Freddy is upset when one of his victims wakes up and is killed by a fat jerk in a striped sweater. Freddy finds out that it’s this guy named Otis, a sociopath that Freddy passed over during Otis’s teenage years because Freddy thought he was too pathetic and that death would be doing him a favor. Years later, he is a total Freddy fan and wants to get in on the action as Freddy’s sidekick.
Freddy isn’t interested, but his hands are tied. remember during the innovation race where i talked about how freddy’s only vulnerability is an empty plate? gage accepts the idea. Freddy needs to be discreet to do his devious work. If its existence becomes public knowledge, Springwood will simply empty out and be left without a hobby. otis knows this and blackmails him so that if otis dies or freddy refuses help from her, tons of evidence will be emailed to the media.
To deal with this problem, Freddy runs into another fanboy. it’s just wonderful because the very idea that people idolize him takes freddy out of his comfort zone and even he finds it completely absurd.
The ending ties things up nicely and there’s a funny aside about a teenager on meth that Freddy considers a threat. Track this one down. It’s easily the best Freddy comic.
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then in 2008 wildstorm and dynamite teamed up to give us freddy vs. jason vs. .jason. Coincidentally, Bruce Campbell always thought such a movie was ridiculous because she believed no one in her right mind had any interest in seeing her aging butt reprise the role of Ash Williams.
And now, of course, Mr. Campbell knows better.
freddy vs. jason vs. ash was written by jeff katz and james anthony while jason craig and… *sigh* drew it.
Okay, listen up folks. I have been writing for den of geek for years. I’ve talked about freddy vs. jason vs. ash when I made my list of ridiculous appearances by horror icons in non-film media. I brought it up again when I made a list of comic book sequels for movies. then, once again, when I reviewed the history of the Friday the 13th comics. I’m probably going to do an evil dead comic book retrospective later on and talk about it for the fifth time!
guys. I’m so tired of writing about freddy vs. jason vs. ash.
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Anyway, the series picks up after Freddy vs. Jason and throws Ash into the mix, out to keep the Necronomicon out of the hands of both Freddy and Jason. It’s great because for once we have a genuinely charismatic hero to cheer for. I mean, the best hero character we’ve had up to this point is, who, Nancy? Yeah, Ash is a huge step up and it helps knowing that he has plot armor, so we’re assured that at the end of the day, he’s not going to be easily snuffed out to make way for the next hapless protagonist.
The final battle between the three is radical, even if the artist decided not to draw any background for most of it.
A year or so later, the creative team would continue with freddy vs. jason vs. ash: the nightmare warriors. while it’s a definitive love letter to all three franchises and has a killer hook, it also needed a handful of rewrites and art that wasn’t rushed out the door. the hook is that a support group of people who have survived freddy and/or jason is put together. It is headed by elm street survivors, neil gordon and maggie burroughs, and includes other heroes from various films. Ash is invited as he has been successful against Freddy and Jason at the same time.
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while this is happening, freddy strengthens himself with the necronomicon and tries to take over the world with jason and the deadites on his side.
Things get completely ridiculous and not in a good way. it’s total nonsense for maggie to turn evil just because she does, dressing like a slut and making out with her dad to drive home how evil she suddenly is. many things just happen without explanation. but hey, we do get some random bits of wacky fanservice, like when nancy’s ghost shows up to help neil.
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But the one cool thing about the mini is Freddy’s fate. This is the last Freddy Krueger comic and the last use of the Robert Englund incarnation of the character in any media, so this is the last word. In the end, he’s completely stripped of his powers by the ghouls living inside the Necronomicon. Reduced to a human and begging for his life, Freddy is then shot in the chest by Ash and his boomstick. Freddy’s corpse is blasted into a vortex. Then a random government agent character is also knocked into the vortex and we discover that he was the very cop back in the 60s who didn’t sign Freddy’s arrest warrant. He magically winds up back in the ’60s and signs the warrant, thereby preventing Freddy’s lynching and origin.
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so, in short, freddy is completely stripped, as killed as possible, and then his history as a demon slayer is erased via time travel. you have to give this book credit for being thorough.
Overall, the freddy comics won’t blow your mind, but there is some brilliance and flashes of interesting ideas to be found buried there. With the reboot movie flopping, there’s no reason to wait for another elm street comic for a long, long time. maybe if the next reboot attempt works or if another publisher wants to go for a little more nostalgia.
But hey, at least we have Scary Terry in the Rick and Morty comic! Close enough, bitch!
gavin jasper thinks people should use dokken as a weapon against freddy krueger more often. it worked like gangsters the first time! follow gavin on twitter.
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