Army of Darkness vs Reanimator Necronomicon Rising

by Erik Burnham, Eman Casallos (Artist), Jorge Sutil (Colorist)

HORROR ICONS CLASH!

When an archaeological dig unveils an important element from the world of the Army of Darkness, it ends up in the absolute worst hands of Dr. Herbert West's. As West tinkers in God's domain, our reluctant hero is once more drawn into the sphere of destiny as he faces a triple threat of danger!

Writer Erik Burnham is joined by returning Dynamite artist Eman Casallos to bring you all the excitement and Deadite action!

Genres: Comics, Horror, Graphic Novels

128 pages, Paperback

Published May 21, 2024

About the author

Erik Burnham is a Minnesotan writer and artist that first broke into comics with a series of humorous short stories in the Shooting Star Comics Anthology. These stories featured his original creation, Nick Landime, and culminated in a one-shot: Nick Landime vs. the World Crime League, published by Shooting Star in 2005.

Off and on, in this same time period, Erik also produced a short run of an online strip, The Down Side, until technical issues wore him down. He aims to return to the strip one day.

In 2007, Erik found produced work for two other anthologies – a short humor piece for History Graphics Press’ Civil War Adventures #1, and a horror story for Gene Simmons’ House of Horror #3, produced by IDW Publishing.

This lead to several other projects for IDW, up to and including his critically acclaimed run on the ongoing GHOSTBUSTERS comic book.

Erik has worked on other projects not related to comic books, and hopes one day to share those with the public at large. In the meantime, he still lives quietly in Minnesota; any rumors about this being because he’s completely afraid of the forty-nine other states (and Canada) remain unverified at this time.

Reviews

[Jesse A · Rating 3 out of 5]

A little cartoon-y but not without some fun to it.

[Brandon Roy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun but not as good I feel as their first meeting which not being mentioned here means alternate timeline. It had some fun moments but was definitely more AOD and Ash then Re-Animator.

[Danielle · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this so much, this is everything to me. A crossover between two of my favourite horror franchises? Sign me up! I have no criticims, I genuinely enjoyed everything about it. I want to read more in this universe!

[Marla Hectic · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just a fun read that gets elevated by how much I always enjoy these two being absolute messes and pretty neat art
HOW DOES HERBERT MANAGE TO ALWAYS POP INTO THE HOTTEST GUYS?!

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was more than a little disappointed in the last time Ash and Herbert West crossed paths since West didn't really do anything, so I was happy to see that they got a second chance to play together. We even get two Herberts, because time travel, and another prophecy-slash-curse which was played for hilarious effect.

The sidekick character was a bit one note mostly because she couldn't say much without causing Deadites to spawn, but Ash gets to stab people with a chainsaw, West(s) get to stab people with re-animator reagent, and Deadites get to die all while I'm laughing at the terrible jokes everyone's slinging around.

A very good time for all involved, unless you're a Deadite. Or Herbert West. Or Ash. Or-

Maybe just a very good time for the reader.

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Eric Burnham is no stranger to crossing over properties. He's done a bunch of them over at IDW. Now he's over at Dynamite mixing it up with Ash and the Doctor from Re-Animator and it works surprisingly well. Nice mix of humor and horror for Evil Dead fans. The art's not bad either.

[Steven Shinder · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think I'd consider this the best of the crossovers between Army of Darkness and Re-Animator. This has no continuity with the previous crossovers, but AOD has had alternate timelines anyway. Ash even gets to show off how much he knows. The ending feels like such a retread, though.