Joshua Williamson
& Mike Henderson “Nailbiter Vol. 1: There Will Be Blood” (Image, 2014)
Did it all start with Silence
of the Lambs and Hannibal Lector? I’m not sure, but at some point if you
had a cop, then you had to have a serial killer. Based on our popular entertainment, you’d
think that America is a nation of serial killers & future victims.
So what happened? Why
are our fictions overrun with sadists with genius level IQs? There’s a sense
that Nailbiter is engaging with that
question, at least obliquely. Buckaroo
Oregon is the home of 16 of the weirdest serial killers on record. Of course they all have crazy gimmicks, like
80s WWF wrestlers, because that’s how serial killers roll (see basically every
TV police procedural for evidence).
Nicholas Finch shows up in town because his friend and lawman Eliot
Carroll calls & says he’s figured it all out. Of course Carroll has now disappeared (shades
of Twin Peaks!). But Sheriff Shannon
Crane is on hand to help search for him.
Their search leads them to murders, bodies, and buckets of
gore.
By the end of this volume I didn’t have all my questions
answered. In fact, I had more than at
the start. But I had been entertained
and found myself deeper on the hook than before. What is with Buckaroo? I need to know more…
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