tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91460441961711607152024-02-07T02:47:37.127-08:00Comic Book CrudRyan Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339563822767237642noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146044196171160715.post-31839278153887475882013-02-14T00:51:00.000-08:002013-04-05T05:13:44.766-07:00Ryan B reads Poetic Justice<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Ah, Valentine's Day. </span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">A day where we are encouraged to share our hearts with our one true love, whether they want it or not.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">In my case that "one true love" would be the beautiful Sabrina Spellman from the next town over. That bewitching beauty has had my heart since I was a young boy, and this Valentine's Day I'm finally going to show her how I feel. I just have to get that Harvey guy out of the way first.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">So while I do that, why don't you enjoy this heart pumping tale from The Haunt of Fear #12...</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">What an offal thing to receive on Valentine's Day. Old Henry was probably only expecting SHOCKolates.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Speaking of which, I wound up giving Sabrina a pretty big surprise. I gave her the news that poor Harvey has died (without a fight). She was sad at first, but then agreed to go out with me on a date to the drive-in to see a romantic movie... Brain Eaters from Planet Neptune.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Wish me luck, gang, and have a happy Valentine's Day yourselves! </span> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">Howdy, all you fiends and lovers out there!</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">Tom Bones here again to tell you all about the live action adaptation of Poetic Justice that appeared in the 1972 Tales from the Crypt anthology movie by Amicus pictures.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">First let me say that this is not only THE BEST segment of the TFTC film, but also one of the few adaptations of a comic that surpasses the source material. The film version follows Arthur Grimsdyke (a name I like far more than Elliot) as he is persecuted by his rich and greedy neighbors just like in the comic. Grimsdyke is made even more sympathetic in live action, however, for two reasons.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">One is that he's played by veteran actor and horror movie mainstay, Peter Cushing.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">And the other is that Grimsdyke, unlike Elliot, communicates with his dead wife via Ouija board which is heartbreaking to watch, especially considering that Cushing's own wife had just died in real life and that's the reason he took this part in the first place.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">All the main plot points of the original story are hit. The neighbor's son (who in the film is far more evil than his father) gets Grimsdyke's dogs taken away from him, then gets him fired from his garbage collecting job, then turns all the parent's of the children Grimsdyke loves so much against him. All the while his father doesn't actively encourage his behaviour, but doesn't stop it either. Finally the bastard sends Grimsdyke the insulting Valentines.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">Which are pretty much word for word to the ones in the comic. Grimsdyke kills himself of course and only then, after about a week of not hearing from him, does anyone go into his house and see that he is dead. Unlike the comic though it is the father of Grimsdyke's tormentor who is surprised to see the house spotless. One year later Grimsdyke rises from the grave on schedule to pay his killer a Valentine's Day visit.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">And the story ends with a little poem, which I think is what the comic version was missing the most, especially considering it's called "Poetic Justice".</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">"You were mean and cruel right from the start. Now you really have no..."</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">Hehehe</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">Just perfect. This is really worth seeking out and watching this Valentine's Day if you haven't seen it already, or hell, even if you have! If not for that great ending alone, than at least for the great performances from all involved, particularly Cushing.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">Okay, I'm out of here for now, my friends. I gotta go see if I can dig up some flowers at the local cemetery for my own Valentine. Think she'll be surprised when she sees me with them standing on her doorstep?</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">Later.</span></span></b></span></div>
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Ryan Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339563822767237642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146044196171160715.post-65714068511963391652013-01-28T22:57:00.000-08:002013-01-28T22:57:28.311-08:00Ryan B reads A Little Stranger<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> It's been a wild broom ride, kids, but here we are, the end of Witchuary.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And what better way to wrap up this enchanting month than by going back to the beginning?</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Whose beginning, you ask?</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Let's find out. </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">From The Haunt of Fear #14, drawn by Graham Ingels, this story will put some wolfsbane in your blood...</span></b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And there you have it. </span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">A star is born.</span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Welp, I best be going. I'll catch you all next month when we'll be looking at a batch of scary stories with a little heart to them.</span></span></span></b><br />
