Route 666 Vol. 1: Highway to Horror

A while ago I mentioned the problem of rereading good beginnings of comic runs when one knows the stories would end up shitty and unfulfilled. Well, Route 666 suffers from a different problem, in that its publisher, Crossgen, went out of business before everything could get wrapped up. Whoops! To be fair, it wasn't that great to begin with, but it's a horror book so what can you do. The plot is that Cassie, a young girl, can see spirits and evil creatures who look like regular humans to everybody else. There is some big secret plot involving them harvesting the souls of the living, but she can stop them so they are trying to kill her. She goes on the run and kills a bunch of bad guys, and it also takes place during the 50s, so it plays off of a kitschy atmosphere. Don't bother reading it, though, because the story never gets resolved and there isn't much point in investing your time to just end up disappointed.

RATING: 68%