Tales of Horror (New Line Cinema’s…)

    (WildStorm, 2007)
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New Line Cinema’s Tales of Horror #1 features two new tales, each a sequel of sorts to a popular horror movie: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and A Nightmare on Elm Street. “The Texas Chainsaw Salesman” finds a door-to-door peddler working desperately to unload his product. He runs across a decrepit estate and is invited inside for suspicious-looking kebabs. Despite familiar buzzing sounds in the background, the denizens of said estate maintain that they don’t need any chainsaws. Horror fiends will be disappointed by the story’s lack of physical confrontation, but some will appreciate the subtlety.

In “Copycat,” Freddy Krueger’s self-proclaimed biggest fan finds his dream job (so to speak) as The Clawed Killer’s companion. The “Living Nightmare’s” first errand is to get rid of a teenager who thinks he can exorcise Freddy. The Freddy fan performs the task but doesn’t exactly become Krueger’s best pal. Unlike the “Texas Chainsaw” tale, “Copycat” features the kind of over-the-top action and dark humor that fans of these types of comics enjoy.

Both stories have excellent, mood-enhancing art.

— Brett Weiss
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November, 2007
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