Evil Dead 2: A Merry Deadite X-Mas is a one-shot comic released by Space Goat Publishing in December, 2016. It was written by Georgia Ball and featured art by Vincenzo Riccardi.
Plot Synopsis[]
It's Christmas Eve eve, and Annie Knowby is feeling downhearted about not being able to spend the upcoming holiday with her family. The simulacrum Ash Williams tries to comfort her, but only manages to accidentally upset her even more. Back in their motel, Ash is fresh out of the shower when a spirit manifests itself in the bathroom. The ghostly figure says his name is (or was) Robbie Dawes, a lowly employee at the Santa's Secret Snowy Garden theme park who discovered a copy of the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis in the stock room. Foolishly reading the book's incantations led to the death of Dawes and the unleashing of supernatural forces upon the park. Knowing what must be done, Ash grabs his shotgun, ready for the fight.
Annie and Ash arrive at Santa's Secret Snowy Garden, and immediately run into a Deadite elf. After a swift decapitation, the cry of a child catches the duo's attention, where they find a possessed Chewy Charlotte doll had lured them into a trap. Gingerbread men riding deadly bumper cars race out from the shadows, and just as one demonic driver heads straight for Ash and Annie, two axe-wielding human children, a young boy and girl, save them.
The children, named David and Colette, tell Ash and Annie that they've been stuck in the park for a few days, and have been fighting ever since. After battling through a haunted restaurant, Ash realizes that Robbie has been working with the dead all along, and they need to find him, and destroy him in order to put an end to the spirits plaguing the park.
Arriving at Santa's Workshop, the four humans fight possessed toys and elves, and Annie makes her way up the chimney where Robbie waits. Dodging skeletal reindeer flying around her, Annie whips out the Kandarian Dagger and stabs Robbie in his ghostly gut. The disgruntled employee's soul flies into the dagger, and the chaos below subsides. Before leaving the park, Ash, Annie, David, and Colette sing Christmas carols among the smoldering corpses of various toys and bloody elf bodies.
Trivia[]
- Space Goat initially offered customized covers of this issue to comic retailers, where their store's name or logo would be printed on the marquee of the storefront. This idea was soon dropped, and by the time the issue went to print, the sign simply read "COMICS-MART".