A Nightmare on Elm Street

[david r]

Hey, did anyone else pick up the launch of WildStorm's A Nightmare on Elm Street?

A great cover. Really caught my eye. I'd have to say I was somewhat disappointed with the actual story. Very little Freddy Krueger here; I was expecting more from Chuck Dixon.

I'm hoping that the quality WildStorm is known for will be here for Freddy's new title, and the other horror books comin' up. But this first issue was not as good as I'd hoped. Maybe it'll improve. Did anyone else give this a try?

[tjarvis]

Being a horror junkie, I flipped through it, but wasn't overly impressed.

I don't know, I kind of feel like horror, ecspecially of the slasher variety, is just a hard sell for modern comics.

[Young Avenger]

I filpped through it at the shop and I wasn't inpressed. Whoever is doing art is wrong for this book. They should have gotton something like David Aja on this.

[the goddamn batman]

They should have just not made it. This and Friday the 13th are stupid!

I'm sorry, but 80's slasher flicks do not make a good comic.

What's wrong with an original idea?

Titles like Automatic Kafka get cut 3 issues early due to poor sales, because DC wont bother to even promote them, yet, I've seen many adverts for this crap.

Wildcats 3.0 got cut due to poor sales, again, lack of proper promotion.

Hopefully this will disapear quickly too.

Enough with the licensed bullpups.

You want horror? Go buy IDW's 'DOOMED!' it's a horror mag, with short horror stories (in comic form) in each issue, as well as all kinds of other horror related stuff.

Sorry for being so negative, but this crap pisses me off. I hate Marvel and DC's endless pursuit of more crap comics. Then wonder why sales suck, and girls read manga.:rolleyes:

[Sleeper]

There was gore and there was blood and that was about all I could bother to take from the comic. Was left with a feeling of having eaten a potato, raw with no sauce on the side. Wasn't doing anything.

[Hulkamaniac]

I feel you guys, I happened to be on a comic book binge that week and I bought the variant edition with the Bradstreet cover of all things, and I gotta tell you I was left feeling empty buy the end. It was one of those issues that screamed "this story will get going by issue 5" it just left me wanting, y'know?
i'm gonna wait until I see these in the cheap bins, where it's going to end up eventually.:p

[swinebread]

What is the deal anyway, did Avatar Press lose contract to publish Nightmare?

[JohnPopa]

The Wildstorm book felt like 'A Nightmare on Elm Street For Kids.' The Avatar books may have been primitive and sleazy at times, but at least they felt like horror books. Dixon's plot was rudimentary (and him having Freddy fight a military guy feels like a writer totally shoehorning a concept into their own comfort zone) and the art was bland - needlessly bright and devoid of any tone or style.

[david r]

Hey, issue 2 came out. Freddy Krueger appears on three whole pages. We are improving!

[JohnPopa]

That last page was enough for me. What a joke. I'm done with this nonsense.

[Jason J]

Avatar spent time and money bring these guys to comics Freddy Jason and the Texas Chain Saw massacre. Ok the books were full of half naked folks and gore all over but umm hang on have you seen the moves that’s what they were about, that was the point. These comics were written by people who had an active interest in the books and the characters, they had fun doing it and you could tell from the flow of the storylines. Ok we didn’t need 20 odd covers for a 3 issue mini but I can forgive that when the story is good, or at the very least entertaining. This wildstorm version is sh*t. Pure and simple. In fact it’s more than that it’s cynical money grabbing sh*t. This is a case of oh well any old wank will do because people will buy it. This book should be caned by issue 6 or they should bring in a whole new team.

I defy anyone over the age of 12 and who isn’t Chuck “CareBare” Dixon to enjoy this book. It’s simply not possible. Avatar were screwed out of the rights because the parent companies wanted everything in house, well this is what you get when creativity stagnates. Comics by formula aimed at a highly juvenile market. Yes folks this is Freddy for kids, written by the numbers, with no real overriding plot (oh look there’s a stereo typical goth and a scary half dead little girl it must be good). Character development is wasted because by page 4 of issue one I WANT them all to die that’s how bad the writing is. I think Chuck Dixon needs to find a character with a cape and stick to that, or perhaps he would be more suited to writing a remake of Captain Planet because his horror writing is only frightening for there poor quality and lack of narrative skill. Welcome to nightmare on wildstorm street, the place in which the biggest plot development is a character saying the word ass… That last page in issue two has to be one of the saddest comic moments I have witnessed, you know someone out there thought that was just superfabulosiss. Newsflash: It fu*king wasnt.
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[Hulkamaniac]

nicely written Jason J, I enjoyed your post 1000 times more than the actual comic. I thank you kind sir. :)

[SKETCHSANCHEZ]

Yes folks this is Freddy for kids, written by the numbers, with no real overriding plot (oh look there’s a stereo typical goth and a scary half dead little girl it must be good).

You just described the Avatar books.

Art aside (which was gorgeous), the Avatar books were HORRIBLE. By the numbers which just rehashed plot points and concepts from Freddy Vs. jason with a downright ridiculous clown freddy spouting the worst one liners I've ever read.

Some of those gems included "Hasta la pasta, I'm so multi cultural!", gag.

I welcomed this change to Wildstorm. i was tired of the lack of plot, I was tired of the delays, tired of the idiotic stereotypes for characters (which were WORSE than anything we ever got in any of the movie, I didnt think that was even possible), I was tired of the millions of ad's for the tons of varient covers in the back. I'm glad Avatar lost the licence.

I'm gonna miss the art, but I'm damn glad.

That said, I dont like this particular story thus far, but at least it seems to be a story. The art is terribly pedestrian, its just..."there". Good story teller, but no style. No flash.

Now if we had this story with the avatar art, I think we'd be on to something.

[david r]

#3-- Freddy's War!

Well.....at least Freddy appeared on several pages here. The finale had one hell of an explosion too! This first arc is over so maybe the next one will be better.

Did anyone else read #3?

[hrblsh]

I liked the first arc. There is a new artist starting next issue, Joel Gomez. + Ben Oliver covers. not bad... Don't know have to see the art. Not exactly a "Kids" comic since it says Mature Readers right on the cover. Hope it keeps getting better, apparently something about Aztec gods in the next arc?