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Comics Corner: Childâs Play #1Â âNight of the Living Dollâ
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Happy days before Halloween everybody. While I have an X-tra Spooky treat planned for the day itself, I thought iâd start branching out from X-Men Comics (though that will be my primary focus), with a comic iâve been dying to read since I found out it existed: The Childâs Play mini series from innovation comic, one of only two series and 10 comics overall starring your faviorite murder doll and mine: Charles âChuckyâ Lee Ray. Also contains a slasher off to see who would win between Chucky and some classsic killers because the comic put the idea in my brain. Wanna Play? Then join me after the cut.Â
WARNING: This review contains scenes of Gore. While I did try to cut it down being a horror comic about a slasher villain, this was inevitable, Discretion is advised.Â
Childâs Play is a horror franchise I absoltuley love. While iâve procastinated on seeing the DTV sequels, not that I think their bad iâm just a forgetful mess sometimes, and Seed, because no amount of Jennifer Tilly or intresting gender identity issue stuff will compensate for me having to watch Chucky masturbate, I have followed the series for years, afraid to watch it because I wasnât a huge horror fan at the time and Chucky scared the shit out of me as a kid. Eventually I realized that despite my fear I loved the franchise for itâs thoroughly interesting killer, entertaining kills, and at itâs best great stories and at itâs worst so bad itâs good royalty. Even the Don Manncini, creator of the series and writer of every film and director of three, disowned remake is pretty good if thoroughly itâs own thing. So naturally a Mini-Series taking place between 2 and 3 that may fit neatly into continuity, this is my shit and iâm so happy to finally read it.Â
For the lapsed and unintiated, the Chucky/Childâs Play series, the original anyway the remake is itâs own thing and has itâs own backstory, follows Charles Lee Ray, aka Chucky, a serial killer who in desperation to get away from the cop perusing him after his partner ratted him out, used his vodoo knowledge, because every serial killer knows voodoo apparently, to put himself in the nearest vessel, a doll. The rest of the backstory can be covered as we go as the first issue does a really good job of organically explaning it for the unaware. Granted I donât know if most non childâs play watchers would be intrested in this comic but itâs a nice gesture.Â
This mini comes to us from innovation entertainment, a 90â˛s publishing company that made tie in comics for a number of things, and from writer Andy Mangels who also wrote Innovationâs Nightmare on Elm Street comics, which Linkara has covered in detail if your curious and which iâll probably cover myself at some point, especially since this issue made a strong impression on me. Speaking of which, the mini as mentioned takes place between the second and third films, both of which have their own adaptations that iâll cover eventually, but I felt the original story was more appealing. As far as I can tell there have only been really three bits of media outside the franchise, not counting the aborted video game: A , from all accounts, terrible endless runner game, this mini series, and another mini series from Hack/Slash creator and former Nightwing Maestro Tim Seely, as well as a crossover between Hack/Slash and Chucky from Seely. And having read said crossover and found it excellent and feeling just like the movies in regards to the little shit, I hope to find the mini one day and share it with you lovely people. But even if I had iâd probably be covering this one first since chronological order combined with the fact it seems that mini dosenât fit into canon anymore and this one might. Now the exposition is out of the way letâs get to the good stuff.Â
Since I didnât really cover the covers in my first two X-Men reviews, and feel I really should going issue by issue it just hadnât occured to me, letâs look at the cover. Itâs decent, kinda a parody of old horror comics covers or old horror movie covers and a nice start to things.. although frankly I wouldâve preffered the splash page instead.Â
I love it. Itâs a nice little gag, and while the blood splatter is partly nonsensical and looks like Chucky just killed a guy to splatter some extra blood about to make his collection look more badass.. though given who weâre dealing with it wouldnât suprise me, so it dosenât really detract. That being said being a burgeoning horror fan and having seen films from most of these franchises and knowing enough about those I donât from other reviewers reviews, iâd be remiss if I didnât speculate about if Chucky could win against these other titans of terror. PLACE YOUR BETS BITCHES, ITâS A SLASHER OFF.Â