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Ryan Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339563822767237642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146044196171160715.post-125756158495493282013-01-22T10:50:00.001-08:002013-01-22T10:50:59.844-08:00Ryan B reads How To Win A Witch<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This story is pretty much Bewitched and I Dream Of Jeannie combined. It's from issue #26 of The Witching Hour and goes a little something like this...</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A witch lottery? Now I've seen everything.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I guess Lester got what was coming to him, the jerk. Now he's basically stuck with two wives: one to hag and one to mold. Hehehe</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Okay, I'll get out of here now. Be sure and join me next time, though, as we wrap up this spellbinding month with the origin story of every one's favorite old witch.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Bye-o!</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Witchuary continues with a tale from yet another of The Witching Hour's three witches. This time it's Mordred, the oldest and saltiest member of the coven who brings you a story from 1973's issue #34. It's written by George Kashdan and drawn by Rico Rival and is about an obituary writer who gets too involved in his work.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But I'll let Mordred tell you all about it... </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Maybe Pettibone will think twice about snooping around in the affairs of others from now on. Otherwise it may be him who winds up all wet next time.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Tell next time, my fiends, stay creepy!</span></b></span></span><br />
<br />Ryan Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339563822767237642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146044196171160715.post-1528072045406374992013-01-06T23:31:00.003-08:002013-01-06T23:38:15.304-08:00Ryan B reads When Satan Comes A-Creeping<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Witchuary continues with a story from yet another book and host that has never graced this blog before. The Witching Hour was one of many horror anthology titles put out by DC Comics in the 1970's along with others such as The House of Mystery and The House of Secrets. </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The book featured three storytelling witches who lived in a spooky castle with their hideous (yet never seen) servant named Egor. This tale from issue #18 is told by Mildred, the plump, middle aged of the three witches and concerns a man, a woman, and of course... Satan.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Wait, so his punishment for killing her cat is that he has to live with an ugly wife? Only in the friggin' 70's. Anyway, I hope you all found that story... whatever. I can't even come up with a proper pun. That tale was so lame it affected my brain. Oh well, they can't all be winners.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">See ya next time, gang.</span></b></span></span><br />
<br />Ryan Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339563822767237642noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146044196171160715.post-31828139454927770202013-01-01T23:32:00.000-08:002013-01-01T14:58:02.420-08:00Ryan B reads The Boy Who Cried Vampire<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>With the new year comes new fear, so I thought we'd kick of Witchuary here at Comic Book Crud by looking at a story from a book that we haven't ever covered before on this blog.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>In 1972 Archie Comics (yes, THAT Archie Comics) decided to get in on the horror comic game that was just starting to become profitable again following the comics code authority's war on fright mags, and what they came up with was an anthology book along the same lines as Tales from the Crypt and The House of Mystery entitled, Chilling Adventures in Sorcery. </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>It was hosted by Sabrina Spellman, of The Teenage Witch fame (hubba, hubba), and drawn in the traditional Archie style by artist Stan Goldberg.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Well, by some standards maybe. You certainly can't deny that it was risky. The stories regularly featured standard horror fare such as monsters, death, evil, and ironic or unhappy endings. Not the kind of stuff you'd typically find at Pop's Malt Shoppe. </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>I guess parents thought it was scary enough, because it only lasted for a handful of issues.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Okay, enough history. Today's story comes from issue #1 of Chilling Adventures in Sorcery and proves that if you're going to be a tattle tale you better have more bite than bark.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Take it away, Sabrina, you foxy little teenage dream...</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia;">Catch you chickens later!</span></b>Ryan Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339563822767237642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146044196171160715.post-80851597968078389552012-12-25T01:51:00.001-08:002012-12-25T01:51:25.398-08:00Ryan B reads Elvira's Christmas Carol<br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia;">Christmas day has finally come and Santa brought me everything I asked for... after a little persuasion. Once I let him go and he flew out of sight, he shouted, "Merry Christmas to all!" and then took off in fright.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia;">So since I'm in such a holly jolly mood today I decided to give you all a Christmas treat. A story featuring many of your favorite horror hosts including Cain, Abel, Destiny, and Elvira! There's even a special (sort of) appearance by Zacherly.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia;">So here ya go, from Elvira's House of Mystery Christmas Special, it's a horrific twist on a classic Dickensian tale.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Well I hope all you delinquents enjoyed that. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Now if you'll excuse me, me and Tom are going to go engage in some holiday hijinks. I think we'll start with some good old fashioned Christmas caroling. I've got the eggs and toilet paper all ready to go.