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• Price: $3.99
• Rating: T+
• Pages: 32
• On Sale: February 21, 2018
• Writer: Cullen Bunn
• Artist: Blacky Shepherd
• Cover A: Kelley Jones
• Artist (back-up story): Kyle Strahm
• Colorist: Thiago Ribeiro
• Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment

From the publisher: “For each of Man’s evils, a special demon exists.”
For thirty years, the demon of vengeance has been still, its corpse buried in a pumpkin patch graveyard in the hills. But when a reckless driver accidentally kills a pair of children, the creature is called up once more. This time, though, the monster’s intended target is protected by a cruel backwoods crime family. They hatch their own supernatural plans for dealing with Pumpkinhead. For each of man’s sins, a special demon exists, and when seven infernal creatures roam the hills and the hollows, no one–guilty or otherwise–is safe.

Our WTComics WeView: Dynamite Comics and Cullen Bunn have done something truly unusual with the first issue of Pumpkinhead, they made me care about a licensed horror book!

Don’t get me wrong, I love horror comics and pick them up from time to time, but rarely do I go digging through back-issue bins looking for a missing issue. If there’s an issue missing, then it’s missing and that’s the end of it. It’s just the nature of horror comics, light and amusing, but of little consequence.

The ghoulish fun starts right off with the cover. Both the B cover by Ken Haeser and Buz Hasson and the C photo cover are great, and ordinarily I’d be happy with either, but normal doesn’t apply to Pumpkinhead.

The reason for that, is that comic veterans Kelley Jones and Chris O’Halloran have given birth to cover A, which stupefies in its horror grandness. I’m not one to seek out multiple copies just for the sake of a cover, but the black and white variant will probably have me bin diving for its magnificently haunting line work.

The good times continue once you finally get into the story. Interior illustrator Blacky Shepherd uses jagged frames and a free-flowing layout to the page that makes one feel as if they’re lost within Bradley Mountain reading the comic.

This seriously creepy feeling serves the story well and draws you in, though I won’t spoil it for you here. Just so you don’t think this is a perfect book, a criticism would be the dialog. It doesn’t quite hit home, but it’s far from a deal-breaker. A highlight of my week, and I’m looking forward to more (I’ve looked ahead and things are going to get real wild, real soon).

Rating: Near Mint (NM) or 9.2/10

Review by Chris

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