![]() ![]() The satirical value of using a masked murder as a stand-in for more familiar American forms of mass violence is pretty light and doesn't build much on what was already done in Volume 1. Unfortunately, we don't get much from this volume beside those big set pieces. Kudos to Kalan for using the medium to create scenarios that would never fly on the big screen. This volume sees the unstoppable Maniac Harry visit death on a private, for-profit charter school in the Bronx before heading to Yankee Stadium on opening day. (I don't claim this is high literature, but it's an idea that might interest fans of the genre). I don't think I'm speaking out of turn if I suggest that one of Elliott Kalan's goals for this comic is to take a better pass at the concept that was botched by "Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan." That concept is what it might look like if you took a slasher movie, typically a genre set in isolated locales on dark nights, and transplants it to the city that never sleeps. ![]()
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