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My Grandma got run over by a reindeer last night. </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It was pretty horrible actually. She was walking home from our house after her and my mom's weekly "eggnog party" that they always do in December, and from what we and the police can gather she must have been crossing the street when she was suddenly trampled by an escaped 200 pound reindeer from the local zoo.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I was the one who found the body the next morning while taking out the trash. There were hoof prints on her forehead and there was a ton of blood and gashes all over her body. Her head was also partially smashed in.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">No one witnessed the accident (if it was in fact an accident) and the reindeer is still at large, so if anybody has any information, please call the Pleasant Hollow sheriffs department at Klondike 555-976-1313.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And now, from 1974's Creepy #59, story by Bill Dubay, art by Richard Corben, here's a bloody holiday romp yule just die for...</span></b></span></span> <br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Oh, and in light of this recent tragedy/whatever I have finally decided what I want for Christmas.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">For Christmas I would like you to bring me:</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: lime;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A double barreled shotgun.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: lime;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A bear trap.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: lime;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Reindeer food.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: lime;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A hose.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: lime;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Horror comics.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: lime;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A new leather jacket.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: lime;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">War on Earth.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: lime;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And animosity towards men.</span></b></span> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Amen</span></b></span></span></div>
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Ryan Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339563822767237642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146044196171160715.post-54718786814985713972012-12-08T22:33:00.000-08:002012-12-08T22:33:09.258-08:00Ryan B reads Santa's Claws<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hey-o! </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">How are all you comic book creeps doing tonight, or today, or whenever the hell you're reading this?</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia;">Me, myself, and Tom are decorating my Christmas tree at the moment. My momma didn't think we should have one this year, because they cost too much money and she already blew the Christmas budget on Arnold Stang albums, Yoohoo, and vodka for herself. I took care of it though, I borrowed this one from the Krelmoore's down the street. It just had lights on it when I got it, so me and Tom are improvising some ornaments. A shrunken head, some skeleton garland left over from Halloween, A voodoo doll on top instead of an angel. It looks boss so far.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia;">Anyway, you didn't come here for my tree, you came here for horror comics, so while I get Tom's boney ass untangled from all this silver tinsel, why don't you check out this helladay treat from 1970's Web of Horror #3. It was drawn by Frank Brunner and written by my favorite scribe, Bruce Jones. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia;">Go on, Webster, weave us a tale...</span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Git 'em, Santa! I always knew you were a bad ass.</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia;">Okay, so that story was pretty cool. Want to know what's not cool? My tree. Turns out those lights were faulty and the whole damn thing went up in flames. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia;">Maybe I should have watered it.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia;">Oh well, it's the thought that counts.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia;">Oh, yeah, I almost forgot, I was supposed to let you delinquents know what I wanted for Christmas by now. To be honest I haven't really given it much thought since last time, but I'll definitely, definitely, maybe have a list written out by next blog.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia;">Probably.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Well ho ho holy crap, it's Christmas once again!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Christmas is actually my favorite holiday right behind Halloween. It's a time when things seem just a little more bright. Particularly if you happen to fall asleep next to a roaring fire and accidentally roll in.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Don't laugh, it happened to a friend of a friend of a friend of my cousin.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Okay, you can laugh a little.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>But seriously, this story really made me start thinking about what I want for Christmas myself. Besides war on Earth and animosity towards men, of course.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>I'll have to sleep on it and let you guys know in my next blog. Remember, all this month we will be looking at Christmas themed horror comic stories, so until we meet again, gang, try to be of good fear.</strong></span>Ryan Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339563822767237642noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146044196171160715.post-81789288879652056862012-11-27T19:50:00.001-08:002012-11-27T19:50:46.027-08:00People Are Strange...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>They're the only thing that truly fills me with dread, and so I thought that today I would bare my deepest fear to you all and together we could delve into a twisted web of terror from Tales from the Crypt #29 featuring those disgusting little nasty monsters.</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia;">*Shudder*</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Oh, settle down, Webster, you know I don't mean you.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>So there ya go, gang, something to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving day. Be thankful that you haven't been eaten by a giant spider... yet.</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia;">Now go away while I fumigate the place.</span></strong><br />
