Freddy Krueger meets his match

[cyberghostface]

One of the comics published by Wildstorm's 'New Line Horror' imprint was a Nightmare on Elm Street series by Chuck Dixon. It was a mixed bag but it had some good moments, the highlight of which was the fourth issue. 

In the first three issues, there was a subplot with a little girl who, being in a coma, could lapse back and forth between Freddy's world and ours without being hurt. At the end, she got a heart transplant and came out of the coma, but as this issue shows, her abilities didn't go away.





So the issue goes like this for a bit, with the little girl constantly harassing poor Freddy and generally making his life miserable and preventing him from carving up teenagers.









Cut for legality (the entire issue wasn't about Lacey's antics, after all) was a subplot with Freddy selecting a teenager on the "outside" to kill Lacey for him. He fails, and is mortally wounded by the police. The teen considers his fate to be a better alternative than falling asleep and risking Freddy's wrath.

At the end of the issue...

Comments

[janegray]

Siskel and Ebert, who actually put out the *addresses and contact details* of the filmmakers for the Friday series - what the fuck

Seriously???

What the hell is wrong with people.

[deepspaceartist]

To be fair, this was likely before the internet and doxing were things. So contacting such people required time, effort and money, and the info only went out to a relatively small number of people, thus making modern internet level harassment and threats unlikely. When Siskel and Ebert did it it probably only resulted in a handful of phone calls and sternly worded letters.

Still a dick move, but not the life-destroying asshole move it would be today.

[mrstatham]

They actually did it on their TV show, which would have had plenty of viewers at the time. The first Friday movie also resulted in the same kind of farcical picketing from overzealous parents and the like that dogged Silent Night, Deadly Night (another interesting slasher flick with very well done characterisation). So.. Yeah. As much as Siskel and Ebert were held in incredibly high regard - and in some instances rightfully so - it was a total dick move, alongside their apparent inability to recognise that a series was hitting the marks it was aiming for very well. Their review of Friday Part IV, for instance, is incredibly ridiculous in it's doom-mongering.