No paper - just a disc - a CD.
Technology moves and we utilise it as we can.  From the vestigial details and .db files left in each directory’s chapter of the story. This edition of the CD would appear to have been burnt using an application called Nero. Whether there would be more features - such as the "cover 2 cfs.ncd" would be available when using Nero, I could not say, but as the images themselves are in the pretty much universal format of jpeg, then most personal computers should be able to view them (I use a Mac).  If you have a large screen that has the facility to display images at the resolution of 1280 x1024 then all the better - as you will be able to view the whole width of the image without the need to scroll: these are large images.   I feel I have to get these pedantic technological concerns off my chest - as this is what they essentially are.  My mentioning of them may cause you some concern and granted, they do not make the reading of the comic any easier if you have a low spec computer with a small screen, but don't let this put you off - this is a very good comic!!
Richard's art has always been a visual treat.  He is an intense cartoonist - someone who does not flinch at painstakingly depicting the ugly side of life in all its malevolent beauty.  He also seems to have enjoyed packing his work with a density of detail that makes me marvel at his patience and tenacity.  Background details like a mouse/rat being decapitated in a trap (first page of chapter 2) litter the background. The mob attacking a house is depicted scathingly in a childish style to empasise the disdain of the mob mentality, but that does not stop him pouring lavish detail into their scenes. He draws well, and you get the feeling that he really enjoys drawing, to the extent that there is a slightly obsessional aspect to the draughtsmanship - the general level of detail and the work applied to all the hatching and shading is very involved.  All this adds to the general heightened intensity that the comic delivers.
Richard has his polemical side, and is scathing of society, but not in a tired and hackneyed way.  The presentation is fresh and the cynicism is wrapped up with a lot of homour. Although he is often scornful and condemning, he is also humane; the characters often travel in circles of hell, but they are not condemned - he allows characters to condemn themselves.
It's a well plotted tale; cohesively planned and written, even down to the title. The chapters and recurring themes within would work a treat serialised over a number of months. The fact that there is no viable alternative comics anthology in this country that might be able to bring this work to he wider public makes me dispirited all over again...
mooncat