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attention, it has been many a full moon since I covered a story from Tales from
the Crypt. So, to avoid any personal loss of life or limb I suppose I should
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia;">So far this story has only been adapted once, and that was for the 1972 anthology movie, Tales from the Crypt, directed by Freddie Francis and produced by Amicus Productions.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Reflection of Death segment of the movie stars Ian Hendry and Angela Grant. Hendry plays the main character who has had his name changed from Al (which it was in the comic) to Carl. Oddly enough the character actually named Carl in the comic is nowhere to bee seen in this version and is replaced with a character named Susan (played by Grant). Susan is Carl's lover who he is cheating on his wife and children with. The reason the two of them are driving together in the first place in fact is because Carl and Susan are going out of town for a lovers tryst.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia;">Of course the story ends with the same twist. Carl wakes from this horrible dream only to have it actually come true. But in this version he totally deserves the bad things that happen to him, as The Crypt-Keeper (Played by Ralph Richardson) points out. He is an adulterer after all.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So, I go to open the old comic book trunk in order to pick a new story to share with you creeps and who should be hiding inside, but...</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Okay, okay, you do have a point, Crypty. I suppose I haven't ventured into the crypt since my very first post on here, so as a personal favor to you my next blog will be a tale from the crypt. Happy?</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I like how Eddie's dad just hands him over like a candy apple. Hahahaha</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Because, you know gang, that's what Halloween is all about.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia;">Giving.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia;">Okay, that's all for now. Me and Tom have to head down to the malt shop on Main Street and start defacing some property. We're already way behind on our Halloween prank quota.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia;">Until next time, try to stay scared.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia;">Since the season of the witch (October) is upon us now and Halloween is right around the CORONER, I thought it would be only too appropriate for me to give you all a little treat. Or is it a trick? You'll have to read it to find out. </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia;">It's a story from EC Comics' SHOCK SuspenStories #9 and it's adapted by editor Al Feldstein from a short story by none other than Ray Bradbury himself. The art is by EC veteran, Jack Kamen, and it'll no doubt put you in just the right mood for this holiday season.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia;">Well, maybe I will be. Tom just gave me a ring on the telephone and told me that he found his grandad's old army rifle, so were gonna meet at his house later and play firing squad.</span></strong></div>
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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
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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
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>The story starts outside the Westwood Orphanage as some of
the little ragamuffins who live there peek through a downstairs window at an
old lady doing something suspicious with candles and a skull. Abel informs us
that it’s been half a century since old Mrs. Winter disappeared. </strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>This old bat must be Mrs. Winter</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>He also says that the kids she tormented are the only ones
who know where she vanished too, but they aren’t talking. No one would believe
them anyway.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>As the kids continue to watch, Mrs. Winter proves she is
indeed a witch, when she mumbles some satanic incantations, focuses her black
mind (Abel’s words, not mine), and steps into a large, scenic painting of a
garden.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>One of the little girls, Sally, gets scared and wants to go
to bed, but a boy named Tom-</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Wants to stay and watch.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Abel says that Emma Winter might have been a witch, or she
might not have been (I think she is), but either way, she did do what she did
that night: she freakin’ walked into a painting!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>And once inside she couldn’t be happier.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>She quickly leaves, though, just to prove that she can, I
guess, and as soon as she steps back into the real world she catches a glimpse
of the orphans looking through the window. Faster than you’d think an old lady
like that could move, she’s outside chasing them, although, since they live
there, I’m not exactly sure where the orphans think they’re gonna go, but
anyway, she soon catches one. It’s Tom.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>She asks him what he was doing there and what he saw. He
won’t say. She asks him who the others were that were with him. He won’t say.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Snitches get stitches at Westwood apparently.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Tom calls out to a Mr. Favor for help and presently an old
ginger man with a kickin’ mustache comes out and asks what’s going on. Mrs.
