11/01/2009: The Walking Dead
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This is easily one of the best zombie comics series I’ve ever read. I will even say that it is a high point for zombies in any medium, but that’s not to say that the zombies are the sole stars of this one – more like, zombies are the backdrop to life-in-general.
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10/13/2009: Lovecraft
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Presuppose that one day in the early twentieth century, an odd young boy named Howard Phillips Lovecraft comes into posession of a fabled evil ancient tome, The Necronomicon.
This book, originally released as a hardcover graphic novel and later as a softcover trade paperback, is sort of a fictionalized revisionist account of the man whom many [...]
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09/13/2009: Texas Chainsaw Massacre Wildstorm Comics
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I specify the Wildstorm imprint version because I really didn’t care for the Avatar Press releases. I thought they suffered from a bit too much of a ‘Page one: big-tits-naughty-language-gory-kill … Page two: big tits-naughty-language-NEXT-gory-kill’ kind of formula, thanks/no thanks to Brian Pulido & company.
Enter:
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Thankfully, this time the quality’s a little more spot-on. [...]
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11/13/2008: 30 Days of Night
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I usually have major reservations going into any story that prominently features vampires, in any medium.
I can count my favorite vampire anything on one hand: in film – Shadow of the Vampire, in novel(la) – Salem’s Lot/Jerusalem’s Lot, in comics – Preacher (not about a vampire per se, it does prominently feature one or two, [...]
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