Comic review: Sheltered #14- Falling into the mainstream consensus

Story by: Ed Brisson
Art by: Johnnie Christmas
Publisher: Image Comics
Released: 11th February 2015


If that was the end then it had nothing.

Hang on. I’ll check.

No, it’s the penultimate issue, but why bother with another one?

Unless you have something, anything other than another cult story with a charismatic leader then why even bother?

Burn it down lads.

I say this about the final issue, and the entire series as a whole. I’ve been waiting for so long now, so long for this story to do something interesting. A twist, a turn, something, anything, and I’ve been so patient, so stupid really, buying the book month after month expecting something, and now I have one issue left, and I’m still stupidly hoping for this book to do something that makes it all worthwhile.

What do you reckon?

Issue #14 of Sheltered does what you would expect it to do. It does what happens at the end of EVERY cult story. No surprises, at all, no deeper meaning than cult baaaaaad, cult leader charismatic and baaaaaaad.

Is the government not a cult? Are the Police, army and major world religions not a cult?

Well, yes, but let’s not talk about it here. Let’s pretend that the biggest cult problem we have in the world today is preppers and right wing gun ‘nuts.'

And so nothing is learnt. The status quo consensus that is slavery to statism is maintained. No questioning. Nothing, nothing, nothing.

Don’t you think it would be funny that if in issue #15 of Sheltered it turns out that not everything was as it appeared, and that this formulaic cult story had something to say, and it was just waiting until the very end to say it?

Wouldn’t I look stupid if that happened?

Please, please, please, make me look stupid.

I need to look stupid.

If I don’t, then this entire series has been a complete and utter waste of time.


Rating: 5/10 (logical dull ending, nice art and colouring)