Winter tells Mr. Favor that the children have been sneaking and are not to be
trusted. She drags Tom inside and says that they’re going to get the truth from
him.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>I’ll let Abel tell you a little bit about Mr. Favor.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Mrs. Winter has heard enough. She says she’ll take Tom and
get the truth from him her own way. Mr. Favor says okay, but to be careful
because he’s only a child. </strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>She takes Tom down into the cellar where she whips out her
cat-o-nine tails. Tom tells her that he can’t tell her the names of the others
who were with him, and they didn’t see anything anyway. She doesn’t believe him
and promptly beats his ass.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Assuming that her
secret is indeed safe, Mrs. Winter and the rest of Westwood Orphanage go back
to normal. Sometime later the food bill comes and she’s outraged by how much
they’re spending to feed the kids. She decides to cut the food bill in half and
pocket what’s left over. In fact, she already has quite a small fortune in cash
hidden away from Mr. Favor in a small, metal lockbox. Presumably she’s been
saving up to buy a new Nimbus 2000 or something.</span></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Meanwhile, the old crone just goes inside her pastoral
painting to while away the hours in the warm sunshine, rolling around in the
grassy fields. After one such trip, she steps out of the painting to find
little Sally sneaking some coal from her own personal cache. </strong></span></div>
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younger kids are freezing, but surprisingly, Mrs. Winter doesn’t care so much.
Sally asks not to be punished, but Mrs. Winter says she’s not going to punish
her; she’s going to make an example of her. She drags Sally down into the
cellar and makes the other kids come too to watch.</strong></span></div>
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the other kids decide to take action. They go to Mr. Favor and tell him
everything. He agrees to check out the situation and together, he and the
children go down in the cellar where they find Sally dead on the coal heap. Mr.
Favor finally realizes what a putz he’s been and confronts Mrs. Winter.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Winter then runs from the room, past the kids waiting in the
hall, and into her own office. Fortunately, one of the kids was prepared for
this outcome and knew what to do. He watches through the window as Mrs. Winter
concentrates and works her mojo, then she steps into the large painting.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>I’m kidding; this is a horror comic after all. Karmas
coming.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>The kids call the police, but when they arrive, they’re
baffled. There’s no sign of Mrs. Winter anywhere in her office. The windows
have bars and there’s only one door. One cop speculates that there may be a trap
door, but the janitor (where’d he come from?) assures them that there are no
trap doors or anything in that office and the office looks exactly how it did
last time he was in there.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>With one exception.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>The big, scenic painting of the grassy, sunny fields is no
longer there. In its place is now the one that hung in Mr. Favor’s office. With
one minor change.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>The kids who knew what was up weren’t gonna talk of course,
so the mystery of what happened to old Emma Winter would forever remain just
that, a mystery… or perhaps a… secret?</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Well, I have to say, I’m a little surprised. The House of
Secrets has a reputation for not being as good as The House of Mystery, but so
far I’d say the score is:</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Abel: 1</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Cain: 0</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Of course, I don’t want to take sides. That’s one sibling
rivalry you don’t want to get involved in. But everyone has an off day. Cain
will have plenty of opportunity to redeem himself here on Comic Book Crud,
because believe me, there’s a buuunch of horror comics here in my old uncle’s
trunk and me and Tom don’t have anything better to do. </strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>We’re delinquents, you know?</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>I give this one 8 out of 10 Werthams.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>P.S. Didn’t she look at the painting before stepping into
