Comic Summary IV (Nailbiter No.13)


Well this was a misleading comic. The cover does itself up in one of those girls romantic comics from the late 60s early 70s. And that's what I was expecting to read a recreation of one of those silly stories. Which supernatural undertones like floating heads eyeballs that stare at you and crippling paranoia that grips every teenage girl.
Unfortunately that's not what we get. However if we look at the comic cover you'll notice that there is a ''not approved by the comic code Authority''. I guess that's their attempt at being edgy.
It's strange to me, the comic code Authority doesn't really exist anymore that is the same no one uses it.
If I remember right it was invented sometime in the mid 50's. it was supposed to clean up the smut that was a evolving in comics at the time. A lot of people thinking it was a little too violent for the children. Unfortunately it didn't really destroy violent Comics, it just pushed all that to the underground and killed off The Westerns, Noir stories and strange creatures from the Lagoon. Replacing them all with the boring Men in Tights that we know today.

This comic starts out well enough. It opens on this graveyard party* with a bunch of preppy students hanging around playing truth and dare. The main girls Shannon has been dared too kiss some random boy who's hanging out alone in the corner looking at some random tombstone. She decides to give it a shot claiming "he might be weird but at least he's kind of cute." And she heads over to the guy
He doesn't pay her that much mind saying that he overheard their conversation and knows why she's here. And with that he decides to leave not kissing the girl and not giving a damn. This causes all of Shannon's friends to mock her that even the weird guy wouldn't give her a kiss.
This Peaks her interests, there's something about him that she wants to discover.

It's after this point of the comic loses me a little bit. We switch to some random Shack wear the same blonde kid (Warren) is being arrested by two police officers surrounded by a cult of strange looking men. Wearing bright red roads with Suns on them. There's a brief conversation between Warren and this random priest who was also blonde. It's a bit problematic because the faces are all drawn very similar for men. In certain close-up shots you can't really tell who's who. Anyways Warren freaks out the priest and then heads off with the police to some weird cave.

The Police want answers for some unknown murders which they think are associated with Warren. He acts sneaky towards them and informed them and he has his own secret that he's not wishing to tell anyone. He's really not that enjoyable of a character more of an arrogant jerk. Now I also realize that this is the 13th comic and that he may have had possible character development in previous issues that would lead us to be more sympathetic towards him. But unfortunately without any of that knowledge he just comes off as arrogant. Somehow he manages to escape from the two police and then Cuts over to a scene of him at a movie theater with Shannon from earlier. It seems the two of them are starting to hit it off in a romantic way.
Or so that's how it should be. Warren isn't showing Shannon any attention. He's more focused on the movie which happens to be about the serial killer in the town that he lives in.

Shannon starting to get annoyed at him, saying that he has no interest in her and she starts believing that maybe this guy might actually be the killer because of his strange attitude towards the whole event revolving around serial killers in their town.
And I'm starting to believe that she might be right. Because the next scene is Warren pretending to be dead to get into a hospital to see some random guy whose arms and legs were torn off by some other serial killer. But why'll he's investigating this, the random priest shows up from earlier and start eating the flesh of the victim. Leaving us some one heck of a cliffhanger.

On one hand but, it doesn't do a lot to inspire me to want to keep reading. It doesn't convince me that this guy is all that interesting or that I should care about the events in his life. But on the other hand that Cliffhangers made me interested enough that if I could find No. 14 I'd probably pick it up (assuming it was under $2.)

*A graveyard party. Have you ever actually heard of anyone doing this. I mean outside of The Addams Family.

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