Evil Dead 2: Revenge of Krampus is a one-shot comic released by Space Goat Productions in November, 2016. Written by Ian Edginton and featuring art by Dave Youkovich, it was the fifth installment in the Evil Dead 2: The Revenge of... series.
Plot[]
It's Christmas Eve, and inside a messy travel trailer sits the simulacrum clone of Ash Williams, drinking his way through a six pack in honor of his "real" counterpart (wherever he may be) until a panicking woman bangs on his door. Ash recognizes her as his neighbor in the trailer across from his, and she frantically exclaims something is attacking her son, Owen. Inside, Owen is holding his own against a giant, goat-like monster by smacking it with a frying pan, a good enough distraction until Ash arrives. The beast immediately recognizes Ash's voice, and sends Williams flying across the trailer park with a single punch.
The fight continues across the park, with human and monster trading mighty blows until the monster apologies for knocking Ash into a dumpster. Seeing as how things can't get any weirder, Ash asks the monster (who identified himself as Krampus) what is going on. Krampus explains that Father Christmas delivers gifts to the nice children of the world, he gets the naughty ones, and tries to scare them back on to the straight and narrow. Realizing that Krampus isn't such a bad guy, Ash invites him back to his trailer to share some beer and fried chicken.
After an incalculable amount of beer has been consumed, Krampus elaborates on his prior meetings with Ash (the real one), how the young Williams would set traps and fight back against him every year up until he was 13 years old. Ash fills in the rest of the story, saying he walked into a stop sign after seeing a cute girl walk by him, which gave him some memory loss (hence why he couldn't remember meeting Krampus before). With the story now "complete", Ash tells Krampus that he should go out and get a real life again, and that the kids of the world won't be missing anything by getting scared during the holidays. Krampus agrees and thanks Ash. As he begins to leave the trailer, Krampus spots the woman who's child he had just tried to scare.
Sometime later in the evening, Ash heads over to the woman's trailer with a fresh case of beer to see if she fancied a nightcap. She opens the door, only to reveal that Krampus is already inside sharing a drink with her. He tells Ash that Chloe likes hairy guys who smell like goats as he plucks the beer case from Ash's hands, saying it's a Christmas miracle he found her.
Notes[]
- The events of this comic are of dubious canoncy to the Evil Dead 2 series, as A Merry Deadite X-Mas (released one month after this issue) would state that the simulacrum Ash spent his first Christmas with Annie Knowby.