NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD:
AFTERMATH #10: Noooooooo! Writer David Hine lived up to his threat from
last issue. They took my favorite
character and injected him with the zombie serum. Many of you may remember me saying they
should have given Vic his own spin-off, but I guess that’s not happening now .
. . . However, he’s not out of the
picture yet. It seems that this new
version of the serum has let him retain some of his intelligence. I’m not sure how I feel about that, but I’ll
definitely wait it out and see where Hine is going with this.
THE LAST ZOMBIE: THE
END #3: The shit has hit the fan. Dr. Ian Scott’s secret is out. Everyone knows he’s slowly becoming one of
the undead. Now Planters and company
have to figure out what they’re going to do with him. In the meantime, Frankie turns out to be just
like her other incarnations. For those
who don’t know, she’s appeared several times in writer Brian Keene’s novels,
usually alternate universe versions of her.
Very few of them turn out to have good luck. They’ve also made a odd choice with the new
artist, Ben Dunn. In fact, looking
through this issue kind of reminds me in moments of my webcomic with Robert
Tannahill, THE COCAINE! BROS. When the
guys finally make their escape from Chicago , two
of them finally get to deal with Harrow . As they descend upon him, I get a definite
Tucker/Hunter feeling from them.
G.I. JOE: THE COBRA
FILES #5: Finally, we get a look into
Clockspring’s past. He’s easily one of
the creepiest members of the Joe team, and not the cool kind of creepy, like
Freddy Krueger. No, this is creepy like
the guy who follows you home at midnight.
Still, it’s great to see him finally fleshed out. We now see what makes him tick. When I was at C2E2, writer Mike Costa
promised a lot of emotional damage coming in the near future. I think this might be the calm before the
storm. Writers don’t always deliver on
such promises, but Costa usually does.
It makes my ballsack shrivel just thinking about it. I think things are about to get fucked the
fuck up.
CROSSED: BADLANDS #35: If
there was any doubt that Amanda has finally lost it completely, it should be
gone by now. Lorre really got into her
head pretty badly, and now she’s murdering regular people, pretending that the
Crossed got to them. So, you know, she
had to mutilate the bodies and cut their dicks off, and all that stuff. How much farther can writer David Lapham push
her? I guess we’ll find out next issue,
when this story arc concludes. (Oh yeah,
and Candy has gotten pretty weird, as I’m sure you can tell from the sample
above. That’s the prelude to the
strangest face-fuck in comics history.)
KICK-ASS 3 #2: This
is a low-key story for Kick-Ass himself.
No, the star of this one is Rocco Genovese, the most recent member of
this scumbag mobster family to enter into play.
He is infinitely scarier than any of his brethren. I can’t wait to see more of this guy in
action. This is also quite the issue for
the Motherfucker’s mother, who toys with the idea of taking her son out of the
world to atone for bringing him into it.
Things get mighty strange by the last page. (OK, Kick-Ass does one thing that’s really
cool in this issue. Check out his BATMAN
YEAR ONE plan to see what I mean.)
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