Nightmare On Elm Street Special (Avatar Press)
Nightmare On Elm Street: Paranoid - Issues 1-3 (Avatar Press)
Nightmare On Elm Street Fearbook (Avatar Press)
Nightmare On Elm Street: Freddy's War - Issues 1-4 (WildStorm Comics)
No one knows why New Line took the licence from Avatar and gave it to WildStorm - and we'll probably never know. However, that is what happened and they launched the comic with this four issue story.
It is the story of Jade, an Army Brat who moves to Springwood with her Dad and Brother. As such she has no clue as to the existence of Freddy Krueger. Like most of the other post-Freddy Vs. Jason tales, this story takes place in a Springwood which is well aware of Freddy and what he can do.
As far as I can remember, they never state explicitly that the house Jade moves into is is 1428 Elm, I assume it is. That's the way these stories go, outsider moves in to 1428 and that opens up a shitstorm. The first question I have to ask is - why don't they just knock the fucker down. Whenever anyone moves there, all this shit blows up and... well, wouldn't it be easier just to get rid of it?
So anyway, Jades brothers snuffs it pretty quickly. Freddy torches him, and Jade and the father attend his funeral and then go for pancakes. As you do. Anyway, Jade goes to school and faces Freddy herself. Then she makes a friend, an outsider Goth chick who recounts Freddy's origin. The problem is, it's all a bit rushed and predictable. The first Friday The 13th comic story from the same company went on a lot longer, which gave the characters some real time to develop. Here... it's just very rushed.
For Freddy's Origin... well, they pretty much get the whole thing wrong. Freddy worked in the boiler room of some factory or another - not in the school basement. Also, there is only one (difficult to spot) reference to him being a paedophile in the original series - in all other instances he was refered to as a child killer, nothing more. So they didn't do their homework - funnily enough the origin matches really well with the Nightmare remake, which would be released a couple of years earlier. This kinda dissapointed me, it showed that the people who were working on this didn't really have a clue about Freddy Krueger.
So they decide to fight Freddy together, only the goth girl gets all cut up and dies. So Jade tells her dad, who believes her straight away (huh?) and goes into her dream with her - armed to the fucking teeth, cause he's an army guy. Then there's a big fight scene... anyway Jade ends up dead and her organs save some little kid. Like I said before, the whole thing just feels rushed - and they missed something by having Jade's father believe what she said straight away... really, it's entertaining enough... but there's not a whole lot of story there.
Nightmare On Elm Street: The Demon Of Sleep - Issues 5-7 (WildStorm Comics)
Nightmare On Elm Street: Double Shift - Issue 8 (WildStorm Comics)
New Line Cinemas Tales Of Horror - Issue 1 (WilsStorm Comics)
Nightmare On Elm Street: Paranoid - Issues 1-3 (Avatar Press)
Nightmare On Elm Street Fearbook (Avatar Press)
Nightmare On Elm Street: Freddy's War - Issues 1-4 (WildStorm Comics)No one knows why New Line took the licence from Avatar and gave it to WildStorm - and we'll probably never know. However, that is what happened and they launched the comic with this four issue story.
It is the story of Jade, an Army Brat who moves to Springwood with her Dad and Brother. As such she has no clue as to the existence of Freddy Krueger. Like most of the other post-Freddy Vs. Jason tales, this story takes place in a Springwood which is well aware of Freddy and what he can do.
As far as I can remember, they never state explicitly that the house Jade moves into is is 1428 Elm, I assume it is. That's the way these stories go, outsider moves in to 1428 and that opens up a shitstorm. The first question I have to ask is - why don't they just knock the fucker down. Whenever anyone moves there, all this shit blows up and... well, wouldn't it be easier just to get rid of it?
So anyway, Jades brothers snuffs it pretty quickly. Freddy torches him, and Jade and the father attend his funeral and then go for pancakes. As you do. Anyway, Jade goes to school and faces Freddy herself. Then she makes a friend, an outsider Goth chick who recounts Freddy's origin. The problem is, it's all a bit rushed and predictable. The first Friday The 13th comic story from the same company went on a lot longer, which gave the characters some real time to develop. Here... it's just very rushed.
For Freddy's Origin... well, they pretty much get the whole thing wrong. Freddy worked in the boiler room of some factory or another - not in the school basement. Also, there is only one (difficult to spot) reference to him being a paedophile in the original series - in all other instances he was refered to as a child killer, nothing more. So they didn't do their homework - funnily enough the origin matches really well with the Nightmare remake, which would be released a couple of years earlier. This kinda dissapointed me, it showed that the people who were working on this didn't really have a clue about Freddy Krueger.
So they decide to fight Freddy together, only the goth girl gets all cut up and dies. So Jade tells her dad, who believes her straight away (huh?) and goes into her dream with her - armed to the fucking teeth, cause he's an army guy. Then there's a big fight scene... anyway Jade ends up dead and her organs save some little kid. Like I said before, the whole thing just feels rushed - and they missed something by having Jade's father believe what she said straight away... really, it's entertaining enough... but there's not a whole lot of story there.
Nightmare On Elm Street: The Demon Of Sleep - Issues 5-7 (WildStorm Comics)
Nightmare On Elm Street: Double Shift - Issue 8 (WildStorm Comics)
New Line Cinemas Tales Of Horror - Issue 1 (WilsStorm Comics)
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