Book Review: Krampus!

Book: Krampus! (issues #1-5) by Brian Joines with illustration by Dean Kotz and color by Ron Riley

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: Available now

Description:

Meet the Krampus, yuletide terror and punisher of wicked children. Long imprisoned for his outdated methods, the holiday horror suddenly finds himself freed and tasked with a mission: recover the stolen power of the Secret Society of Santa Clauses! With his flying wolf Stutgaard, the Krampus crosses the globe, encountering various figures of winter lore and uncovering a sinister scheme to topple the Santas and change Christmas as we know it forever!


Rating: 2 stars

Review:

This was okay there were some funny moments but nothing that made me laugh out loud.

Krampus! is about the destruction of the Santas. When the bones of St. Nicholas were stolen and then the magical power of all the Santas started to disappear. That led to the Santas making a very difficult decision, to ask for help from the one being they knew they couldn't really trust, Krampus.

Krampus had been imprisoned for centuries by the Secret Society of Santa Clauses but after receiving an offer he couldn't refuse he decided to take up the task of retrieving the bones to restore the Santas powers. But knowing they couldn't truly trust Krampus, a Naughty Bomb was strapped to him to make sure he stays the course of the mission.

Along the way he met up with all sort of dangers such as being attacked by a giant Nutcracker who ambushed him at a storage facility. But with that bomb attached to him, Krampus found himself at a real disadvantage when it came to defending himself throughout the story.

I found the writing and the artwork to also be just okay. The writing was humorous but the story fell short with Krampus feeling like a secondary character in his own book. The villains and the Santas got more focus than he did.

This was a some what boring story that was trying to do too much.