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In Autopsy Room #1 is Modern Grind House/Horror icon Rob Zombie and his horrific tale, "The Nail." The Nail is a blend of "Race with the Devil" meets "House of 1000 Corpses". So yeah, it's a typical Rob Zombie gore-fest but Steve Niles, who co-wrote this book with Zombie, is obviously keeping Rob Zombie grounded, and thankfully so.
Meet Nail, an extreme underground UFC-type fighter that decided to take his family and a few friends on a road trip in a Winnebago to his next underground fight. But there's a catch. They are traveling through the territory of some nasty, demonic, undead mother-fuckers and now it's time for Nail and his friends to kick some Satan-worshiping ass.
Nail gets a solid B grade from me. But parents, be forewarned that this is an adult comic.
Verotic is like "Dark Horse Presents" meets a truly demonic porn movie. This image, (below/right), is basically the only image from the Verotic comic series that I can show on my family friendly review site. Every other page has various forms of nudity, direct depictions of drug use or explicit sexual content contained in the page.
If you want true misogyny this is your series.
I wasn't a fan of Verotik, yet I read eight issues before saying no more. And why would I do that? I was trying to find some saving grace for this comic series so I could say something nice about it. But alas, there is none. To prove my point the first book opens with this story:
A demon graphically rapes a woman to death while telling her that she'll like it. The demon then leaves her corpse in the room to rot. But his seed along with the blood of the dead woman mix and the corpse gestates a new demon and the woman's corpse is torn apart during the newborn demon's birthing process. All of the stories in all of the eight books I read were nothing more that variation on this basic plot.
I have come to the personal conclusion that this series is nothing more than a venue for a collection of artists and writers to express their hatred for women and their love of everything demonic. Sure it's art, but it is not that great. The stories are all based on the same basic premise with the same motivation; to violate women. Nearly all of the stories are demonic and sexual in nature. And by sexual in nature I mean they show actual penetration, in just about every book and multiple times in numerous books.
The series is violent, satanic, dark and vile. All of which came as no surprise to me since Danzig's name is all over this. But rapey and misogynistic? That I did not expect, even from Danzig. I don't normally mind comics with the violence, demonic themes, the vile or even a little misogyny or rape (if those last two things actually help the story), but to have all of that be the sole purpose of an entire series, well I found it a little repulsive and it came across as a gimmick that is all familiar with many shock-rockers.
The stories all get a big fat F in this series. Yes all of the stories. The artwork gets a D because there was a select few pieces of beautiful work in those eight books. But all in all, I did not like Verotik, not one single bit.
Until next time... Remember nobody ever has fun in a Winnebago. Nobody.
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