So are you all ready for the climax to this pulse pounding tale, true believers? I know I am! So what happens next! With all these flash backs and story telling's I'm glad to be getting back to the actual plot of the story. Fuck, it's like the writer had attention deficit disorder or something.

So after story time is over, Tala appears and decides to play miss exposition. I got to love how the writers still try to plug her into the stories to be vaguely responsible for the super natural evil that was going on in any particular story. On top of all the flashback tales, it makes the story seem even more rushed to reach a conclusions. There is only so many characters and story you can cram in 21 pages don't you know?

Anyway, Tala fingers one of the old ladies that lives in the house and says that she is responsible for the haunting. When questioned why she would summon evil forces to haunt there house she blames it on her sister always eating the pistachio ice cream and leaving her the chocolate ice cream.

Now when most normal people would either start serving their own fucking ice cream, buying their own supply or god-fucking-forbid it, say something about their dislike of chocolate ice cream, this woman takes her fathers old book of spells and uses it to terrorize her sister.

So you're summoning demons from hell to attack your sister because you don't like the desert she gives you after dinner? Somebody should be looking into doing some fucking therapy or something! Man, if I were either Dr. Thirteen or Phantom Stranger, I'd be fucking strangling this woman's throat. Not only just for wasting my fucking time, but for invoking dark spirits over something so fucking stupid!

What do they do instead? They order her to pull out the book which they promptly throw into the fire place causing all the demons (and Tala) to disappear. Her punishment? Being sent up to her room like a child without her supper while everyone enjoys a nice helping of pistachio ice cream.

When everyone is about to eat desert they find that the everyone's pistachio ice cream has been changed into chocolate, and that sister is up in her room with a copy machine and many copies of the spell book they just burnt.

.... So if there is anything I've learnt from reading this story is that the most potently powerful evil magic is usually left in the hands of really stupid people. This is fucking great.

Anyway, this concludes this review, if you're interested in reading this and other Phantom Stranger stories without breaking your piggy bank, go out and get yourself a copy of Showcase Presents: Phantom Stranger Vol 1. Available wherever fine books are sold (what the fuck does that mean anyway?)