Everyone knows how obssesive fans can get about their favorite band or singer, you know cult favorites. . . but in this case, Wilkin’s fans are an actual cult thanks to Bingo’s deal with the devil.

Spoilers ahead.

It’s hard to make it as a musician, if there’s anything readers have learned from the more mundane The Archies run, it requires hard work, luck and fierce passion. But Bingo doesn’t quite have that attitude, rejection after rejection doesn’t make him hunger to work harder rather he wanted an easier way out as implied by the deal with the shadowy Satanic character with his blood dealings.

The art by Dan Schoeing does an amazing job in being incredibly detailed, light/dark enough for the characters to be seen while paralleling Bingo’s isolated position in the story, constantly taunted by shadows and hallucinations in the corners of his mind and the unreachable fame that is about to leave him once the contract is up.

Even though the dialogue is minimal, Bunn uses every line to the hilt, revealing a bit more of the details of the contract and the events leading up to it while building up the ominous atmosphere of what isn’t being said.

As with all the Archie horror stories, there is a cool twist to the end that flips all the fear that readers believe Wilkin is experiencing is actually the oppsoite. He is completely consumed by the fame, he doesn’t want to escape the devil haunting him and the horrific acts his fans do in his name. No, he wants to embrace it and soon becomes the next shadowy character to the unsuspecting Clyde Didit.

I only wished that it fleshed out Sam a bit more if only to make her death and Bingo’s apathy even more horrifying.

Super cool one shot.

4 stars.