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pbraue13's review
4.0
A great one shot comic with five different stories taking place at various points in the Halloween universe. I'll put my thoughts for each story as such:
- "Trick or Treat": This story follows the elderly couple, the Mackenzies, whom Tommy Doyle and Lindsey Wallace were instructed to run to after their encounter with Michael Myers. I like how this story takes characters you only hear the names of in passing in spoken lines of the series (the lines which have almost become iconic to fans of the series) given their own small plot. It's especially interesting to see how Michael's darkness touched people within the town apart from those who experienced the events of the films. It gives the world a little more color, although I do wonder how Michael was able to sneak in and put razors in all those chocolates or why he would even target the Mackenzie's, but overall liked it. 4/5 stars
- "Tommy and the Boogeyman": An interesting comic within a comic story that follows a grown up Tommy Doyle (now a comic artist) reading the comic he read as a kid (mentioned in the original 1978 classic film) and after seeing what was in that comic I can understand why his mother wouldn't want him reading it. It's creepy, unnecessarily pervy, and I find it hard to believe that this was the comic the character was reading in the 1970s as it is way too lewd and graphic. I do like the add on to the end of him starting a comic based on the events that he had experienced as a kid, implying that he is turning his trauma into art (and even implies that some of the film franchises weirder elements I.e. the Thorn Cult are artistic embellishes by him). Otherwise, my response to it was a "what the hell?" 3/5 stars
- "P.O.V.": A story with no dialogue or panels, purely told through images. These images both show the "Point Of View" of Michael Myers and the Miss Haddonfield Beauty Queen after she wins the competition. It's fairly short and sort of pointless. I enjoy the use of the P.O.V. shots in the comic like the films, but I don't understand why he just goes after this Beauty Queen out of nowhere. I know that this moment is referenced later in other Halloween Comics (like "Halloween: Autopsis"), but again I fail to see why this was written other than a fun little experiment and having Michael Myers kill someone. 2/5 stars
- "Visiting Hours": A tragic look inside the mind of Laurie Strode as she tries imagining a world or alternative universe where she managed to avoid Michael Myers, but no matter what reality comes crashing in and she has to face that it did happen to her and he'll never stop coming. Bleak and beautifully written, it's a shame that the film it is prefacing is so terrible. 5/5 stars.
- "Repetition Compulsion": Probably the best story of the collection. Following Sam Loomis after the events of 1978, this story is another blend of tragic, grim, and chilling. It is the closest I have felt to watching the original film for the first time. Adding the element of Michael Myers tormenting Loomis as he has nothing after Laurie's disappearance, moving things in his room/office/house when Loomis is either asleep or not aware, and killing a teacher who dared disregard the darkness of Halloween - you're left with a tragedy (as Loomis is literal inches away from the teacher being murdered and could have helped her) and chilling realization (he'll never stop) and that's the spirit of the Halloween franchise. 5/5 stars
I give the comic as a whole 3.5/5 stars!
- "Trick or Treat": This story follows the elderly couple, the Mackenzies, whom Tommy Doyle and Lindsey Wallace were instructed to run to after their encounter with Michael Myers. I like how this story takes characters you only hear the names of in passing in spoken lines of the series (the lines which have almost become iconic to fans of the series) given their own small plot. It's especially interesting to see how Michael's darkness touched people within the town apart from those who experienced the events of the films. It gives the world a little more color, although I do wonder how Michael was able to sneak in and put razors in all those chocolates or why he would even target the Mackenzie's, but overall liked it. 4/5 stars
- "Tommy and the Boogeyman": An interesting comic within a comic story that follows a grown up Tommy Doyle (now a comic artist) reading the comic he read as a kid (mentioned in the original 1978 classic film) and after seeing what was in that comic I can understand why his mother wouldn't want him reading it. It's creepy, unnecessarily pervy, and I find it hard to believe that this was the comic the character was reading in the 1970s as it is way too lewd and graphic. I do like the add on to the end of him starting a comic based on the events that he had experienced as a kid, implying that he is turning his trauma into art (and even implies that some of the film franchises weirder elements I.e. the Thorn Cult are artistic embellishes by him). Otherwise, my response to it was a "what the hell?" 3/5 stars
- "P.O.V.": A story with no dialogue or panels, purely told through images. These images both show the "Point Of View" of Michael Myers and the Miss Haddonfield Beauty Queen after she wins the competition. It's fairly short and sort of pointless. I enjoy the use of the P.O.V. shots in the comic like the films, but I don't understand why he just goes after this Beauty Queen out of nowhere. I know that this moment is referenced later in other Halloween Comics (like "Halloween: Autopsis"), but again I fail to see why this was written other than a fun little experiment and having Michael Myers kill someone. 2/5 stars
- "Visiting Hours": A tragic look inside the mind of Laurie Strode as she tries imagining a world or alternative universe where she managed to avoid Michael Myers, but no matter what reality comes crashing in and she has to face that it did happen to her and he'll never stop coming. Bleak and beautifully written, it's a shame that the film it is prefacing is so terrible. 5/5 stars.
- "Repetition Compulsion": Probably the best story of the collection. Following Sam Loomis after the events of 1978, this story is another blend of tragic, grim, and chilling. It is the closest I have felt to watching the original film for the first time. Adding the element of Michael Myers tormenting Loomis as he has nothing after Laurie's disappearance, moving things in his room/office/house when Loomis is either asleep or not aware, and killing a teacher who dared disregard the darkness of Halloween - you're left with a tragedy (as Loomis is literal inches away from the teacher being murdered and could have helped her) and chilling realization (he'll never stop) and that's the spirit of the Halloween franchise. 5/5 stars
I give the comic as a whole 3.5/5 stars!
ori2590's review
3.0
Killing machine Michael Myers is back and this one shot comic book contains 5 short stories set in different times
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