- "You still don't get it, do you, boy? I'm a survivor. Plain and simple. I do what I have to."
- ―Hoyt
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre | |
Title: | "Hoyt, By Himself" |
Volume: | 1 |
Number: | 1 |
Cover price: | $2.99 |
Cover date: | October, 2007 |
Publisher: | DC Comics WildStorm Productions |
Credits | |
Ex. Ed: | Jim Lee |
Writers: | Dan Abnett; Andy Lanning |
Pencilers: | Wes Craig |
Inkers: | Wes Craig |
Cover artists: | Darick Robertson |
Cover inker: | Darick Robertson |
Cover colorist: | JD Mettler |
Colorists: | Randy Mayor |
Letterers: | Wes Abbott |
Assistants: | Kristy Quinn |
Editors: | Ben Abernathy |
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"Hoyt, By Himself" is the story from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: By Himself one-shot special published by DC Comics and WildStorm Productions. The story was written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning with artwork by Wesley Craig. It was colored by Randy Mayor with lettering by Wes Abbott. The story was edited by Ben Abernathy with Kristy Quinn as assistant editor. This issue shipped with an October, 2007 cover date and carries a cover price of $2.99 per copy (US).
"Hoyt, By Himself"[]
May 7th, 1972
Sheriff Hoyt stops a motorist on the highway. Prejudging the man as nothing more than a draft-dodging hippie, he decides to take out his frustration by dragging the man out of the car and beating him with the butt end of his rifle. While the man lies in the dirt bleeding, Sheriff Hoyt decides to tell him his life story.
- Flashback
- Hoyt's real name is actually Charlie Hewitt. In the winter of 1953 he had been serving in the U.S. armed forces stationed in Korea. Hewitt was captured by a Korean officer named Sergeant Chow and taken to a POW camp. Chow forced Hewitt to look after another POW who had been injured during the fighting. Seeing the man as sick and weak, Hewitt decided that it would be better to silence him, so he suffocated him in the middle of the night. The following day, Hewitt was moved to a transit camp in the mountains. Placed in a dungeon, he was paired off with another injured G.I. The enlisted man died of his own injuries, and Hewitt watched in horror as NKPA officers dragged the body into a slaughterhouse where it was butchered and (presumably) cooked. What remains were left behind were thrown into a bucket and tossed into Hewitt's cell. Starving, he had little choice but to eat what was provided for him. He kept one of the discarded human bones and sharpened the end of it. When Sergeant Chow entered his cell one morning to inspect him, Hewitt stabbed him in the chest with the bone. He then took Chow's rifle and shot his way to freedom. The experience gave Hewitt not only a newfound inner strength, but a grisly appetite for human flesh.
- Flashback
By the time Hewitt concludes his tale, he has dragged the bleeding motorist back to his family homestead. Beating him with a baseball bat, he screams at the man, declaring that he is a survivor and that if he could survive the communists, he could survive anything – with his family around him. As if on cue, Charlie's nephew Tommy "Leatherface" Hewitt emerges from behind a clothesline and finishes the motorist off with his chainsaw. Looking down at the corpse, Charlie motions to Tommy and says, "Let's eat".
Appearances[]
Featured characters
Supporting characters
Villains
- Chow (In flashback only)
Minor characters
- Victim (Only appearance; dies)
Organizations
- Hewitt family (Charlie & Thomas only)
- United States Army (In flashback only)
Races & Animals
Locations
- Korea (In flashback only)
Items
- Chains
- Chainsaw
- Handgun (In flashback only)
- Knife (In flashback only)
- Night stick
- Rifle (In flashback only)
- Shotgun
Vehicles
Miscellaneous
- 1950s
- 1953
- 1970s
- 1972
- Cannibalism
- Flashbacks
- Gunshot victims (In flashback only)
- Jail (In flashback only)
- Korean War (In flashback only)
- May 7th
- Military units (In flashback only)
- Profanity
- Sadomasochism
- Smoking (In flashback only)
- Stabbings (In flashback only)
- Throat injuries (In flashback only)
Notes & Trivia[]
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre: By Himself redirects to this page.
- Based on the 2003 feature film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre by director Marcus Nispel.
- This issue is reprinted in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Book Two trade paperback collection.
- Cover colorist J.D. Mettler is credited as JD Mettler in this issue.
- The framing story in this issue takes place on May 7th, 1972, three years after the events of Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) and one year before The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003).
- This issue explores how the Hewitt family became cannibals as a result of the time that Charlie Hewitt spent as a prisoner of war during the Korean War.
- The prequel film Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning will reveal that Charlie Hewitt assumed the identity of Sheriff Winston Hoyt after killing him.
Recommended Reading[]
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre Vol 1
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre: About a Boy
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre: By Himself
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Cut!
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Raising Cain