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While doing so, the two were ambushed by a gang called the 23rd Street Killers. After Vickie told him that if the baby was a boy, they should name it after him, Jonny, overjoyed, proposed to Vickie. While on their way home, Vickie revealed to Jonny that she was pregnant. One night, in May 2007, the couple went out to the store. Jonny lived in Los Angeles with his girlfriend, Vickie Wright.
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Released May 7, 2014.Born sometime in 1983, Jonny was an acclaimed comic book artist and writer, whose best work was a series entitled Blue (which involved a female android attending a futuristic high school). Joshua Williamson (W), Mike Henderson (A) If the writing and the art can find the right balance, Nailbiter could very well fulfill its incredible potential. But for all its strengths it feels like it falls just shy of something special.
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It is a promising story full of intrigue and suspense from two incredibly adept comic book creators. It almost feels as if Williamson and Henderson are taking turns telling the story, and this first issue suffers for it. Likewise, when the art is at its best and most potent, the writing adds very little.
But instead of supporting the writing dynamically, the art here is a passive partner. That’s not to say that the art is bad in fact, Henderson’s rendering of the Book Burner’s terrible acts is beautiful. Instead of compounding the suspense of the Book Burner story, the art merely illustrates. Unfortunately, all of that brilliant visual work is lost as soon as the writing takes over.
This visual theme returns in the final panel, reigniting that suspense and leaving the reader wanting more. Using his sound effects – specifically a pounding “thump thump” – to separate page-wide panels, he creates an unrelenting pace in those opening pages that both reinforces the tension of the police bust and also the quiet turmoil of Finch’s own dilemma on the very next page. Mike Henderson’s art contributes to this visceral experience of the story, especially through his panel layouts in the first four pages. How much of the story is exaggeration? Is the story even true? Can the Book Burner’s grandson be trusted? And that shift in narrative framing thrusts the reader into the position of Carroll, and by extension Finch – that is, of the conspiracy theorist attempting to decipher clues as to how these killers are connected. Where the Nailbiter’s story is presented as fact, the manner in which we learn about the Book Burner leaves the story open to interpretation. The Book Burner’s own grandson relates the story to Finch as he explains his curious serial killer souvenir shop. The former is presented as the account laid out in a police report the latter, on the other hand, is presented more in the vein of a ghost story. Two of the Buckaroo Butchers are introduced in this issue: the Nailbiter and the Book Burner. That is to say, the information provided to the reader is equally important to how and when it is provided. Writer Joshua Williamson demonstrates an understanding that intrigue and suspense applies not only to a story’s content, but also its form. It has elements of horror, mystery, and conspiracy woven all the way through and, like the story’s protagonists, it is difficult to resist wanting to learn everything about this town and these killers. When the local sheriff informs Finch that Carroll has gone missing, the two decide to follow up on his investigation, forcing them to go to the unconscionably acquitted Nailbiter for assistance.
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Three years later, Army Intelligence officer Nicholas Finch arrives in Buckaroo, called in by Carroll, who claims to have cracked the mystery behind the town’s legacy of serial murder. The town’s reputation is tarnished by a long lineage of local serial killers – 16 in total – colloquially referred to as the Buckeroo Butchers, of which Nailbiter was the most recent. Nailbiter #1 opens with Carroll leading a police bust on the residence of Edward “Nailbiter” Warren, a cannibalistic serial killer in Buckaroo, Oregon a small town with a disturbing legacy. What makes a serial killer? Is it the result of childhood trauma? Is it a learned behaviour from bad societal influences like violent video games and films? Or are some people just born evil? For Eliot Carroll, the answer might be something more sinister. Joshua Williamson and Mike Henderson bring incredible individual talent to this dark, intriguing comic, but fall just short of a cohesive approach to storytelling.
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