There is one criticism of smallpress comics that I use more than any other, one that is almost universally applicable. When it comes to reviewing something I find myself time and time again saying "yes well, the art is very good, shame about the story".
Again with this comic the art is fantastic, very well stylised, distinctive, very professional looking inside (the cover could do with some more thought regards layout) with gorgeous quality paper (I have a thing for comics with a good 'feel' to them). And it's not that this story is bad at all, it's amusing and lighthearted; The plot revolving around a bar for the undead and a mysterious Banshee woman who arrives looking for a job, not the most original thing ever (undead behaving like soap characters), but one of the better examples of its type.
My criticism then, in this case is not specific. It applies to most smallpress, and that is that it's alright, but a bit, well, boring.
People seem to think that 20 pages isn't enough to tell a decent story, that we can have a set-up, middle, or finale, but no more than one of those. And because fo this the comics have no structure, there is no reward for following the story through because by the end of the comic nothing has actually happened (this problem is also evident in Tales from the Flat, much as I enjoy it, it gets frustrating waiting 5 issues for the big fight scene you realy needed in issue one or two to drag the reader in). There is no action.
What happened to the days of the O Men, where in the first issue we were introduced to a bunch of interesting characters and then watched as half of them were promptly murdered? Martin Eden sacrificed no subtle characterisation for that, I felt in two pages more interest in one of his characters than 90 percent of the comic heroes I have been introduced to since. I feel exhausted after I finish an issue with him, I feel like I've BEEN somewhere. It's that ability to create real protagonists without having to spend 20 pages doing so, that makes Martin such a damn good writer. (He hasn't paid me to write this by the way.)
It's all very well taking time over characters, giving them depth, but if nothing happens in that issue because of it, it's a waste of time because I won't come back for more... A bit like LOST.
That said, I quite enjoyed these comics and hope something happens in future issues to keep readers buying them.