Lewis Lovhaug: Linkara, Freddy Krueger

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• Linkara : Last year, I talked about "The Thing From Another World", the comic book sequel to John Carpenter's masterpiece, "The Thing". I've gushed enough about that film to the point where you should have seen it by now. And if not, go do that! The comic story... was not very good. Sacrificing the claustrophobic paranoia of the film, it embraced action and only mild paranoia. The rules about the alien creature changed a bit from the movie to the comic, and the main character, MacReady, now relied entirely upon incredible luck and coincidence to survive. However, the end of the story had MacReady pretty much where he was at the end of the movie: freezing to death after having seemingly killed it, this time on a submarine. It had bad science, some poor examples of sequential storytelling, and a weak story overall as a follow-up to the film. But it had its positive points, the main one being the artwork, which did kind of a semi-realistic, painted style that, while it had hiccups in the idea of comic book storytelling, still looked pretty damn good. Hey, guess what we lose in today's comics! Yes, instead of leaving well enough alone with the one sequel, Dark Horse decided they needed another sequel, this one four issues instead of the two from last time, and of course, even more ridiculous in its contrivances and with worse artwork.