Decided to rent the first one before seeing the second, the previews for which had intrigued us.
How did we miss this before? It was great fun! Imagine Lovecraft-style demon-monsters fighting a contemporary-style sarcastic-snarky superhero, with a wild over-the-top backstory, creepy human villains, all kinds of bizarre religious references (how often does Pseudo-Dionysus the Areopagite - whom I quoted in my dissertation - figure in a comic-book movie?!!!!). Clearly it has destroyed my ability to construct coherent syntax.
And the DVD came with three episodes of Gerald McBoing-Boing (you can see it playing on a TV at some point during the movie) and an animated version of Telltale Heart, all of which we greatly enjoyed as well!