Undertaker #0 (Chaos Comics) Review

Let’s start out with a ***SPOILER ALERT***, just for shits and giggles.
If you don’t want to know anything about the subsequent issues, read this after that review goes live, here on the site, next week.
And in we go.

Now I was severely disappointed by issue 1 when I read it for Patreon last year.
I said it felt like there was a lot of implied back story but no real plot.
Well, with WrestleMania week upon us and The Undertaker’s WWE Hall Of Fame Induction just over 48 hours away, now feels like as good a time as any to find out the following: does this issue 0 give us anymore of that backstory or is it just as confusing?
Like it or not, we’re gonna find out!

***SPOILER ALERT***

Cover by Mike Flippin?: Much like the next issue (review coming to the site next week) it’s just a photo of Taker.
But unlike issue 1, this one actually fills the space well and feels like a much better use of a photo as a cover.

Art by Manny Clark: This one feels a bit looser than the other issue I read.
While Taker & Kane still look really cool, everything else looks a bit more rushed.
The demons and whatnot feel a wee bit more cartoony and far less threatening than the demons in the next issue, which is kind of a cool twist but also a little annoying and inconsistent.

Story by Beau Smith: Fitz got this for me after I posted the review of issue 1, l have read this three times now in the last year and each time I feel a bit dumber for having read it.
It has been about 36 hours since I last read it, and I honestly can’t remember what the fuck happened.
I’m just (not) a simple country doctor, but it is a big fuckin’ problem that both of these issues are utterly forgettable.

I mean, the one thing I can remember is that it does explain the weird demon ring shit.
Taker has some kind of true sight that allows him to see wrestlers as the demons they truly are, while spectators see them as terribly generic wrestlers.
That’s about it.
It’s pretty stunning.
It doesn’t make a tremendous amount of sense, but it does help you understand a bit more than the nonsensical horseshit that was issue 1.

Reading both of these issues, which should be totally up my alley, has been rather exhausting.
And the extra sad thing about this issue is that the bastard is only 12 pages.
It’s just dull.
It would be far better if these issues had no words and were just cool pictures of Taker throwing people around and killing fucked up demons.
The words really drag the whole thing down.

Reading online, Chaos Comics was apparently well known for making incredibly terrible comics.
I am here to confirm this fact.
I don’t think I will read either of these again, and I don’t think I’ll worry about getting anymore issues.
I can’t take it.
Though not as bad, I haven’t been this let down by reading material since I read The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow.
Hard pass.

Special thanks to @ACFerrell1976 for her continued editorial assistance.

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