Nerds That Geek Comic Book Review: ‘Bubba Ho-Tep and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers’ #3

Written by John Edward Betancourt 

​It’s rare that I take the time to re-read a comic series simply because there’s so much more on my list to dig into and for me, once I’ve gone through an issue, I feel as though I’ve absorbed what I need to absorb. But Bubba Ho-Tep and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers is a series that I continually find myself returning to simply because its magnificent story and design is incredibly unique. In fact, I’m hard pressed to think of any other comic series that is able to switch tone and design from issue to issue and still provide the reader with such a rich and amazing experience.
 
Take the first issue for example, which more or less introduced us back into the world of Bubba Ho-Tep by providing us with a story that looked and felt like the iconic motion picture, complete with a beautiful narration that channeled the spirit of Bruce Campbell as Elvis Presley and it was nicely counterbalanced by the fascinating second issue, wherein the audience was treated to a master class on comic book writing, since this particular tale was able to provide the reader with quality and important exposition that moved at a brisk and engaging pace and well, now that I had some free time to settle in and pick up the third issue of this comic, I was quite curious as to what wonders awaited me within its pages.
 
As it turns out, Issue #3 was going to be more of the wonderful same from this series, in that, this time around, the movie-esque feel and outright exposition present in the first two issues was replaced by something that I think we’ve all been waiting for, and something that Issue #2 implied was on its way, sweet and glorious conflict between the King’s cadre of spirit fighters and the evil now present in our world and man, this issue didn’t waste any time getting to down to business in the slightest because this one, features an epic battle so incredible, that the reader needs to take their time going through every single page of this battle royale in order to savor its wonder properly.
 
Because the stunning artwork present here, allows for the eyes to simply feast upon the buffet of violence present in this story and I was utterly captivated by every single frame as the King and his cohorts took care of business in brilliantly gory and gooey fashion and well, it’s rare to read a comic book that actually manages to make the action on the page be as compelling as it is on the silver screen, but that’s precisely what happened here and I loved every single page of this dynamic and bold issue. I call it bold, simply because one would think it’s a touch taboo to put together an issue full of glorious violence, but hey, Writer Josh Jabcuga and Artist Tadd Galusha pulled it off without a hitch.
 
But, there is more to be found in this issue than mystical swords and giant spirits kicking ass and taking names in the bayou. There is quite the important plot point introduced in this one in that, one of the group’s own, Jack, was kidnapped by the evil, to be used as bait to see if the monsters can draw the King and his friends into a fight on their territory and well, that sets the stage for another incredible issue. Because there’s a fair chance that the group will fail and suffer incredible losses if they go after Jack. But something tells me the King won’t leave a man behind and sadly, I’ll just have to wait until the next issue of this magnificent comic to see how this little twist wraps up. Until next time.   

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