Say what you will about the story itself, but the concept of being trapped in an empty theme park, where everything is out to kill you in horrible ways is a bone-chilling idea. And Jamie Tolagson's art in the Graphix adaptation elevates it to nightmarish proportions, with graphic and detailed images of zombies, werewolves, Giant Mantids, and other horrors, all juxtaposed with Erin and Marty's terror.
When the kids land in a mud pool and are being dragged by oozing, skeletal zombies into the muck, almost drowning before being "rescued" by Wolf Boy and Wolf Girl. Who in turn just want to eat the kids' flesh for themselves. Out of the frying pan into the fire, indeed.
The final few pages. Marty is seemingly electrocuted to death and lies there with a lifeless, empty gaze as Erin desperately tries to wake him. Then her father enters the scene, his face completely shadowed except for the shine of his glasses as he menacingly approaches a terrified Erin, desperately begging Mr. Wright to help them. Erin screams that he's not her father and the page's last panel is a black space decorated with Erin's fading cries. It's framed like a child is being murdered, and in some sense, she is.
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The ending. In the book, it's revealed that the kids are robots there to test the park's attractions and it ends on that note. The show, however, has the robot kids activate as their creator is preparing to reprogram them and go to attack him.