it? Oh well.</strong></span></div>
Ryan Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339563822767237642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146044196171160715.post-66306355647720786702012-09-04T03:06:00.001-07:002012-09-04T03:06:25.862-07:00Ryan B does Majority Of One
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>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…</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Majority Of One. </strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>A man – a wolfman – winces and howls in pain as a bullet
grazes his shoulder. It comes from the gun of a man who is part of a mob
chasing the creature. Quickly recovering from the pain, the werewolf runs towards
some nearby woods and heads inside. </strong></span></div>
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but soon he has bigger troubles when he steps into a bear trap.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It only slows him
down a little, but it’s long enough for the pursuers to catch up, which was its
purpose. The werewolf frees himself quickly and turns to run again, but slips
and falls down a ravine. He lays there for a while at the bottom listening to
the sounds of the hunter’s and their dogs. Finally he draws his strength and
gets to his feet. He sees a nearby cave and heads inside of it just in time to
avoid the mob as they pass by over head. They look down into the ravine and see
nothing, so they move on. The cave isn’t unoccupied, however, and the wolfman
soon finds himself wrestling a bear. He sinks his fangs into the animal’s
throat.</span></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>The bear is no match for Wolfy’s superhuman strength and
dies without much fight. Several hours later, after he’s sure that the mob
chasing him has moved on, the creature leaves his shelter and heads towards the
smell of food.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Shortly he comes upon a beautiful woman in a clearing near a
shack getting water from a stone well. He’s enamored with her and watches her
go inside her home with the water, and then he creepily watches her through the
window.</strong></span></div>
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can, and takes her blonde ass outside to investigate a strange noise in the
dark. Suddenly out of nowhere comes, not a wolfman, but a manman.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>He doesn’t find this strange or anything, so he follows her
inside where she explains that she heard about him on the radio. Apparently
he’s the “last one left”. She offers him some coffee. As she serves him, the
man asks her if she is afraid of him. She tells him yes, but it doesn’t make a
difference since there’s no way she could keep him out. She tells him that she
has a child named Amy in the next room and asks him how he has survived so long
while the others were wiped out long ago. He says he’s a survivor and then asks
her name. She says, “No names”. When he asks why she says that he won’t live much
longer and she doesn’t want to remember the name of the man who made love to
her and then died.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>The woman explains that her husband was shot dead four
months ago because of what he was and now they’re watching the house, but so
far no one knows about the wolf baby, they just suspect it. She says that her
husband was a general during the war and then afterwards they opened the door
one day and his own men came in and shot him.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>“Funny how quickly people ‘forget’ once you’re no longer one
of the majority.”</strong></span></div>
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exchange for their own life. She asks her guest if he thinks that’s terrible.
He says he might do the same in a similar situation. She strips naked and
continues, saying that the only reason they hated her husband and the reason
they also hate her guest is because they’re impure, only hairy half the time.
If they were just one way it would be different, but they’re inconsistent and
it’s the inconsistency people hate. The two lay naked together on the bed about
to have sex when suddenly the door is thrown open and the angry mob of hunters
burst in. The man realizes too late that the woman was only distracting him
until they showed up. She’s the one who betrayed her husband and now betrayed
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reminds me of one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes, Eye Of The Beholder.
