Cutter

Cutter #1-4

by Robert Place Napton, Seamus Kevin Fahey, Christian Dibari (Illustrator)

What if that kid you and your friends picked on in your youth came back with a vengeance…to kill you and your friends? That dark guilt-ridden fear is at the core of CUTTER, a cautionary tale about the sins of your past coming back to haunt you. From television writer SEAMUS KEVIN FAHEY (Battlestar Galactica, The Following) and comic writer ROBERT NAPTON (SON OF MERLIN), with art by acclaimed horror artists CHRISTIAN DIBARI & MAAN HOUSE. Collects CUTTER #1-4

Genres: Comics

120 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 18, 2017

Reviews

[Shai · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like the illustrations in this graphic novel, because it shows the mystery and the horror that it wants to depict. I'm just not satisfied with how quite predictable the story is. Hence, I gave this a fair rating instead of a higher mark.



Thanks to Image Comics for the reading copy.

[Chad · Rating 1 out of 5]

Utterly generic vengeance horror comic about a woman who comes back for revenge on those who wronged her. It's lazy writing, full of too many pointless characters and logic leaps.

Received an advance copy from Image and Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.

[Robert · Rating 3 out of 5]

Stark graphic and a quick pace, but a rather ho-hum storyline all together.

[Stormi (StormReads) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Horror graphic novel about vengeance. People start getting killed in a gruesome way and the killer is dubbed the Cutter, one guy figures out who it is or at least he thinks it's her but she is suppose to be dead. Not sure I was real keen on the ending which is why it gets 3 stars (though really 3.5). If you like horror though give it a try as it was pretty good.

I wish they illustrations were in color, I don't know if since I got an eARC if it was before it got color or if they just went for black and white, but they had some color illustration in the back and they were so cool.

[Paul Allard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Serial killer comic collection in black and white

In a small town in the US, a serial killer strikes, out for revenge. The body count is high and there’s plenty of blood and violence. The central character discovers who the culprit is. The series is also about the effects of bullying, a phenomenon of the US and UK.

With reasonably clear black-and-white illustrations, this is well-told and quite good.

[Dave · Rating 1 out of 5]

I love slashers and this had some nice art, but the characters were paper thin and utterly forgettable. Very little effort was made to make us invest in any of them, and the plot moved like a rocket ship. So, some deaths felt utterly meaningless. Then the reveal of what's going on made me care about the characters even less. And the comic just came to an abrupt stop.

[Emma · Rating 1 out of 5]

What started out as an interesting concept quickly fell flat. The story moves way too quickly with no attempt at building suspense or allowing the reader to come up with their own theories.

Characters aren't explored properly and I can barely remember some of their names.

[Chris Browning · Rating 1 out of 5]

I read this while taking part in a wildly unhelpful online conversation with a bank and, honestly, it helped make that conversation not half as bad as it otherwise would have been because this is among the worst professionally published comics I have ever, ever read

[Kenny · Rating 4 out of 5]

Extreme slasher saga. Bloody fun.

[Julian · Rating 2 out of 5]

The protagonist’s faces were funny, but I don’t think that was intentional.

[Alex Sarll]

A series of gruesome deaths in a small town all seem to tie back to the death of a bullied girl twenty years ago...but did she really die? The problem being, none of the available answers are new anymore, are they? There's absolutely nothing novel here in terms of plot, technique, characterisation. Red herrings are left unexplained but that feels more lazy than deliberately unsettling. Utterly generic.

(Edelweiss ARC)