100 Word Hits – Comic Reviews #17
Welcome to the latest installment of our 100 Word Hits column, in association with comics retailer The Unreality Store, in which Matthew De Monti brings us short, sharp reviews of the latest books to hit comic stores over the past month or so!
The Silver Coin #15
Created by Michael Walsh
Firefighter Louis finds the coin amidst a pile of burnt wreckage and it immediately awakens feelings in him he’s long suppressed. Louis has a dark side and the coin is delighted to help Louis bring that to the fore as he embarks on a killing spree. But the coin has a way of deceiving its holder and Louis’s service to the coin will be his ultimate undoing.
Michael Walsh continues to deliver the best horror comic on the shelves, and we hope his hiatus to enjoy the birth of his first child is a fantastic one. The coin will return!!
Rating: 9/10
Chicken Devils #1
Written by Brian Buccellato | Art by Mattia Monaco
In the sequel to Chicken Devil, Mitch finds himself reunited with his family who are giving him the cold shoulder after he mistakenly tried to kill them. Mitch has also kind of explained his way out of the killing of a Russian drug gang by blaming it on the Irate Bas-turds a rival Albanian gang. Not a good idea and soon their leader Shovel Head is after Mitch. Help will come from an unexpected quarter which means Mitch is going to need a couple more chicken suits as the Chicken Devils are taking it to the Albanians!
Cluckin’ great!
Rating: 8.5/10
Little Monsters #7
Written by Jeff Lemire | Art by Dustin Nguyen
With the group firmly divided over whether to feed on the human or protect her, Lemire and Nguyen give us a series of flashbacks showing the relationships between the children before the fracture. The mute Romie is shown to be far more powerful than the other children and there’s the end of issue reveal as Lemire starts to tie together some of the plot threads from earlier issues on where the adult vampires have gone and why the children are the only ones left
An absolute belter of an issue. Lemire and Nguyen continue to craft a must-read epic!
Rating: 9/10
Ghost Rider #7
Written by Benjamin Percy | Art by Cory Smith
The demonic ‘John Carpenter Thing-like’ entity that Wolverine cut out of Blaze finds a new host. This demonic shadow of Ghost Rider is called Exhaust and what’s more he can spread to new hosts creating more shadows of shadows. Blaze gets drugged by agent Warroad and we find out how he got infected in the first place – it was all down to Blackheart. Cut to Hell’s Backbone and Blackheart has summoned the worst of the worst to usher in a new darkness that Ghost Rider may be powerless to prevent
Seven issues in and this one is a banger!
