I ’ve heard a lot of cool story hooks in my time, but “horror on the high seas” is one of the more compelling in recent memory… How far would you go to save your own life? Your Major Spoilers review of Plunder #1 awaits!
THE BOTTOM LINE: GRAPHIC AND TERRIFYING
This one is what Joe R. Lansdale dubbed ” a toughie”, a story with difficult characters doing bad things and even worse things happening to them, and I certainly wouldn’t recommend it for younger readers, it has a certain charm for fans of horror movies and slasher-type flicks. Plunder #1 makes for a good read, doing terrifying things in a manner that isn’t overly familiar, and mostly balancing the stylized art to show us terrible scenes of slaughter without quite leaping too far into torture porn territory, earning a very nice 3 out of 5 stars overall. It’s an impressive debut for an unusual story, but I do wish the cover hadn’t tipped the story’s hand quite so far…