Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Writer: Bill Morrison
Artist: Tone Rodriguez
Editor: Daniel Chabon
Release Date: OUT NOW!
Price: $3.99

Quick recap: in Dead Vengeance #4 crusading radio journalist Johnny Dover a.ka. John Doe leads a one-man battle against Detroit’s Purple Gang and wakes up ten years later as a preserved corpse in a carnival sideshow!

Now, in the final instalment of Dead Vengeance #4 we find our mouldering hero seeking vengeance on the men who put him in his grave whilst trying to make contact with his daughter only to find that she’s all grown up and working as a junkie whore for the evil Isador Shapiro. Don’t you just hate it when that happens?

The cover blurb of Dead Vengeance #4 promises Booze! Broads! Bullets! Bewitchment! And boy, does it deliver. A series that started out dialogue heavy, it goes out in a blaze of glory as John Doe risks everything to save his daughter and seems to at last find a measure of peace for his tortured soul. Or does he?

The cliff-hanger ending of Dead Vengeance #4 promises more macabre fun and bullets to come which only goes to prove you can’t keep a good corpse down, and why would you want to? Make a date in your diary for Dead Vengeance #4, one of the most improved titles on the market.

Reviewer: Gary Orchard
Reviews Editor: Steve Hooker