Last week’s issue of “Cutter” had Jeremy and the townsfolk (who’d all wronged Emily Higgins in some way or another) devising a plan to lure her out and end her once and for all. Unfortunately, that ended with one of their buddies losing his head, literally. This week, issue three of “Cutter” is a tight race against time to save lives and figure out exactly how a dead girl is perpetrating these grisly attacks. Only in this issue, Jeremy has lost his band of brothers and must go at it (nearly) alone.
WRITTEN BY: Seamus Kevin Fahey / Robert Napton
ART BY: Christian Dibari
PUBLISHER: Image Comics / Top Cow
RELEASE DATE: October 15th, 2014
PRICE: $3.99
Issue three focuses on Jeremy and town sheriff, Ed. While Ed believes that it’s Emily committing the crimes, he is slow to admit this to Jeremy. As they snoop about town, including Emily’s old house, they find mason jars full of body parts—kill trophies. They also find Emily’s journal filled with excerpts about her life, proving what we already knew…she was bullied, hated, smacked around, and treated like dirt by her classmates; the very classmates being picked off one-by-one.
When Jeremy receives a text from Ed to meet him at the old Elementary school, he (very naively) goes to meet him only to find he’s been tricked…immediately followed by a blow to the head. Without spoiling everything, the issue ends on a very bad note for Jeremy, he’s in a tight spot and now he’s both suspect and witness to the crimes of Emily Higgins (of whomever…)
“Cutter” is a really fun, spooky, classic supernatural slasher comic for the month of October. There is nothing profound about it, and so far, nothing too unique. But I’m really enjoying it. It’s a bit of horror candy, if you will. The art is fantastic, truly a gem for a weekly comic. It’s impossibly detailed and the tones follow suit with the writing from panel to panel. While there are quite a few characters, frankly too many to keep up with, the comic does a great job of narrowing in on the ones who matter so that when one of them is hacked to bits, you at least care a little bit.
This comic is reminiscent of films like The Grudge, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Carrie. And while it’s steeped deeply in the tropes of the revenge-slasher genre, there is something brewing underneath that I’m fairly certain will shock us all. Not sure what it is and I could be completely incorrect, but there are glimpses here and there of something unexpected around the corner. I highly suggest picking up this comic for a fun, thrilling romp in the revenge madness of a dead girl. It’s a perfect way to prepare for Halloween.