Halloween Man #3
vs. The Invisible Man, Part 3 of 4
Written by Drew Edwards
Art and Lettering by Sergio Calvet

Halloween Man is a straight up indie comic book. You probably won’t find it in your local comic shops, and you won’t see it on the racks at any chain bookstores, but you can find it online. Before today, I had heard about the character, but I’ve never read a single issue. And I’m glad that has been rectified. The comic is about a reanimated corpse that fights monsters alongside his caretaker/girlfriend. It deal with horror elements, and Halloween Man wears a jack-o-lantern t-shirt, which I have to say is a style that I envy.

In the current Halloween Man storyline, writer Drew Edwards is taking the title character through a very not-for-all-ages story, as the hero is trying to stop and kill an unknown monster who is murdering workers at a nearby fetish house. In the previous issue, we find out, however, that the killer is The Invisible Man, who has the opportunity to do and torture whoever he chooses because no one can see him commit his felonious acts of malice. This is the penultimate chapter in this storyline and it leaves me wanting more.

Ashcan #1 & #2
Written by Mike Murphy
Art by Celina Hernandez, Sergio Calvet, Mike Murphy, Ray Johnson
Chibi Comics
Release Date: April, August 2011
Cover Price: $2.00
Digital Price: $.50

A quarterly anthology of four stories, Ashcan gives the reader a wide variety of stories that are bound to please almost everyone. Since I’m reviewing two comics at once, I will just break this up into four parts and speak to each story separately since they have no correlation with one another.

Newborn has a bit of a minimalist approach to the art, it’s very basic but it helps to keep the reader focused on the story which is, at this point, a little unclear. The first issue contains a scene from a bedroom involving two people talking in bed. The second shows us more of a femme fatale angle and I’m guessing the December issue will tie these together for us.