Halloween: The First Death of Laurie Strode #1

October 18, 2008

Halloween: The First Death of Laurie Strode #1 (Devil’s Due Publishing)
By Stefan Hutchinson, Jeff Zornow & Tim Seeley

The new Halloween miniseries is the sort of fill-in-the-blank story that we so often see in comic adaptations of film series. In Halloween: H20, we learn that Laurie Strode faked her death sometime after Halloween II. In the days after Michael Myers’ first killing spree (which you’ll recall actually took place through the first two movies), Laurie Strode buries her friends and tries to complete her senior year of high school while having a semi-normal life. But dreams plague her, visions of Michael terrify her, and an unexpected visit from Sam Loomis says that the rampage of Michael Myers may not be over yet. I’m not the biggest fan of H20, but Hutchinson has a perfect grasp of the characters in this franchise, and the story so far is a great continuation of the story, even bringing in minor characters from the first two films to take part in Laurie’s descent. This is working very well so far.

Rating: 8/10