Issue 3 of IDW’s horror comics magazine the second issue of DOOMED makes the title even more magazine-y than ever before, with a text feature appearing after each comic – book reviews, DVD reviews, fiction and the usual interview (this one about horror author Jack Ketchum‘s memories of friend Robert Bloch). But make no mistake: DOOMED’s emphasis remains graphic … in more ways than one!
An adaptation of Bloch’s “Fat Chance” opens the issue, and is the best of the four (as always, the issue adapts short stories from Richard Matheson, F. Paul Wilson and David J. Schow) – a jet-black-humored tale about a man plotting to kill his wife because she’s ballooned to obesity over the years. Matheson’s “The Children of Noah” finds a tourist trapped in a small town by the cops, while Wilson’s “Pelts” has bad news in store for fur trappers who skin a family of awfully strange-looking critters. Only Schow’s “Visitation” fails to take flight.
IDW has a great thing going with this oversized, black-and-white magazine – dotted screens and all. The half-year waits between issues are about the only thing I can complain about it. –Rod Lott
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OTHER BOOKGASM REVIEWS OF THIS SERIES:
• DOOMED #1
• DOOMED #2
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