Deep within the backroads of the Pacific Northwest, an entire town fell victim to the brutal cleaver of the Butcher of La Perdita. But that was more than a hundred years ago, and in that time the generational nightmare of murder and meat has been reduced to morbid clickbait folklore for bored travelers to share online. And yet some say the Butcher still haunts the streets at night, seeking fresh meat for his larder. A true Lovecraftian horror? Or just the feverish dreams of a mentally unstable serial killer. Six friends on a road trip are about to find out...
Greenwood delivers some beautiful art in the issue. There are some great visual moments that perfectly capture the tone of the story and the duality of its narrative. Read Full Review
The Butchers Boy starts with a shock, enticing readers to jump into the series with the promise of fear and gore to come. The characters are dysfunctional yet compelling. The art succeeds in the ordinary and mundane while also hinting toward intense horror in the future. The Butchers Boy #1 is a first issue that all fans of bloody, disturbing horror should check out. Read Full Review
Six young adults set out on a road trip to a rural ghost town with a hundred year old slice of folk horror haunting it; readers will certainly recognize familiar tropes in the premise, but the execution of The Butcher's Boy #1 makes it an irresistible new comic book tale of terror. Read Full Review
The Butcher's Boy is the horror story we were hoping it would be. Landry Walker's writing combined with Justin Greenwood's artwork creates a chilling atmosphere and works so well together. Fans of horror are in for a hell of a comic with this debut issue. Read Full Review
'The Butcher's Boy' is for fans of blood and guts, old-school serial killers and folklore, and emotionality as sharp as a hunting knife. Read Full Review
pretty creepy!
Reasonably effective and seems promising. Weaknesses would be that the pace is a little too slow and while the character development is actually well done, it's focused on unsympathetic people who will not be missed.
The beginning is creepy as hell as we jump back and forth in the stories timeline but then it just devolves into one long argument. The characters motivations for taking the road trip and the background into their relationships are welcome but could have been done in fewer pages. The book reminds of Stephen King's Desperation\The Regulators and I was ok with that. Overall the set up takes bit to get through but I think we will be thankful for it by issue two.
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