[EDITOR’S NOTE: Seeing as how this Halloween falls in the year 2013 the crew at SKC decided to invite 13 of our blogging brethren for a monster-sized countdown, weekdays now until Halloween day, celebrating each person’s favorite Halloween movie or animated special.] I’d say the best marketing The Last Halloween ever had was on a […]
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It would seem that the clubhouse isn’t alone in wanting to celebrate the anniversary of our favorite films this year. Recently announced by French pop culture art site, Geek-Art.net, Turn the Light Off is a new print by artist Patrick Connan that’s only being made available this week (sale ends October 18 at 12pm – […]
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Greetings, boils & ghouls! It’s a very, very special time of year indeed. The wee, pudgy children have been stuck in their school desks for a few weeks now. The leaves are starting to look like maybe they should have bought that life insurance policy after all. Your local supermarkets and drugstores are festooned with […]
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Growing up during the 90s some of my all-time favorite comics (and comic creators) came from the dredges of indie publication. Eric Powell (The Goon), Trent Kaniuga (Creed), Randy Queen (Darkchylde) and plenty more served as constant inspiration to strike out and create something of my own. Little did I know that many of them, […]
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For pretty much as long as I can remember, most of my heroes have been monsters: Dracula, Frankenstien’s monster, Freddy, the Xenomorphs from Alien and, of course, Swamp Thing. Swamp Thing isn’t just your run-of-the-mill, here to terrorize the public-type of monster like the rest of his companions (except for maybe Frankie of course, he […]
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Every time I read up on The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, someone eventually remarks on how much of a disaster this series was. And every time I still think “Really? This show was a disaster? In what sense?” All I can remember is sitting down every night in the summer, putting on Cartoon Network, […]
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WRITTEN BY: John Mueller ART/COVER BY: John Mueller PUBLISHER: Big Pig Ink COVER PRICE: $2.99 RELEASE DATE: Out Now To say that comics were “excessive” during the 90s would be an understatement. Full of whacked out storylines, hyper-sexualized heroines and cash-grab variant covers there’s a lot of shame to go around. That’s not to say […]
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“The Power is Yours!” If you remember the nineties, you remember that a lot of the decade was based around causes that are brushed aside or ignored today. Literacy, eating healthy, and avoiding drugs were consistent themes on children’s television. Then there was Captain Planet and the Planeteers, a rally cry for the environmental (and […]
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Back in the late 90s my grandfather bought us our first computer which was not only a place for fun, but a place where we discovered a few oddities that we never knew existed. Folks who know me, they know that I am a hardcore fan of The Honeymooners. My parents raised me on the […]