The hit horror series continues! Witness, if you will, the demise of a good man in a town without pity. A caring man, with aspirations to be known among his peers as one of Hollywood’s finest actors, only to see these colleagues snicker at him when he’s typecast as a famous film monster made of human patchwork parts. But, as we’ll see, life imitates art in Tinseltown, down a boulevard called…Hyde Street.
Hyde Street #4 is a horror from another angle. This time, it is a mental horror of being trapped with your own mistakes, and it's an issue full of raw emotion that shows the diversity of characters trapped within the hell of Hyde Street. This issue levels-up the series to new heights. DO NOT MISS OUT! Read Full Review
Others denied Pranky the satisfaction and love he yearned for. Becoming the Scorekeeper's little helper made the former Boy Scout feel valued. But when Oscar Oddman's actions threaten his dominance, Pranky makes the Matinee Monster his next target in Hyde Street #4. Read Full Review
In addition to everything else, Johns and company are doing a really, really good job of moving around the overall story of Hyde Street around the margins of the central story for every issue. Its a vey engaging world that Johns is bringing to the page which ends up being a lot of fun to engage in. The love letter to the golden age of horror really adds something to the depth of the world of Hyde Street...a world which continues to be truly captivating. Read Full Review
HYDE STREET #4 delivers the goods, especially if you have a fondness for classic Universal monster films and their endless sequels. Geoff Johns's backstory for the Matinee Monster is a tragically relatable tale, and the art team's delivery is magnificent. Read Full Review
Hyde Street #4 features what might be the series' most tragic installment to date, peeling back another layer of its mysterious realm while showcasing that not everyone on Hyde Street is a monster even if they look like one. Read Full Review
This is my favorite issue of Hyde Street so far. While the protagonists in previous issues were pretty much horrible human beings before meeting their fate on Hyde Street, Oscar Oddman, the Matinee Monster, is relatable from the start, which makes his inevitable demise even more tragic.
Plot
This chapter tells the origin of the mysterious being called Matinee Monster, named Oscar Oddman who in 1949 was an actor typecast as Frankenstein and a tragic accident fueled by his insecurity made him fall into Hyde Street. In this place Scorekeeper disfigured and humiliated him, leaving him without eyes or tongue which prevents him from communicating and ironically it is the cliché of movie monsters, forcing him to search for souls, but Matinee Man never did it, he even has the soul of the Butcher of Hyde Street trapped.
Pranky is still upset about having lost the souls he almost caught for Scorekeeper at Christmas, so he dusted off his monster hunting manual, so the next chapter promises to be a battle between thes more
this is a very fun anthology horror series compared to Red Coat and Geiger
Solid issue.
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