Tag: Slasher

Kickstart the Week(end) with aXmaniac – a Slasher Horror Comic

Comic Maven

By: Nicole D’Andria Take a trip back to the 80s with the slasher horror comic we’re featuring today: aXmaniac! Enjoy horror tropes and archetypes with creator and die-hard horror fan Ammar Al-Chalabi. In 1982, a group of friends spend summer break at a cabin in the woods (because when has that ever gone wrong?). After getting partially unpacked, Jeff (the prep) and Emma (the airhead) go off into the woods to have sex—and are rudely interrupted when an axe-wielding maniac cuts Emma’s head open. And that’s only five pages in!…

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Kickstart the Week(end) with 100 Tears: The Comic

Comic Maven

By: Nicole D’Andria This week’s Kickstarter is an adaptation of a movie. Based off of the black comedy, 100 Tears: The Comic is about a slasher clown. I interviewed the writer (also editor-in-chief of Master Plot Comics) and the colorist of the mini-series about the killer project. 100 Tears was a black comedy movie back in 2007 about a lonely circus clown mistakenly put away for acts he didn’t commit. Fueled by revenge, the clown turns to murder in order to get revenge against the people who wronged him. Next…

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Moon Knight #1 Review

Comic Frontline

By: Jay Reyes Moon Knight is a very interesting individual, but is his character interesting enough to keep me entertained? Marc Spector is Moon Knight!…. Or is he? Meet Mr. Knight, a concerned citizen who helps the police. There is a Slasher out there and the police have called Mr. Knight for help. But even with the mystical force of Khonshu fueling his crusade, how does the night’s greatest detective save a city that’s as twisted as he is?  The Good: Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey on the same book equals…

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