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Review: ‘X’ #4
Shotgun blasts for everyone in “X” #4. Things get dirtier and nastier for our anti-hero trying to clean up the city of Arcadia in the most blood-splattered ways possible. Nothing is clean, sacred or safe in this town. X is irritating everything corrupt is ultra-violent fashion without consideration for his or anyone else’s safety.
WRITTEN BY: Duane Swierczyski
ART BY: Eric Nguyen
PUBLISHER: Dark Horse Comics
PRICE: $2.99
RELEASE: 14 August 2013
I honestly would not be surprised at all if they do an all-red issue in the future. There is so much spilt blood and body parts flying in this issue I half-thought it was a zombie story. Sadly for the inhabitants of this tale, these people have turned themselves into monsters with no viral infection as an excuse to be found anywhere. The horror of people’s base nature is profiled in writer Duane Swierczyski’s coda for X’s first act of vigilante terrorism. Natives of this town seem capable of doing anything in order to survive, no matter how filthy it may be.
I have never heard of a villain who you could literally punch in the face forever since he can’t feel it. The fact that his skin is grafted from pigs is a not-so-subtle nod to show how ugly Berkshire is on the inside and on the outside. This is a horror film with vigilantes mixed in to give readers a bracing new story. Absolutely every character gets theirs hands, mouths, and everything else dirty here.
Is there a horror channel out there that could adapt this? I don’t know as I only get two English channels here in South Korea. This issue screamed zombie-gore, but no undead were anywhere to be found. It’s fascinating to see uninfected people can be as gruesome as flesh-eating monsters. There’s more mysteries to be explored in Arcadia and how X plans to exact justice. Now that I think of it, this story IS already on TV in a PG-friendly version: the CW’s Arrow. Only this crusader is rated a hard R. Duane Swierczyski and Eric Nguyen are keeping me distressingly compelled to see where they’re going next.
4/5 Skulls
Reviewed by – Your Friendly Neighborhood Brady
One of the most iconic tales in the history of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps saga is The Haunted Mask, the story of a young girl whose mask gets fused to her face one Halloween night.
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Adapted by Maddi Gonzalez, Stine’s The Haunted Mask is the next classic Gooosebumps tale to get the official graphic novel treatment, and it’s releasing on September 3, 2024.
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The 160-page graphic novel is being published by Graphix.
The Haunted Mask was originally published in September 1993, and it was the eleventh book in the original Goosebumps series. The story has spawned sequels and spinoffs over the years, and the original book was famously adapted as part of the live action TV series in the 1990s.
Just last year, the new “Goosebumps” series for Disney+ loosely adapted The Haunted Mask, with the series pulling bits and pieces from classic stories and putting a new spin on them.
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