Comic fans crossovers are nothing new they've been happening for years now and so I thought i'd review a crossover series that not that many people know about it's the sequel to the both the film Freddy Vs Jason and the comic book Freddy Vs Jason Vs Ash Freddy Vs Jason Vs Ash: the Nightmare Warriors.
The plot of the book is Freddy who has been trapped inside the necronomicon since the end of the last crossover finds away to get in touch with Jason and together they plan to take over the world. For a horror crossover book this plot is pretty epic like more epic then it has any right to be but the story is well paced with my only issue is it does get a bit dull at times.
Character wise aside from the titular characters of Freddy , Jason and Ash we pretty much have a who's who of side characters from both A Nightmare On Elm Street and Friday The 13th appearing in this book and i'm not going to mention them all because of spoilers but some of them are Maggie Burroughs (Nightmare) , Stephanie Kimble (Friday) , Alice Johnson and Jacob Johnson (Nightmare) and Tina Shepard (Friday).
I'll admit that the twist in this book really doesn't make any kind of sense and if your a fan of A Nightmare On Elm Street you'll hopefully know what the twist is but it really did have me scratching my head and asking why? and i've tried to come up with an answer and I just can't it just doesn't make any kind of sense at all.
The series has artwork by Jason Craig who along with writers Jeff Katz and James Kuhoric returned to work on this sequel and I have to say art wise the series is pretty hit and miss for the most part the artwork does look pretty good but then you'd get an odd drawing of Ash or a weird looking drawing of Freddy.
Writing wise however the series does fair a little better but not much to be honest alot of what's said will sometimes be out of character anyone who's seen a Freddy movie will know that he swears alot but here he doesn't even in situations where he normally would.
I'm glad that they brought back Alice because she was the best part of Elm Street Parts 4 and 5 and damn did they make her look stunning I was really taken aback by how good looking they made her and then I just wanted to see more scenes with her.
I'm so a shamed to admit this but there was a great little nod to a classic horror film all throughout this series and I never noticed it until I was nearly done and when I did I went "Damn why didn't I notice it before" but tho they also mention the town Haddonfield but i'm sure nothing ever happened there nope nothing at all.
Both this series and it's predecessor are six issues long and for me that's just the right amount of issues because anything longer then that and your going to run into trouble when it comes to the story but with six solid issues it means you get through the story at the right pace.
Overall this is a fairly solid series and I do recommend you read it but before you do watch Freddy Vs Jason and read Freddy vs Jason Vs Ash since this series does spoil what happens at the end of that book and incase your wondering the kills are just ok this book gets a 6.5 out of 10 from me and yes it was published by DC but it was under Wildstorm.