Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Ryan B's Top 5 Comic Book Witches



"I put a spell on yooou, because your miiine."

And now that you are no doubt playing that song inside your own head, I suggest you also grab a cup of brew and hold on to your broomstick, because here comes a countdown of my top five bewitching women of comic bookdom.

Here comes...





Ryan B's Top 5 Comic Book Witches!



Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Ryan B does Jokes From The Crypt





Today's entry is going to be a little bit different. In an attempt to live up to my Comic Book Crud credo of not only reviewing stories from horror comics, but also "media related to horror comics" I thought it was finally time that I broke from the routine and did just that.

Back in 1992 HBO's Tales From The Crypt series was at the height of it's popularity, which of course led to a wave of merchandising cashing in on the brand name including, but not limited to, reprints of the original EC comic books from which the episodes were based. Kids of the nineties who only knew the live action Crypt-Keeper as a moldering old skeleton got their first glimpse of the original pungeon master as well as his cohorts, The Old Witch and The Vault-Keeper in the pages of these very books. No doubt taking advantage of this new found familiarity, children's book publisher, Random House, released a small paperback book of jokes around this time, told by the three GhouLunatics themselves. It was appropriately titled...

Jokes From The Crypt.