I love the Dr. Seuss-meets-Saturday-morning-cartoons version of Hell that Stanley dreams up. It's especially clever because this is a direct result of the monster sugarcoating what the place is ACTUALLY like so his li'l buddy wouldn't get nightmares. In other words, this is one instance where filling a kid's head full of misguided notions is actually a GOOD thing - if he'd been told the truth, he wouldn't have lasted for five minutes. Also, I have a fair amount of sympathy for Nyx. As the monster pointed out, she's a 'creature of 'evil''; she has no comprehension of any other way. Having her lover suddenly become all cuddly and family-friendly and up and leave her must have been more than just infuriating, it must have been completely baffling. As demons usually perceive things, she obviously DID love the monster - it would've been like a slap in the face for her to discover that she'd been left for the sake of a moral quality that neither she nor anyone else around her could comprehend. Overall, good stuff. Is there any chance of scanning some of the original 'Stanley and his Monster'?