Razorblades is a horror magazine comprised of short comics, prose short stories, interviews with horror comics creators like Scott Snyder and Gou Tanabe, and standalone pieces of art. The most shocking thing about this first book - featuring work from James Tynion IV, Steve Foxe, Ram V, Marguerite Bennett, Michael Walsh, Lonnie Nadler, Tini Howard, Dan Watters, Steve Orlando, and Alex Paknadel (to name just a few of the contributors), a veritable who’s who of the worst comics writers around at the moment - is that there isn’t a single story in 400 pages that’s worth reading!
A guy kills via washing machine. A witch steals a baby. An autopsied body comes back to life. Tynion’s original character, Killboy, a serial killing vigilante, does just that. A giant spider terrorises a town. Forget scary (which none of them are), these stories aren’t even interesting. It’s usually either monsters popping up to say boo or people killing other people.
I like horror because it’s a genre that encourages wild and dark imaginations but none of these writers or artists take advantage of/have the capacity for that and produce the most limited, obvious, and boring stories instead. Gratuitous gore does not a horror story make - that’s the reserve of hacks.
The only thing horrible about this book is the consistently low quality of its contents. An instantly forgettable anthology and a total waste of time, there’s nothing to Razorblades that’ll appeal to fans of good horror comics.
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