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Staff Picks (April): Evil Dead 2 - Beyond Dead By Dawn #1

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As a fan of Mel Brooks’ movies I immediately took to the slapstick style of Army of Darkness and its lead actor, Bruce Campbell. The movie’s tag line “Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.” sounded fun and the guy had a chainsaw for a hand on the cover with zombies ("Deadites" in the film) trying to murder him.

Bruce was playing the role of Ashley “Ash” J. Williams. Ash was an S-Mart store clerk from the housewares department looking to take his girl out to a cabin in the woods for a romantic weekend with some of their friends, when they accidentally stumble onto the Necronomicon Ex Mortis. They accidentally unleash evil spirits, lots of them die, and Ash gets sent backwards in time through a portal to fight the Deadites in the past. This was all in the first few minutes of the movie! Later, when I watched Evil Dead 2, I would realize that they were recapping the events of that film and that Army of Darkness was a sequel to that movie. The one-liners were campy, the special effects were hilarious, and there were other movies set in the same universe.

While Army of Darkness was the sequel to Evil Dead 2, the folks at Space Goat Productions are giving fans another sequel to Evil Dead 2 but from a different perspective. Evil Dead 2: Beyond Dead by Dawn #1 picks up just where the movie left off (just like Army of Darkness), but this time instead of following Ash through the portal, we will see what happened next in that cabin in the woods.

The comic will follow Annie Knowby, who was last seen reciting the final incantations from the Necronomicon to banish the evil from our world just as she was stabbed in the back by a dagger held by Ash’s Deadite-possessed severed hand. This new installment in the Evil Dead franchise answers a question I’ve often wondered. Where do the souls of the dead go when the Deadites claim them? Will Annie be able to fight her way back to the land of the living to shop at S-Mart again, or will she become one of the Deadites looking to swallow our souls for eternity?

Head back to the cabin this June with Evil Dead 2: Beyond Dead by Dawn #1, written by Frank Hannah (Batman Arkham Origins - AUG140339) with art by Barnaby Beganda.

—Matt Demory

Article Image a6bcPublisher: Space Goat Productions
Item Code: APR151694
Release Date: 
6/24/15
SRP:
$3.99
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