Gint's 12-10-14 Pull-List Review

What do we like? Short review weeks is what we like. The extra cash also lets me get caught up on some trade paperback buying like The Walking Dead Vol. 22 and B.P.R.D.: Reign of the Black Flame.

Second Place:

Futures End #32

What interested me this issue was the return from space of the Atom, Frankenstein and Amethyst. It interested me because I forgot they were part of this book. They've had such a long break from the issues that other, better stories have stepped up. Its been nice.

My overall interest in Futures End has waned. After a lot of high finishes on the Pull-List, my excitement to read each issue just isn't the same. Where the first so many issues really seemed to be building toward something, we're now stuck in a lull before the big finish. Exactly 20 issues to go, folks.

Most depressing is the quiet love story building between Terry McGinnis and Plastique. Through some corny rom-com tropes this issue (you can almost hear the audible "awww" as she wipes pizza sauce off his face) you see the characters get a little closer. This setup can only mean one thing: Plastique will not be alive when this book wraps. She's been one of my favorite characters, and that bums me out.

First Place:

Coffin Hill #14

Caitlin Kittredge is now in the habit of taking an issue between her main Eve Coffin-centric story arcs to tell one-issue stories about smaller happenings around Coffin Hill, Massachusetts. This month she tells a very well put together 70s slasher-type story reminiscent of the hunters becoming the prey in The Last House On The Left.

You have to work a horror story a certain way in a comic book. Its a much tougher assignment to elicit some of the scares and raw panic that come naturally in live action. A lot of the success of this issue is from Ryan Kelly's pencils. He and colorist Eva De La Cruz nail the authentic nature of a 1970s horror movie.

Sounds strange to say it, being that there's so much blood and killing and horrible things in this book, but this was a really fun issue.

Splash of the Week:

Like I said above, Ryan Kelly and Eva De La Cruz really gave the full 1970s horror movie vibe in Coffin Hill.

-Gint