Jeepers Creepers #3
Dynamite Entertainment
Writer: Marc Andreyko
Artist: Kewber Baal
I think most of us are familiar with this series via the movie franchise under MGM. I was one of the people who was excited to see the first movie in theaters and really enjoyed it. We won’t discuss the sequels since the quality just fell off after the first film. Now, Dynamite has brought us more of the Creeper in a format we all love: COMICS!
If you missed the first two issues, let me catch you up. Devon is writing his thesis on the Aztec mythology of the Creeper. He travels to Mexico to visit a lost Aztec city. While in Mexico he is given an ancient dagger by a random elderly woman. Devon cuts his finger on the blade and the Creeper is drawn to the blood. Cut to Devon traveling to a Cherokee reservation in North Carolina where he meets an Indian who seems to know more information on the Creeper. After a vision quest where we learn the Creeper dates back at least to the first man, Devon is left back in his car. Now we are set up for Issue #3.
Devon is still coming to grips with what he learned on his vision quest and how he was injured while on the quest and has already healed. Now, for no reason, Devon goes to the infamous town of Roanoke. Let’s be clear: this series so far has been a mess. Our main character has no reasons for all of these travels and all of the predicaments he gets himself into are just useless.
On top of these story issues, we are treated to absolutely bad dialogue. At times it’s just terrible. The characters just don’t talk organically and conversations just end in the middle of themselves. Case and point in this issue when Devon sits down with a woman in Roanoke. Andreyko is not a veteran in the comics game and he is not an amateur either (the guy wrote with Bendis on Torso!)
Baal’s art isn’t going to WOW anyone. If there was one word to describe it, it would be “serviceable”. His art was actually better in the first two issues. In Baal’s defense, Andreyko didn’t take the story anywhere that Baal could display the art he does best. For anyone interested, the mythology flashback in Issue #1 was the height of the art for this series so far.
I’m not going to keep beating this dead horse. In the hands of another storyteller, the mythology of the Creeper and a continuation of his story could be good. I don’t know where Andreyko is taking this story, but up this point, he was wasted our time.
Jeepers Creepers #3
So far, the Jeepers Creepers license is being put to waste in more than one medium. Dynamite's comic series is no exception.
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