MAID CAFE #3 KEENSPOT ENTERTAINMENT
It’s at moments like these that I regret skipping an issue. Something happened in issue two that I will need to get caught up on. The idea that an uprising in a strange club where young women earn a living by dressing in anime type outfits and entertain the club members with singing and dancing, etc. And once you start to let yourself go or age starts to have an effect, you’re out. So it’s understandable when that occurs to one of the staff, she decides to fight back. With the threat of some chainsaw violence, it seemed to have potention. Now here we are in issue three and the whole thing is completely out of control. The members are really meeting some gruesome fates at the end of a chainsaw. Blood, guts, and severed body parts are everywhere. And what’s more intriguing, the other anime cosplayers seem to be losing their minds too. In an almost evil possession virus type way. This one is really going off the rails and has earned that Mature Readers label. 8 out of 10 Grahams.
THE EYE COLLECTOR #1 IMAGE COMICS
Image has once again managed to find the one of the oddest comic series. The creative team of Jonathan Ball and GMB Chomichuk bombard us with technicall drawings of lunar capsules, shadowy figures, strange creatures which appear to be a mass of eyeballs, and that weird art style like when you take a piece of black paper and drawing on it was a white marker. Definitely different to the point where I’m sure if I even get it yet, I’m preetty sure that this title will appeal to those readers who like a bit of a challenge. 7 out of 10 Grahams.
UNIVERSAL MONSTERS BLOOD OF THE WOLFMAN #1
Image brings us to its next classic Monster, the Wolf Man. And while it is a tradition horror story setup but this story suffers from the same problem as the Creature from the Black Lagoon. While most of the other series found a hole in the movie that they could exploit, Blood of the Wolfman bypasses the whole Larry Talbott movie character and introduces to Adam Jaeger, who may think he’s going insane but there is no question that he is a werewolf. Writer Joshua Williamson blends elements from such films as Wolfen and Teen Wolf to give us another tragic teen story about a misunderstood youth and his family curse. The problem here is that like the other films, the Wolfman series has plenty of empty spots to provide an interwoven tale. What if the series started with young Larry Talbott leaving his ancestral home to go to America as a wandering group of gypsies enters the town with Bella the gypsy taking center stage as the Wolfman? Just a thought. The other problem is while Adam tries to recreate the sense of pity we had for Larry, he really doesn’t manage to pull it off. Again, a fine Wolfman tale just not one that should have been advertised as a Universal Monsters title. 6 out of 10 Grahams.