An OK slasher overall. The story works. Violence is pretty low for a slasher, the result is shown, but the killings themselves mostly happen off-screen.

The intro in animation is awesome, a whole movie in that style would have been amazing. Too bad it's just the intro.

Some things do not work though. First there is absolutely no chemistry between Williams and Brewster. That's a shame because a looot of discussions are around their couple and it's just a pain to watch.

Like is common in slashers, characters have stupid reactions. [spoiler]I can understand not wanting to talk to the cops when seeing the first triple murder that looks like his books. I can also understand the reluctance as he could be seen as inspiring the murders, or glorifying violence. But once his assistant has been killed and they're clearly in danger, not even mentioning the relation ? Or asking for protection ? WTF ?[/spoiler]

The pseudo ethics dilemma between glorifying violence and it's just a comics, is a little too present, but without really being treated in depth. It's just a ghost floating over the story and adds nothing much.

The final twist is actually good, and kinda tie the story together, however it's badly introduced. [spoiler]First, the kid is way way blacker than him, even when shown, it's kinda hard to be sure they were meant to be the same person. Add to that the fact that nobody EVER mentions that he's the son of one of the victims, while half the movie dialogues are about the killer, its victims, Todd's reasons for doing his comics, etc. It would basically the central point of discussion, between Todd and his fans, between Todd and Kathy's project, between Todd and his detractors, etc. and it never comes up.[/spoiler]. I understand that it is kept intentionally to be a surprising twist, but narratively it makes absolutely no sense that it doesn't come up sooner.

Also, even if it's used as final citation, the acts of violence in the movie are anything but random.