Chucky Versus Micheal Meyers: Heâd stab him for the love guru. Easy joke aside the horror of haddonefield does have size and strength, even in his old man version from the recent movie and upcoming sequels, over Chucky and while I thought this would be easily him... Chucky has him in speed and agility. He could climb that fucker and stab him up and down, shadow of colossus style, until even Micheal would have to buckle over, or just as likely set an elaborate trap like 2k18 Laurie. Micheal has some intellegence and a Chuckâs own drive not to give up, but that wonât save him from an opponent whoâs faster, smarter and just as piss angry stubborn. Chucky wins. Chucky Versus the Creature from the Black Lagoon: Chucky. The creature is strong but chuckyâs craftier and would poison a lake just to kill a bastard. Chucky Versus Jason: Tough call. Like Micheal, Jason is slow.. but heâs also 20 times more durrable, stronger and way more likely to get Chucky off him. Heâs also more likely to use the environment meaning even if I vastly prefer Chucky, itâs a more even fight and more likely to go in Jasonâs favor, as any trap Chucky set would likely get walked off. Jason wins. Chucky Vs The Phantom of the Opera: Not really a traditional slasher and I donât really know the version that is or the version that isnât to be frank, but it seems like Erik could take chucky in cleverness and ruthlessness and combined with having home field advantage, iâm calling advantage Erik. He wins. Chucky Vs Dracula: Okay 1, make this a movie yesterday Mancini and 2, this is a tough one. On the one hand Drac has mist, a horde of brides, wolves and transformation. If itâs home court, Chuckyâs gonna die, especially if the count simply uses his brides to seduce him as Chucky is kinda easy that way. But in the US? Chucky is an onry bastard and Dracula has a ton of weakness, so I could see Chucky loosing round one then coming back to kill the bastard at dawn and anyone dumb enough to defend his coffin. Plus Chucky isnât alone having Tiffany and the ablity to split himself among good guy dolls, so I could see Chucky creating another army of himself to do a suicide run on Dracâs castle. Itâd hurt but Chucky is a vengeful dick. Chucky wins. Seriously Mancni get on this. Chucky Vs Freddy: Depends on the setting: In the Dream World, itâs likely Freddy as he can throw Chuck off guard by giving him his body back or using former survivors, while in the real world itâs Chuckyâs turf but Freddy still has knife hands with more reach than his lumbering opponents, so even with prep I expect Chucky to eat that one, so I give it to Freddy. But honestly I prefer Don Manciniâs ACTUAL pitch for a crossover heâs trying to get happening: Chucky and Freddy meet up, and actually admire each otherâs style but realize that two killers in town will dry up all the victims so they wage a dirty rotten scoundrelâs style looser leaves town contest: whoever chops up the most teens by dawn stays. I want that yesterday too. Chucky Vs Xenomorph: If itâs a facehugger as shown, Chucky, it probably woudlnât be able to bond with him and heâd stab it. But a proper showdown.. xenomorph. It matches Chuckyâs speed, ferocity and while not as intelligent is still far stronger and just as ruthless. Chucky Vs Leatherface: Chucky. While Leatherface has the better weapon and matching speed, Chucky can outthink him. Chucky wins but while I havenât seen Texas Chainsaw Massacre, against the whole clan Chucky probably woudlnât win.. but would probably throw in with them long enough to survive since heâs a murderous bastard too and as long as he dosenât have to join in dinner, itâs essentially his MO with help and family. Heâd probably grow to either love them or get annoyed enough to kill em all. Chucky Vs The Tall Man: Tall Man. The Phantasm Ball is just too powerful and Chucky too vunerable and stubborn for a teamup. Chucky vs Pinhead: Pinhead. I may be too squeamish for hellraiser but heâs FAR above Chuckyâs paygrade. So overall itâs 4 to 6 with Chucky loosing, but he still put up a far better fight than youâd think. And for funsies before we move on to the actual meat of the comic at long fucking last. Chucky Vs Ash: Ash. Ash is dumb sometimes sure, but heâs just as stubborn, has dealt with being accused of murder before so framing him wonât work, and unlike the Slashers heâs got a shot gun, which while chucky can dodge, I could see Ash pining him. Dumb dosenât mean he isnât clever. However I do want to see the hyjinks that would insue so please, Mancini, do this one if you either canât get freddy or if you can after that. Please? Okay so with ALLLL of that out of the way, letâs dive in.Â
We open on the above, whatâs left of Chucky after Childâs Play 2, being reforged into a fresh body. Itâs exactly as pleasant as youâd think.Â
Maybe he just says that because the sight of him with lipstick gives grown men heart attacks.Â
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See? Unsuprisingly, thatâs one of my faviorite Childâs Play moments. Or maybe he just needs a pair of fresh eyes to stop being so hetronormative.Â
I do love this bit, itâs a nice bit of comedy that dosenât feel too broad and fits right into the franchise, even before the outright horror comedies. And now for you ladies and gentleman and otherâs pleasure...LIVE NUDE CHUCKY!
