Re-Animator: Death is Just the Beginning…

by Steven Philip Jones, Christopher Jones (Illustrator)

Adaptation of the movie Re-Animator, itself a loose adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's horror story Herbert West: Re-Animator.

Genres: Horror, Comics

96 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1992

About the author

Steven Philip Jones (born March 20, 1960) is an American writer. His best known works include the horror-adventure comics series Nightlinger, the mystery novel King of Harlem, and the non-fiction books The Clive Cussler Adventures: A Critical Review and Comics Writing: Communicating with Comic Books.

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 3 out of 5]

A severed head, a syringe full of green goop, and a mad scientist: it's Re-Animator time! I'd say that the Dave Dorman cover painting for this comic book adaptation of the cult horror film Re-Animator is HEAD and shoulders above the work of his peers. Steven Philip Jones (the writer) and Christopher Jones (the illustrator) of this adaptation take some creative liberties with the movie. When the writer and artist are firing on all cylinders that approach adds value to the first half of Re-Animator: Death is Just the Beginning. However, everything falls apart in the second half of the book when the creative team just seems to give up on the script and artwork, resulting in a very lackluster final act.

[Ada]

Some significant departures from the film, which was a pretty faithful adaptation of the first part of the Lovecraft story, albeit modernized heavily. You could see how the medium affected the content - some of the things that were conveyed via wordless expressions and gestures in the film had to be explicitly written out as dialogue here, and that meant other moments were dwelt on a little less. It's a bare-bones version of the film, and while I did appreciate the panel with the bone saw and the body, I did find it less entertaining than the film. Camp doesn't always translate easily from the screen to the static comic page.

Or maybe I'm just spoiled from reading too many Vertigo comics.

[Donavon · Rating 3 out of 5]

very faithful adaption of film. final fate of West is slightly changed, perhaps to line up with sequels..