Taking a cue from the likes of SAW: REBIRTH or THE DEVIL’S REJECTS anthology, the DVD for the excellent new documentary HALLOWEEN: 25 YEARS OF TERROR comes packaged with a bonus comic book, HALLOWEEN: AUTOPSIS, written by the doc’s director, Stefan Hutchinson.
No mere adaptation, AUTOPSIS is an original story based upon some of the franchise characters. It’s told from the point of view of Carter, a photojournalist obsessed with two things: capturing reality on film and capturing photographic proof that serial killer Michael Myers is still very much alive. To that end, he follows around that miserable old coot Dr. Loomis.
Hutchinson’s story is different from what you’d expect and quite well-told, to the point where I forgot Myers should even be making an appearance, and the twist at the end was even nice and sick. But what does it a disservice is the ugly lettering job and the second-rate art of Marcus Smith. Seriously, our hero looks like a Backstreet Boy. As a HALLOWEEN fan myself, I’d like to see more HALLOWEEN comics, only drawn by someone else’s hand. And with a subtitle that the dictionary recognizes as an actual word. –Rod Lott
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