Granted Bride would later retcon in a penis, but given heâs in a third body by then. Or maybe itâs the fact his body gets more human the longer heâs in one, so maybe he grows one or fused a strapon to himself. I dunno. Iâm not an expert in Chuckyâs Penis. Thatâs Don Manciniâs job. So Chucky puts some pants on, because wether itâs because you love somebody or want to stab them silly, you put your pants on for them, and wonders if he should wear something more inconspicuous before realizing heâs a 3 foot animate doll.. heâs always going to be conspicuous, another inspired bit of comedy. This is something I like about the issue: Regognizing how ludicrious the two sequels at the time were, Mangels leans into the comedy a little, but without overriding the horror, as youâll soon see, somehow correctly predicting the direction of the franchise. But chucky made a mistake.. the last page showed him triggering an alarm by accident and well.Â
As you can see in a neat stylistic choice, the siren blares over the entire page as Chucky makes a run for it and a mysterious observer sees a slight against god running about, decides cool and follows. He accidently slams into chucky in another funny bit. He offers a ride and while Chucky balks at this weirdo, said weirdo points out that howâs heâs going to outrun the cops otherwise and Chucky reluctantly gets in. And it says something if the guy with a bigger body count than a heart attack still has reservations going with you. The teen says Chucky reminds him of a kid who was in the papers for claming a doll killed some people and his mother who backed up the story, was suspected to have did it and put her in an insane asylum, or as this little shit calls it âElectro-Shock Pallaceâ as someone who himself is mentally ill, and afraid of asylums and lives in a world two decades removed where mass killings happen often and are often pinned on mental illness, fuck this twerp and I canât wait for his commupance. Chucky sets him straight.Â
See this is why I didnât jsut do a big infodump on everything right up front, the comic does a good cjob recapping childâs play 1, and 2 isnât relevant to the plot aside from the intro. They explain things quick and fast and chucky himself gives a good chunk of the filmâs backstory pretty quickly once he and shades here get back to his house.Â
This is also interesting as even the films havenât really gone into how Charles Lee Ray felt as he became a doll or if he was conscious when Karen first got him. Thereâs more of course, and while itâs not necessary to this story, Karen does show up in this series, so iâll fill you in on where the story went from there, as well as what Chucky left out or wasnât there for. Here we go... Karen Barclay was the struggling mother of young Andy, who wanted a Good Guy doll for his birthday. Karen, not having much, found one second hand... Chucky. Chucky started manipulating the young kid, offscreen though that just makes it more unsettling even if the mystery of if Chuckyâs real or not is kinda pointless when we saw a guy explode himself into a doll. I also like the nod that Chucky knows about as much as the fans do as to why their was a mega explosion. He first kills Karenâs best friend and Andyâs babysitter for the night, which Andy blames Chucky. No one belivies him.. which is understandable.. whatâs not is when Chucky kills next, having andy take him to his acompliceâs house and blowing it up, NO ONE seems to question why a little child blew up a known criminal, how he knew where the house was, or why, when the previous crime was done in the home with motive, he killed some random guy. I do love this film but this bit feels especially dumb on the cops part not even bending a LITTLE. But this isnât a review of the first movie so letâs move on. Andy is comitted, which as sad as it is to see an innocent child thrown in an institution does make at least some sense so they can find out if heâs really seeing things or not, and Karen returns.. and finds that the Good Guy dolls donât come with batteries, yet Chucky has been talking like any other toy. As a result we get one of the best scenes in the franchise history if not itâs best, and really, as much as I try I canât do it justice. Though if you canât watch in short he does an exorcist when she checks the batteries, she threatens to burn him, and he reveals himself. In long... itâs worth a watch.Â
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Chucky runs for it, Karen tries to tell Mike who dosenât belivie her.. until Chucky comes for him. Chucky then heads for Dr.Death, his vodoo 101 teacher, who refuses to help him viewing him an abomination but stupidly left a vodoo fetish of himself around and you can guess the rest. He reveals Chucky can only transfer to the first person he revealed himself too so he heads for Andy with .. this.Â
