Army of Darkness: Shop 'Til You Drop Dead

Army of Darkness #3

by James Kuhoric, Nick Bradshaw (Artist), Sanford Greene (Artist)

Grab the keys to the Oldsmobile and break out the boomstick 'cause Ash is back! The wisecracking everyman with a chin of steel comes face to face with something worse than Deadite possession: Unemployment. Recently returned from his time traveling adventure to Eqypt, Ash gets a taste of department store bureaucracy when he is docked for the damages caused to the store and discovers the evil spirit from the woods now inhabits the aisles of S-Mart.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Comic Book

112 pages, Paperback

First published August 10, 2005

About the author

James Anthony Kuhoric

Reviews

[Terry]

Retail is always the workers fault but at least Ash gets to be more than the fall guy.

[Jesse A]

Sillier and sillier but overall alot of fun.

[Terry Mcginnis]

Ugh... Yes, this is as bad or worse than volume 2. It's volume 1 all over again, but this time there's future time travel instead of past. Terrible, unbefitting art, stale, overused dialogue, and just a dumb, boring story. Not recommended. Let's try vs. Re-Animator next!

[John]

As usual for this series, SHOP 'TIL YOU DROP DEAD spends most of its time simply rehashing story beats and dialog taken from the films. Seriously, will there ever be an ARMY OF DARKNESS comic in which Ash doesn't sever someone's possessed hand or battle with evil miniature lookalikes? It's like listening to a "Greatest Hits" compilation by a second-rate cover band. Eventually, Ash gets flung into Earth's distant future, which might've been an interesting idea if the writer weren't so dead-set on parodying old sci-fi flicks like TRON and THE TERMINATOR instead of telling a cohesive and convincing story.

[Johnny Andrews]

I am biased as I love the character and can just read it as Bruce Campbell as Ash plus love the whole world/franchise.
This pretty much starts where Army of Darkness ends. Or one version where Ash gets back to the S-Mart and the girl...but soon those pesky deadites are back wanting souls and causing mayhem.
Ash gets sucked through a portal but instead of medieval fancypants he is thrown into a future. It's a lot of fun and if you are a fan that's what you want.

[Neve]

Yes i skipped the other volume and js read the recap bc I liked this art style better.

Entertaining and okay dialogue but it’s kind of in character I guess? I hated that it could be pretty sexist at times with the treatment of the girls :/ they don’t all have to be love interests.

Rlly like the design of Ash they got his goofiness down. Him crying at the sight of a chainsaw made me laugh!

[Tomas]

waay better than Ashes 2 ashes. The craziness in this one reaches dangerous levels of absurdity and fun. Ash is the best evil destroyer there is. This volume contains countless pop culture references that especially horror and sci-fi fans will love

[Toprak Bektas]

meeh

[Dmitry Yakovenko]

Этот комикс с чистой душой можно назвать “Evil Dead V”, ведь он является прямым продолжением комикса “Army of Darkness: Ashes 2 Ashes”, который, в свою очередь, являлся продолжением культовой трилогии Сэма Рейми о зловещих мертвецах. Эш благополучно справился со всеми проблемами, которые настигли его в прошлом томе, но к сожалению, зло снова вернулось и снова Эш должен спасать мир.

Ситуация 100% аналогичная прошлому тому. Средний рисунок, глупая история, но в ней множество классных моментов, куча юмора и конечно же, невероятно крутой главный герой. Опять же, комикс стоит читать, но только после просмотра трех фильмов, прочтения прошлого комикса и при условии что вам нравится трилогия Сэма Рейми.

[Keith Irwin]

In this book, Ash fights deadites in S-Mart and then there's sudden time travel stuff. This starts out feeling very hackneyed with Ash fighting the exact same sort of stuff he fought in the movie, just relocated to S-Mart. And the, suddenly, he winds up in the future where things are very different and, well, weird, and the Necronomicon is now a computer program. So he fights deadites in cyberspace. On the whole, this feels like the author couldn't come up with any good ideas, so he decided to recycle existing ones, just with weird settings.

[Anna]

meh... not the best Ash, but entertaining for something borrowed