Anyone who has been pining away all these years for another work along the lines of Dan Clowes's first full-length foray into the comics medium, Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, which was originally serialized in the first 10(?) issues of Eightball, might find what they're looking for in Derek Van Gieson's supernatural soap opera noir. Situated in Mill City, a grimy place inhabited by new wave satanists, secret government agents, abducted family members, booze-hounds, record store clerks, conspiracy theorists, murders, and cartoonists, Eel Mansions is a trippy comics tale that assembles an eclectic menagerie of graphic tropes that range far and wide through the work's 224 pages.  Rendered for the most part in s chisled pen and ink style that is a mix of Georges Rouault, Ben Shahn, Tove Jansson and Dan Clowes; well, kind of...  Give it a look next time you're in, and see what you think.