Mancini had to know what he was doing right? Right? Anyway. Karen and Mike find a dying Death who tells them to aim for the heart and who his target is. Andy dodges Chucky and escapes the Aslyum heading home where we get a final confrontation between the Barclayâs, Mike and Chucky, which is damn good and ends with Andy burning the fucker with a badass response to his claim of being his friend to the end âThis is the end friendâ. This dosenât quite finish him but a shot to the heart, with Mike to blame, kills the bastard.. for now. Now weâre all caught up, letâs get back to the story.Â
Dipshit has called his friends to see Chucky and as seen above, Chucky is wondering why he shoudlnât kill the guy.. but Dumbass has a good point for once: his one friend is studying magic, presumibly at Durmstrang since Hogwarts dosenât tolerate that kinda shit, and could help summon dr. death to see if they can fix his situation. Granted Death viewed him as an abomination and wanted nothing to do with Chucky, but he might let something slip or have no choice and itâs better than the nothing Chucky has to go on. Chucky gives exposition to Fuckwitâs friends and claims he killed Dr.Death in self defense, which isnât entirely innacurate and Steaming Bowl of Elephant Piss suggests holding a seance. But one of his friends, Burt, who seems to be the only one to see Chucky for the red flag he is, calls an audible and Chucky grumbles off while they talk in private.Â
As you can see, Fuckbucket sets the intellgence standard for his group. However their not SO obnoxious that it distracts from how horrible whatâs about to happen will them will be. Except shitty shitty bang bang. Since Itâs hard to remember all of the dead meets names iâll be calling the girl Molly Ringwald, Burt by his name since heâs being sensiable, the moron drinking his own blood Edgelord, and Numbnuts MCGee my current barrage of creative insults. But yeah none of them take Chucky as a threat seriously, which is a nice little meta commentary on how most people think they could take Chucky, even though the guy is nigh unkillable, smart and fast and stronger, if not heavier, than him being a doll would make you think. Burt is the ONLY one here who seems to think harboring a serial killing doll is a terrible idea and thus the only one I respect. And âMost LIkely To Run Into A Wallâ has the genius observation seen above where he asks âweâre helping him why would he hurt usâ... when heâs already threatned to kill him and has no use for any of them once he has any info they can scrape up, with Burt pointing out even if their sucessful theyâll be responsible for more killing. Sadly heâs outvoted. Seriously while I do like Mangels, I question his opinon on teenagers and horror fans, especially given his long screed about the horrors of the world at the front of the issue and how his comics horrors donât compare to racisim or homphobia, though the latter is a nice touch considering this was the early 90â˛s and some horror audiences could be homphobic morons, when the horror fans he portray are a darwin award of the decade winner, a moron who cuts himself not because he has serious issues with depression but to drink his own blood, a witch who goes along with their stupidity, and ... one likeable guy whoâs coded as a wuss but is the only sane one here.Â
So morons r us, plus burt and chucky, call Dr.Deathâs spirit forth in a very moody and atmospheric scene. Naturally it goes GREAT.Â
Dr.Deathâs form dissolves terrifyingly and awesomely and our morons, and Burt, are left, literally since they turned the lightâs down in the dark> Burt is freaking out and has shards of crap in him thanks to all this.. couldnât of killed fuckaround could you John? Burt is lead to the bathroom, while Fuckwit and Edgelord head downstairs, Fuckwit heading further down to check the breakers since the power is out for the whole house while Edgelord actually says something smart and wonders what they ALL shoudlvâe been thinking about: Whereâs chucky? He has a response in this AWESOME looking panel.Â
And hereâs where the it dosenât undercut the tragedy bit comes into play. Sure these kids are kinda dumb.. but most teens are, and they might not belivie he actually killed peope or even if they did, think they can take him as foolishly stated. They had their whole lives to become better people, and Mollly Ringwald and Burt seemed like decent enough people while Edgelord was probably going though a phase. Dum Dum Dumbassigan dosenât really get a huge repreive but the point is NONE of them deserve to die and they arenât dialed up to obnoxious, except assface, to be that unsympathetic. Their being stupid sure, but again MOST TEENS ARE or will at least be easily talked into doing something that all common sense says should kill them. And sadly in David, aka edgelordâs case...