In this world where wolfman is the norm, it is the hairless man that is the
freak. The detailed artwork by Val Mayerik really helps to bring the story to
life and the color is especially vivid and bright. The blues and reds in
particular stand out to me. I don’t know if there’s a symbolism to that or not
and I don’t really care. This is a comic book after all, so let’s not over
think it too much, but let’s at least think about the message of the story and
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Realizing his life is at stake, the doctor agrees to do what is asked of him. Sam tells him that he wants a whole new face. That he wants to look like a different person completely. The doctor says that is a difficult operation and he doesn’t have enough equipment at his home. Sam tells him to make do with what he has. They go into the doctor’s lab and he tells Sam that he’ll need to put him under an anesthetic. Sam tells Willie to watch the doc and make sure he doesn’t try anything funny.<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Oh EC, you gruesome bastards. This is a pretty simple story with an obvious twist, but damn it if it isn’t effective. You really have to keep things in perspective when reading the old stuff. What seems like hackneyed and obvious tropes now, were fresh and brilliant when EC was doing them for the first time back in the early 50’s. Kids must have peed themselves when they saw Sam Brogen’s mutilated face by flashlight… uh, light under the covers at night. The art by Wally Wood is great and at only six pages it’s a brisk little tale that moves along at a good pace. <o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">I can’t help but wonder, though, if Willie and the doc were so certain that they were gonna be killed by Sam when he woke up that they went ahead and messed his face up, why not just kill him while he was under and split the money between them? <o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>So in 1951 when EC Comics launched their very first horror comics, thus giving birth TO the horror comic, and starting the "new trend", DC, like so many other publishers, decided to jumped on the horror bandwagon. The result was The House Of Mystery. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Deep in the bowels of Arkham Asylum, in the cell all the way at the end of the hall, The Joker let's out a long, yooo-hooo, to the person in the cell next to him. He then proceeds to welcome them and say good morning. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>"So sneaky, our medical staff processing you in the middle of the night," he says.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"></span></strong></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>He says he heard the staff discussing the inmate and how the story that they told was disturbing. So far there's been no response from his unseen neighbor, so he goes on. He says that it's probably too dark to tell, but the cell that is now being occupied is covered in blood stains. Joker says they're not his fault, but he does know how they got there.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>"Waylon Jones... A.K.A. Killer Croc. Ring any bells? I thought it might. What a monster! But like all misunderstood cannibalistic reptile-men he possesses a gentle soul..."</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>He then jumps face first into the tale, stopping only to point out that he realizes the title is unoriginal, but doesn't care. Point goes to you, Joker.</strong></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"></span></strong></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>So, Killer Croc sits chained to the wall of a padded cell while a man in a tie and slacks sits far across from him. The man's holding a file and introduces himself as Dr. Cross. Dr. Cross says that according to the file Croc's last doctor noticed "an unfortunate regression" in his human characteristics. He asks for Croc's thoughts on that, but gets nothing. He moves on to talking about Croc's time in juvie and later prison down in Florida. Nothing. He brings up how hard it must have been growing up with the condition Croc has and about him being raised by an alcoholic aunt after his father abandoned him. Still nothing. So he starts at the beginning, how Croc's mother died giving birth to him.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Dr. Cross tells Croc that he can suppress his humanity all
he wants, but that “those chains and your guilt are both going to bind you here
forever.” At that moment a college pops his head in and says that he needs the
doctor’s assistance. Cross steps out for a moment and Croc takes this
opportunity to tick one of his fists in his mouth. When Cross comes back, he’s
quite surprised to find Croc in need of a hand.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Next thing you know Commissioner Gordon and the Batman are
at the asylum surveying the carnage. Batman says that Croc belongs in a cage,
not an asylum and Gordon agrees. Gordon then expresses doubt that Croc could
survive his horrific wounds. Batman says that after escaping, Croc took to the
sewers and then surfaced in “Orphan Alley” which sounds like a swell place.
