Monday, September 17, 2012

Ryan B does World For A Witch


 
 
 
Hiya, kids, welcome to Comic Book Crud!

 I’m your (sort of) host, Ryan B.

 

For those of you who are new to this blog, let me tell you a little bit about what we do here. You see, from up in my mama’s dark and dusty attic, me and my buddy, Tom…

 

Look through my dead uncle’s old comic book trunk and pick out the best, the worst, and the somewhat in between stories that his moldy horror comics have to offer. I then present them to YOU accompanied by my own commentary and opinions, because… it’s my blog. But I don’t have all the fun. If a particular story we’ve picked has been adapted to another medium like television, or film, then Tom will do his own little write up of that version in a segment we call, Adaptation Analysis. Pretty cool, right?

So now that you cats are down with the format, let’s keep this blog rolling…

So far, we’ve already paid a visit to DC’s The House of Mystery. Cain the able caretaker treated us to a piece of wormwood called Roots of Evil and it pretty much stunk up the place. Something about a killer tree and a goon with thick glasses and a C.H.U.D face. Anyway, it wasn’t great, so now let’s try Cain’s brother, Abel’s place across the street.

Direct from The House of Secrets, this enchanting bit of Dickensian doom is called…

World For A Witch


Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Ryan B does Majority Of One


 
 
So, when I did my first review of a story from Twisted Tales, I picked a bit of a stinker. This may have given some of you new to horror comics the idea that this book or maybe Bruce Jones specifically, is not so great. Well, that’s not true. My review of Jenifer should have been enough to show you that Bruce Jones is a genius and one of, if not THE best, in his field. Now I want to show you one of his best, most classic stories from Twisted Tales (which, on the whole, was a consistently great book all around). No, it’s not the infamous Banjo Lessons, although we’ll no doubt get to that one eventually. No, this is a little story about not fitting in called…

Majority Of One.