Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Writer: Tim Seeley and Jim Terry
Artist: Jim Terry
Editor: Joe Rybrandt
Release date: OUT NOW!!
Price: $3.99

Once in a generation, if you are lucky, a rock persona emerges from the ether to take on a corporeal form that will transcend time and place to carve out an everlasting niche in the collective rock consciousness. Those of us lucky enough, and old enough, to remember the 1970’s were doubly blessed for we had two such icons: David Bowie and Alice Cooper.

Whilst Bowie quickly shed the skin of Ziggy Stardust for Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke et al, before moving on to the world of fine art and sporadic comeback albums, Alice has always remained true blue, manning the barricades against the onslaught of political correctness, bestriding the industry like a colossus, inspiring musicians and delighting fans in equal measure and has never let us down. Okay, we’ll forgive him playing golf with Ronnie Corbett and put it down to a bad attack of irony.

Now in Alice Cooper vs Chaos #2, Cooper also has a comic book worthy of his name. If you read the first issue of this series, (and if not, why not?) you will know that Alice is being targeted by the monster teenagers The Chosen as he headlines a concert in Chicago.

Alice Cooper vs Chaos #2 opens with vampire assassin Chastity getting beaten up in the bathroom by the really bad girls and Alice being interrupted on stage by his faithful snake Kachina who is only supposed to exist when he’s in his secret identity of the Lord of Nightmares, so you know something really nasty is going to happen. And wouldn’t you know it, just as the gig was really hotting up, the Dark Elves unleash all sorts of evil beasties and Alice gets the blame even though he’s trapped in a tree at the time.

Alice Cooper vs Chaos #2 makes more sense when you read it, honest. Let Alice welcome you to his nightmare. I promise you won’t regret it and the shower scene with Purgatori is worth the price of admission alone.

 

Reviewer: Gary Orchard
Reviews Editor: Steve Hooker