Halloween: The Broken Movie Timeline Is Secretly Fixed in One Comic

The Halloween franchise features many timelines that spin-off John Carpenter’s original, and thanks to one comic book, the worst one has been fixed.

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For any Halloween fan, accepting the various timelines that exist within the franchise’s eleven movies (with two more on the way) is standard fare. And, while there’s merit to be found in even the worst of the stories, one would be hard-pressed to make a case for the timeline that encompasses the events of movies 4-6, known as the Curse of Thorn trilogy. But thanks to one Halloween comic book published in 2008, the bizarre events of that trilogy can simply be chalked up to one man’s peculiar imagination.

Throughout the 2000s, Stefan Hutchinson proved to be arguably the best Halloween writer since John Carpenter with only a handful of comic stories. His grasp on what made Michael Myers so frightening in the first place and his ability to expand on those fundamental concepts while expertly utilizing the comic book medium was nearly flawless. Halloween: 30 Years of Terror is a one-shot from Hutchinson that features a collection of short stories set within the H20 timeline (which is encompassed by Halloween 1 & 2, Halloween: H20, and Halloween: Resurrection). In one of these less weighty shorts titled Tommy and the Boogeyman, Hutchinson reveals that an adult Tommy Doyle, who was one of the two children Laurie Strode babysat in the original movie, now resides in Utah with a family of his own.

As it turns out, Tommy grew up to be quite the horror aficionado, even making a career out of illustrating his own horror comics. Though the bulk of this short story features Tommy reading an in-world horror comic called Tarantula Man – shifting the narrative into a comic story within a comic story – as the final page shows Tommy putting down that book as he returns to pencil the comic he’s currently working on. And a quick glimpse at Tommy’s work shows him sketching a young Jamie Lloyd from Halloween 4 and 5, leaving the reader to consider that the Curse of Thorn trilogy is just a comic book story created by Tommy years after being terrorized by Michael Myers on Halloween night 1978.

While this reveal is merely a fun way to disregard some of the worst plot developments in Halloween lore, when analyzed further, it also hints at Tommy’s psychology, showing that his childhood run-in with Michael Myers stayed with him well into adulthood. Just as a great deal of audiences discovered a love for the horror genre following the original Halloween’s release, Tommy’s horror obsession seems to have doubled proceeding his getting stalked and attacked by the boogieman, manifesting his adolescent trauma into a deep-seated fascination with the macabre. The fact that this story is largely encompassed by Tommy reading his limited edition Tarantula Man comic, which parallels the original Halloween narrative with a young high school girl living in suburban bliss before suddenly being attacked by the inescapable darkness of the Tarantula Man, only further solidifies this notion.

Tommy’s processing his childhood trauma into a passion for horror-fantasy isn’t exactly unusual, but his being the writer of the Curse of Thorn trilogy sure is. As writers often do, Tommy puts what he knows into his writing, but with the start of this story disclosing that Tommy’s son’s name is Jamie and his wife’s Tina, one can’t help but wonder why he chose to assign the names of his wife and son to two characters that are both brutally murdered by the same lunatic who tried to kill him as a child in real-life. Furthermore, in the events of the timeline that this Tommy inhabits, Michael Myers is responsible for the slaughter of countless innocents and is still on the loose. And just three years prior to Tommy writing the Curse trilogy, Michael tracked his sister Laurie down and killed her not long after framing her for murder so that her final miserable years were spent in a mental institution. Tommy sure was quick to capitalize on his childhood babysitter’s death by the hand of her brother who tried to kill them both over twenty years ago – and only three years after her highly publicized death no less!

Despite some of these more off-putting details that emerge when (admittedly too much) thought is applied, it’s intriguing that creating a mystical backstory for Michael’s unexplainable evil is how Tommy processes his trauma. As is true with all characters that survive The Shape in every Halloween timeline, the psychological wounds from witnessing Michael’s unfathomable evil never truly quells, but it’s refreshing to see Tommy has found a creative outlet to help lighten his burden. He writes a sequel to a senseless tragedy he was forced to take part in, creating Jamie – who is of the same age Tommy was in 1978 – with a fantastical power to connect with Michael by way of a psychic link. He invents an answer for Michael’s malevolence by revealing that a nefarious cult was using Michael as a mere puppet all along to satisfy an ancient ritual. After all, true evil isn’t as frightening when there’s an explanation behind it. But best of all, Tommy fashions himself as the hero of the story (even giving himself the appearance of a young Paul Rudd), allowing himself to confront and defeat Michael by the very end. As far as boogieman therapy goes, Tommy Doyle is one victim that found quite the unique way to channel his nightmares of The Shape.

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