The Chatterer Cenobite looms large over this tale of toxic masculinity and looksmaxxing, as he’s reborn to collect the next solver of the puzzle box.

You’ve got to hand it to Boom here; it’s very ballsy of them to refer to masturbation directly in the title of a Hellraiser comic, and feels perhaps more on brand as a Clive Barker-derived story than any other Hellraiser comic has for a long time, if ever.

The themes of sex, death, pain and pleasures of the flesh really help to give it an authentic-Barker vibe, but it’s let down by art that can lack clarity and detail at times, as well as a page count that’s far too brief.

There are, however, some great moments with references to Hellraiser II again, but also very surprisingly direct references to Hellraiser III and the much lambasted pseudo-cenobites it features. The looksmaxxer/incel/streamer character makes it feel like a painfully relevant story too. And though he doesn’t have a beard, the same coloured or even long hair, the resemblance to Asmongold in the streamer’s face is somewhat uncanny.

It’s definitely a stronger issue than the first, and we still have three more of these one-shots to go before Boom launch into their Hellraiser ongoing series.

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