A Refrigerator Full of Heads is the sequel to the hilarious and wacky Hill House Comics/DC A Basket Full of Heads, published by ECC.
When Joe Hill through his line of comics Hill House introduced a horror line in dcin the pure style of the extinct Vertigodid not hesitate to make a great creative team con Dave Stewart, Leomacs y Richard La Bellato publish the successful A basket full of heads.
In A Refrigerator Full of Heads, the screenwriter Rio Youers takes up the fast-paced plot of A Basket Full of Heads, with the events that occurred in the brody’s islandmaking a year pass since these… but the edge of the viking ax he continues to demand heads to be lopped off for having kept readers waiting so long.
Around Brody’s Island
Once he mysterious ax disappeared behind the fort hurricane of the summer of 1983this remained submerged at the bottom of the island’s bay, but such a powerful tool could not remain unknown and buried for long, so a call to be wanted and found again, to continue with his mythical mission.
Viking relics command a high price in A Fridge Full of Heads
The brody’s island has new visitors and tourists, as well as a new sheriff in the city, not to mention the closed beaches to bathers due to the presence of a great white shark sighted in the vicinity of the insular beaches. In this case, a couple of tourists, Calvin Beringer y Arlene Fieldsthey will spend the summer on the island, where they will have a unfortunate meeting with the bikers of the island.
He group of bikers seems to be protected by the new sheriff and when Calvin has an encounter with them things go wrong and he must flee to save his life of them, fleeing towards the coast, but when he was cornered by the gang members decides to jump into the sea and dive, where some strange reflexes from the seabed will get your attention…
A sequel with a life of its own
A fridge full of heads is scripted by Rio Youerswith the Tom Fowler pencils and with Bill Crabtree Colors. This story resembles the blockbuster of the action movies of the eighties and nineties, with action in abundance and dynamic bullets.
Youers involves in action two Department of Defense agents that they have to investigate norse relicsspecifically an ax that keeps heads alive, even though they are severed from the rest of the body, including new characters on Brody’s Island.
The axas a deadly instrument of violence and slaughter is the link between the original plot of A Basket Full of Heads and its sequel, being such a powerful premise that it facilitates a seamless transition between the two stories.
Like a good sequelse maintains a balance between the own story narrated in the current plot and its contextualization of the original work, being very interesting and making the reader want to know more about the story, immersing himself deeply in it.
This does not prevent a part of the story from making explicit references to the plots developed in A basket full of headsmaking its connection grow as a direct sequel, but it never strays from the plot established in this story, so it can be confusing at times for those readers who haven’t read the original story.
The artistic team
Tom Fowler has a characteristic style, with a certain caricature reminiscencelike the one that appeared on movie posters from the late 1980s or early 1990s, in tune with the general atmosphere of the script and its historical setting. This style emphasizes action fast-paced and crazy of the cartoons, in addition to making them more visceral.
The ax protagonist of A fridge full of heads and its prequel, the basket
The tome published by ECC collect all six original staples of the US market while maintaining a general consistency, although in some scenes some sequential vignettes are missing that avoid instantaneous appearances, somewhat detracting from the visual and narrative fluidity of the action.
Along with the colors of Crabtreewhich extol the drawing, we must highlight the font used for the dialogues, because they make it essential to highlight the plot itself, combining perfectly with it and providing more energy to the bulletsas can be seen in the the shark appearsmaking them vibrant and vivid scenes.
A highly recommended comic
Like its predecessor, A Refrigerator Full of Heads is a good story that misleads the reader while offering a visceral action adventure. This comic begins to entertain from the first pages and does not decline at any time, on the contrary, each time it goes further and makes the reader a junkie of the plot, who cannot abandon it until it is finished.
A fridge full of heads – ECC
Original Edition: Refrigerator full of Heads núms. 1-6 USA
Format: 168 pages. In color. Board
The bloodthirsty sequel to the hit comic A Basket Full of Heads!
For a year now, the mysterious ax that wreaked havoc on Brody Island during the ’83 hurricane has lain at the bottom of the bay. But something so powerful couldn’t stay buried forever. As vacationing couple Calvin Beringer and Arlene Fields find themselves in the middle of Brody’s unsavory elements, their walk on the beach leads them to find something much sharper than sea glass…
Return to the bloody shores of Brody Island with this all-new roller coaster from terror-inspirers Rio Youers, Tom Fowler, Craig A. Taillefer and Bill Crabtree. This volume compiles the six issues of the miniseries A Refrigerator Full of Heads, coordinated by the famous writer Joe Hill, as well as several pages of sketches and designs.
