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PLOTS Halloween featured the return of Tommy Doyle who obtains the private journal of Dr. Sam Loomis. The journal contains the complete story of '' film. After having his head lit on fire by Tommy, Michael jumps out of a second story window. In a scene reminiscent of the original '' Halloween '' film, Tommy looks out of the window to see that Michael is no longer there. Tommy vows that he will find and finally kill Michael once and for all. Halloween II: The Blackest Eyes picks up immediately after the first issue. Tommy sets out to hunt down and kill Michael Myers. In the meantime, Richie Castle, a failed real estate agent, visits the Myers house intending to burn it down. Castle first encountered Michael 24 years before, while bullying Tommy Doyle in a scene from the first '' Halloween '' film. He has been haunted by the meeting ever since. His attempt to destroy the house result in his murder by Michael. Castle's body is discovered by retired Haddonfield sheriff, Leigh Brackett (also from the First Film) who proceeds to take the body to a field. Tommy Doyle follows and confronts Brackett who proceeds to explain that Michael Myers is part of a cursed Druid bloodline. The women of the Myers bloodline were cursed with visions and occasionaly with the ability to read minds. The first-born male of each generation carried the seed of Samhain's evil. In order to appease the gods, the druids would hould fire rituals where prisoners of war, criminals and the insane would be burned alive. For three generations after, the Myers family lived in peace with no murders taking place. The evil returned though in 1957 when Michael was born. Sheriff Brackett also explains that his knowledge comes from Loomis' private diaries which were presented to him after Loomis' death. These diaries are different than the journal Tommy acquired in the previous issue. Once the story is told, both Tommy Doyle and Sheriff Brackett are attacked and kidnapped by a group of druids led by Michaels former neighbor and babysitter, Mrs. Blankenship. The two are held in the basement of a church. Mrs. Blankenship wants to kill Tommy Doyle and Sheriff Brackett, feeling they know too much, but a priest feels they should be let go. As the priest secretly attempts to free them, he is murdered by Michael Myers. Once again, Tommy and Michael engage in battle ultimately leading to Michael's electrocution and the church exploding. Before the explosion, Tommy picks up Sheriff Brackett and retreats outside where the druids are waiting for him. Three months later, Tommy is being held in Smith's Grove-Warren County Sanitarium for the murders that Michael has committed as well as the apparant death of Sheriff Brackett. Tommy realizes that he must escape because Michael Myers will return. Halloween III: The Devil's Eyes picks up the story one year after ''Halloween II: The Blackest Eyes''. Tommy Doyle, still an inmate at Smith's Grove-Warren County Sanitarium, has heard news that '') but does not believe it. When employees of the sanitarium attempt to murder Tommy, he escapes and drives towards Haddonfield. The next day, Lindsey Wallace (once again, a character from the First Film ), now a Chicago newspaper writer, is reunited with Tommy who had previously asked her to pick up Loomis' private diaries from Sheriff Brackett's home. The diaries reveal that there was a third sibling of Michael Myers' and Laurie Strode who was stillborn. Although the body of the baby had died, the cursed soul did not and instead posessed Michael's body. Michael attacks both Lindsey and Tommy, stabbing Tommy in the process. Lindsey runs away until she arrives at the Myers house. Deciding that she should no longer run, Lindsey begins to comb her hair in front of a mirror, re-creating the scene of Michael's sister Judith from the opening scene in the First Film ). Michael attacks but Lindsey uses a shard of the broken mirror to stab Michael in the eye. As Michael removes the shard, he is shot in the back by Tommy who then removes Michael's mask to discover Laurie Strode 's face. Laurie suddenly stabs Tommy in the throat with the shard of glass and both Tommy and Laurie tumble out of a window. Tommy dies and Laurie Strode is committed to Smith's Grove-Warren County Sanitarium. A doctor tells Lindsey that the only curse in the Myers family, is mental illness. Lindsey still questions the fact that something else may have caused the madness. CONTINUITY While the comics are certainly not accepted as canon, the attempt to create continuity between '''' before being institutionalized. |
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