It’s a fact of life, you can’t please everybody. It’s also a fact that the job of the critic is easier than the job of the artist. Well, I’m a critic, and I wasn’t very pleased with Dread Delusion. In fact, I was so unpleased with it, I gave it a 4/10. One of the lowest scores I’ve ever handed out.
And then, at PAX West, I met James Wragg, the creative director of Dread Delusion and founder of Lovely Hellplace. Of all of the people I met at PAX, this was the discussion that I was most excited for, and the one I was most nervous for. After all, why should James give me the time of day? He, and a collection of a great many developers, put their hearts into Dread Delusion, worked for years on it, and then I came along and gave it what is, to date, its lowest score on OpenCritic.
To complicate things, in the time since I gave Dread Delusion a 4/10, I’d come to be quite a fan of James Wragg’s other work. The comics available on his website are some of the most fascinating surrealist works I’ve come across online in...
