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    Reanimator #4
    Released by: Dynamite Entertainment
    Released on: July 15th, 2015.
    Written by: Keith Davidsen
    Illustrated by: Randy Valiente
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    It all comes down to this in the last of the four issue Re-Animator series from Keith Davidsen, Randy Valiente and Jorge Sutil. When we last left Herbert West, the voodoo hitman Samedi was out for blood, Croceus Rex was morphing into… something and his assistant Susan Greene learned the truth about what the connection was between West and her late fiancé.

    When this final chapter begins, every drug pusher around is descending on Hamilton House where West is holed up. He's not without a few surprise so his own, however, and those who would oppose him - primarily the Eldritch Krewe - will likely find this out the hard way. Samedi is lurking around while Rex and his heavily armed cronies wait close by. What they don't know is that at least one of West's creations waits in pretty much every room of the decrepit old mansion they're not invading.

    Greene knows that West is way smarter than those out to get him, describing him as a 'puppet master' and she's right, so right in fact that he's even turned her into one of his accomplices despite her mission of revenge. When Rex's men falls to West's experiments, he decides it's time to head in and take care of things himself, and he does just that, though at this part he's hardly human. Susan tries her best to stop some of the key players from getting to her mentor, while West winds up having to showdown with Rex himself, the latter more intent on connecting with his god Cthulhu than anything else… but blood tainted by none other than Yog-Sothoth itself is a more powerful ingredient than West's foe could have possibly imagined! But then there's Samedi and Dice… and of course, Susan Greene herself.

    Unnecessary Evil Dead reference put to the side (yeah, I know, in Dynamite's continuity these characters share a world but this feels forced into the story only for the sake of having it there), this is otherwise a pretty satisfying conclusion to a fun and well written series. West stays completely in character here, you can almost hear Jeffrey Combs' voice in your head when you read the dialogue, and that's a good thing to be sure. The story fits in nicely within the realm of West's ridiculous obsession and feels true to form and this issue closes off the storyline nicely while still, of course, leaving things open for a follow up.

    Randy Valiente's art hasn't changed since the first issue - no surprise there - and it's not as detailed or as dark as some might want given the character and his past, but once you get used to it his cartoonish style does start to grow on you. Like Tim Vigil's early stuff without the hyper-detail, it's got a nice sense of movement to it but at the same time sort of gives you the impression that this is an artist yet to completely find his own style… but that the potential really is there to blow the doors off once he does. Jorge Sutil's coloring compliments the art nicely and hey, another appropriately weird Francesco Francavilla cover is never a bad thing.






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