid-2000s, but not quite as we know it. Though familiar elements abound (ska remains a blight on the musical tastes of a generation), it’s also a world in which portals had opened a few decades prior, spilling all manner of supernatural entities into our world, as well as allowing humans access to hellish dimensions, just in case your favourite holiday destination wasn’t hot enough for you.

Teenage friends Victor, Miri and Reeves decide to give their summer vacation a spectacular ending, and buy a cheap demon summoning kit from a somewhat unreliable friend. Though they’re successful, the demon they bring forth from the underworld is an absolute pain in the ass. Can they learn to live with their own, personal demon? They have very little choice, seeing as he’s bound to their souls for eternity…

This is such a fun comic, with a setting that’s at once unique and nostalgically familiar. It’s got lovely, clean and colourful, really expressive artwork by Ray Nadine, and the script (by Jordan Alsaqa) is full of funny, farcical little moments that do a great job of wringing the comedy from having to deal with a demon that you don’t want, but who can’t actually leave. It’s an enjoyable story, told with a light touch, and it’s a really breezy read.

Though this issue climaxes with a caption stating ‘The End’, further issues have followed, so I’m looking forward to catching up with those and seeing where the story takes our three friends, and their demon buddy, as it progresses.

Raise Hell is a Comixology exclusive; you can check out and download it from Amazon here.