Stranger Things #2 Review!

It’s Stranger Things Day so we have a review of the comic book!  We just beginning to explore Will Byers time in the Upside Down with the first issue from Dark Horse Comics.  The second issue also has a photo cover of Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) holding a tangle of Christmas lights.  The creative team of Jody Houser and Stefano Martino continue “Chapter Two.”  In the dark reflection of his bedroom, dark with blue shades and filled with green vine-like forms, he hears the sound of his mother on the walkie talkie, but the Demigorgon enters the room.  Will is able to get his rifle and shoot the Demigorgon, his rifle clicks empty, and he finds himself alone.  He tries to use the house phone and hears his mother in the choppy static.  Will heads back to his bedroom and doesn’t see the lights that follow him.  

He hears fragments of The Clash’s “Should I Stay or Should I Go” (1982).  Will sneaks under his bed and drags in his backpack.  When he sees that there is no Demiogorgon around he walks the streets of Hawkins, Indiana searching for a signal on his walkie talkie.  Then, he hears a scream.  It shifts to the D&D game where Dungeon Master Mike explains that villagers may be in trouble and devil swine are rumored to be there.  He hears a voice call out Nancy’s name so Will checks out the house and finds a pair of glasses on the bottom of a pool, Barb! She disappears in “Chapter Two: The Weirdo on Maple Street” (2016). 

Will returns to his home and then hears the voice of his mother who asks him to blink.  He does so activating Christmas lights.  Will falls asleep and when he wakens he finds his mother strings Christmas lights along with letters so he can communicate! This was in “Chapter Three: Holly, Jolly” (2016).  He hears the movement of the Demigorgon and forms the word “RUN” on the wall.  Will sees the Demigorgon try to work itself through a wall.  He throws a book, William Sleator’s science fiction novel, House of Stairs (1974), to get the attention of the Demigorgon.  Will runs into the night.  We get Will as scared, but he can turn out to have brave moments.  We see the use of the rifle and get a hint of Barb.   

Four Walkie Talkies out of Five!  

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