Yeah it took a while but I had that gore warning for a reason. And he then decides to fill David with knives. I also stopped calling him edgelord because well. .look at it. The death is horrifying, well drawn and only made worse when Chucky decides to play âpin cushionâ and fill him with knives off screen. His next target is sadly my man burt. He does complain A LOT and while a little whiny, given heâs covered in cuts, about to die and was the ONLY ONE here to excercise caution.. yeah he has a right to be. And then.. this happens to Burt in the bathroom...
Yup, THAT just happened. But I like it a lot.. itâs done with style, humor.. but not without horror either. A nicely done little parody. Molly, or wendy as the comic calls her, wonders around the Darkness for a bit.. and then finds Davidâs corpse.. which I ownât show as holy shit itâs as graphic as it is horrifying. And given what I showed you of his death earlier, thatâs saying something.She tells an approaching Moron to stay back.. and well..
In order....... I am so angry at that first panel âI donât know what happened here....â I DONâT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED HERE.Â
BITCHCAKES, YOU LET A SERIAL KILLER INTO YOUR HOUSE WHO VANISHED ON YOU AFTER A SPOOKY GHOST TOLD YOU TO KILL HIM OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES. WHAT IN THE STAR SPANGLED, CHERRY COATED MARSHMELLOW FUCK DID YOU THINK HAPPENED. Second, while I get her logic, Fartnugget isnât capable of working out basic sequence of events let alone killing a person. And finally.. there is no amount of gifs that can convey how happy I am at that last panel.Â
Wendy goes mad from the shock and Chucky, whosâ been lurking under the table this whole time with a Freddy Glove, strikes.Â
Itâs no âwelcome to prime time BITCHâ, but I think Freddy would dig it. Naturally, the glove dosenât kill her but she snaps her neck.. and then chucky , of all things, calls the police.Â
Iâll not explode with rage again btu the davidâs dead line tempted me, as HE JUST KILLED YOUR FRIEND OF COURSE HE DID. As for his threat... Chucky is unimpressed. See this was his plan. At least once they stopped being useful. Gee who couldâve predicted that? Chucky has decided to frame ponytailed idiot for it, a real brilliant way of going about things, and to me WHY Chucky is such a threat. Even if you beat him, if you donât have proof.. he still gets you locked up and then comes back stronger than ever. This ending also actually helps with a plot hole some might have with the series.Â
Chucky dosenât leave fingerprints. He MIGHT as he turns more human, bud odds are he dosenât, thus itâs easy enough to frame whoeverâs left.. though it was neat to see him do so intentionally. Truck Nuts breaks down, Chucky flees and we end on a teaser for the next issue as some mysterious Doctor has come to Karen Barclay with promises to help go after Chucky. But thatâs for another day. For now our story is done. Thereâs also a page for a âStuck On Chuckâ contest, with the winners getting to be in issue 5. Just bringing that up so if I ever get there, I wonât have missed it. And with that we finally close out.Â
Final Thoughts:Â
This issue is excellent. I was expecting something slightly cheesy and not great, and while there are narmy elements: the commentary on horror being a media scapegoat seems out of place and as I made abdundantly clear on second read the lead is insufferable. His fate is still tragic, but heâs such a moron I canât help but feel he brought it on himself, but his friends arenât so obnoxious that you donât feel bad when they do die, a mistake full on horror movies make too often. The kills are gory, as shown thereâs some nice visual flair here and there, and chucky is drawn amazingly, especially for the time. Thereâs an awkward shot here or there but for the most part the artist really captures him well. This comic is a hidden Gem and if your a fan of the films or even just the first one, I strongly recommend it, or if nothing else as I havenât gotten to the rest, this issue. If you liked this review, feel free to like or reblog, and if you want one like it for the issue or graphic novel of your choice, just pm and slip 5 bucks into my paypal and iâll get right on it as soon as the first week of november. Until then, iâm your friend to the end.Â
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