Blood pooled where he fell and then that’s it, no tracks or anything. As is he
just vanished into thin air, or was picked up by someone, but “who would pick
up a monster off the street?” Batman wonders. I dunno, Bats, who would pick up
little boys at the circus? It takes all kinds.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>We soon find out exactly who would pick up a monster off the
streets when Killer Croc wakes up eight days later on a cot in a crappy little
room with a guy who looks like Bill Lumberg standing nearby. The man introduces
himself as Edgar Mason and tells Croc that he’s free to go if he wants, but
cops all over the city are looking for him. He tells him that he and his wife
bandaged up his bloody stumps, but when they saw that his hands were growing
back, they took them off. Croc looks at his new hands to see this is so. Edgar
then says that once he’s feeling up to it, maybe Croc would like to join he and
his wife and together they could all rule Gotham’s criminal underworld. He
takes Croc’s not killing him as a maybe.</strong></span></div>
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bringing him food. She introduces herself as Juliette, Edgar’s wife and offers
to help him eat on account of his hands being new and all.</strong></span></div>
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telling him about her and Edgar’s operation. She says that he runs guns for
someone named Callahan, but really wants to run the town. All he needs is a big
break. She asks if Croc will help them.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>So Edgar shoots Callahan and tells Croc that now they need
to make sure people know that they run things in Gotham. Sometime later Edgar
and Juliette move into a nice new home and Juliette expresses her delight that
Edgar is the boss now and they call the shots. All the while, Croc looks on as
the silent enforcer. Juliette notices him, though, and tells him not to hide in
the shadows. Edgar says he’s part of their family now and all three of them
celebrate.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>A few days later Juliette walks in on Edgar having a meeting
with some underworld types. He tells her to go deal with their other guests, so
he can conduct this little meeting in secret. When she leaves he tells the
assemblage that he now runs Orphan Alley and they’ll report to him from now on.
They don’t seem too pleased about this. Edgar notices and thinks they’re going
to plot against him, so he tells Croc to “take them all out before they work up
the guts to do something to stop us.”</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Later that night he walks into the Mason’s covered in blood
and finds Juliette there drinking alone. She thinks at first it’s Edgar coming
in, but then she sees it’s Croc. She asks if he’s okay, but then says of course
he is, nothing can hurt him. She says Edgar is supposed to be back by now, but
is probably off having secret meetings behind both their backs this time. Croc
doesn’t say anything, so she goes on. She tells him there’s no use letting
dinner go to waste. They can enjoy it together after he cleans up. She says
that they don’t need Edgar for any of it.</strong></span></div>
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gets in late. She says she was at her mother’s, but Edgar doesn’t believe her.
He wants Croc to be with her from now on as a sort of body guard, she objects,
but when she gets out of the shower the next day Croc is there waiting for her.
Over the next week she adjusts to having him as a babysitter and starts to
confide in him about things. She says that she feels like he’s her closest
thing to family now that her husband is away so much on business. Finally she’s
able to talk him into letting her go out alone. When Edgar finds out, he’s
furious, but then realizes what a bad idea it is to get mad at the giant
crocodile towering over him, so instead he gives him an address and tells him
to take care of anyone inside… anyone.</strong></span></div>
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Inside is Juliette and a man with a shot gun ready to blow Croc away. Juliette
says this wasn’t the plan, but to shoot him anyway and keep shooting. He’s not
human. Before anyone can do anything, however, Croc just walks away without
even entering. Juliette tells the man they’ll stick to the original plan and
that he needs to hit her.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>When Croc get’s home, Juliette’s already there waiting for
him with a black eye. She tells him that Edgar did it and that he was trying to
set Croc up to be killed. Before she can finish, Croc storms off to Edgar’s
office where he bursts in and kills him. Juliette’s impressed. She tells Croc
that they need to get into Edgar’s safe now and he promptly rips the door right
off it. At this point her “friend” from earlier comes in and shoots Croc with
the shotgun. It’s nothing to Croc who throws the heavy door at the man, taking
his head off. Then he turns on Juliette, who tries to talk him down by telling
him that he’s not a monster…</strong></span></div>
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Croc kneeling over both Edgar and Juliette’s dead bodies and for the first time
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laughing his head off. Then he taunts his neighbor, whom he’s been telling this
whole story to, by pointing out that after hearing this whole sordid tale he
has absolutely nothing to say about it. Not even a giggle?</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>In many ways this story owes something to the old EC mags I
think. At its core it’s a story about crime and love and corruption and
betrayal that would be right at home in Crime SuspenStories. But throw in a big
scary monster and plenty of gorey deaths and you’ve got your horror comic
elements too. And that’s exactly what makes Batman stories like this so great,
that you’re able to get both horror and noir elements into the same tale and
have them blend seamlessly. </strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I give this one 7 out of 10 Werthams.</span></span></span></span></strong></span></div>Ryan Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339563822767237642noreply@blogger.com0