With the advent of the Walking Dead tv series and the launch Abandons own Nestor Ive decided to create horror comic blog where I take a look at some of the most hardcore horror comics coming out at the moment. I do intend to do an entire post on the Walking Dead comic's having followed the series since its launch.

Terror Inc

Being a fan of the Marvel Max Punisher I stumbled upon this very cool superhero/horror story which is basicly a reboot of an obsure Punisher foe from the 80's .
Imagine if John Carpenters the Thing was a superhero. Mr Terror is like-able but rotten ((I do mean rotten))
killer for hire. It sets up his back story that Mr Terror is a former Vandle warrior who sacked Rome and as a result is cursed with immortality yet keeps rotting away. Terror has to replace is limbs and body parts. Fast track to present day Terror is hired for his killer attitude and ability to replace is head with that of his target.

David Lapham Writes Terror with sly charm and a wicked sense of humour. He gives the story enough twists and turns to keep or hero on his many replacement toes. Some might argue that this is not a horror comic but trust me the gore and blood runs a plenty and theres a rather creepy moment where Terror witness's the cruel demise of a friend of his at the hands of some hoods through her own eyes. Patrick Zircher down and dirty art lends itself well to the whole tone of the story.

Id give this tale of Mr Terror 8.5/10

Black Gas
Avater has released a slew horror and when Avater press do Horror they dont hold back, Crossed being their crowning jewel in there collection. In their ever expanding collection of gore filled sagas zombie's are the prime blood-letters. Warren Ellis weaves a tale of mindless maneating murders with Blackgas a six part mini-series. Set on an volcanic island off the east coast of the United states were introduced to Tyler and Soo two love birds who come to the island to visit Tylers folks. While treking the hills of Smokey island the volcano goes off tossing a foul gas into the lower part of the island resulting in a savage transformation of the locals.The last three issues of the series show the affect of the gas on the mainland.

To tell the truth BlackGas isnt anything we havent seen before and if your a reader of either Avaters Crossed or Night of the living Dead series the shock factor has little merrit here. I mean sure zombie's that bugger their prey is still fucked up but weve seen it in Crossed. Also Ellis dosent linger on our hero's too much so while thier deaths do come as a suprise we havent really connected much with them to give a damn.
Max Fiumara's art is good but you never feel it does the story justice...it's static in parts and it never feels like the zombies are really a threat. but BlackGas's main problem is it's printed buy a company that's done this loads of time before but much much better.

I give this metal zombie tale 6/10