Do you guys remember the when there was a decent selection of comic book-esque monster magazines lining our local comic book shelves? Publications like Tales from the Crypt, Creepy, Eerie and even Cracked Monster Party? Man, those things were great! It’s a shame we don’t have anything like that anymore… …oh, but wait! There are […]
Horror
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A few weeks back I did a review for a book titled “The Drive-In,” by Joe R. Lansdale. In that write up I mentioned some of Lansdale’s work also made it into my favorite reading spectrum, comic books. Well boils and ghouls, the clubhouse is in full swing for that strange season of slaughter called […]
Tagged with: Avatar Press, By the Bizarre Hand, gore, horror, indie comics, Joe R. Lansdale, Lost in the Longbox, nudity
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Every now and then we’re handed a mash up of things so totally opposite and bizarre it really has no other option than to work. That’s exactly what we get with Afterlife With Archie, something previously marketed for a much younger audience that’s been transformed into one heck of an awesome horror comic. To be […]
Tagged with: Afterlife with Archie, Archie, comic books, horror, parody, review, zombies
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If it wasn’t for a bit a chance and a handful of morbid curiosity I may have never discovered Johnathan Ross and Ian Churchill’s newest book, REVENGE. Not a title that I expect gets much mainstream attention due to it’s gleefully insane indulgence of nudity, gore and grindhouse style violence – REVENGE is nonetheless a […]
Tagged with: comics, exploitation, Hellraiser, horror, Ian Churchill, Image Comics, Johnathan Ross, revenge
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I think I’ve mentioned this before, but there aren’t nearly enough Westerns around anymore. Whether we’re talking TV, film or comics, the art of the western seems to be a tricky genre to master these days. So what’s the easiest way around this? Throw some zombies and/or monsters into the mix, of course! QUICKSAND JACK […]
Tagged with: cowboys, Dead Alive, horror, indie comic, Quicksand Jack, Valentine Comics, western
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While zombies may be big business in today’s media culture, 20 years ago they were the domain of indie publishers like FantaCo, Antarctic Press and Arrow Comics. Thanks to these industry forerunners, strange kids like myself got a taste of these skin-crawlingly savage, flesh-eating ghouls (in black and white newsprint) long before The Walking Dead. […]
Tagged with: Arrow Comics, comic books, indie, Mike Waison, press release, The Dead, zombies
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STORY BY: Aaron Alexovich COVER AND ART BY: Drew Rausch COVER PRICE: $0.99 (digital) RELEASE DATE: Now available It’s a been a long, hard road for the cast of AARON ALEXOVICH and DREW RAUSCH’s digital comic miniseries, ELDRITCH!. A brother and sister are at war, limbs have been lost, demonic babies revealed and otherworldly tentacled […]
Tagged with: Aaron Alexovich, comedy, demons, digital comics, Drew Rausch, ELDRITCH!, H.P. Lovecraft, horror