Monday, October 18, 2010

Bram Stoker's DRACULA (Topps Comics, 1992)



Quite possibly one of the best comic book adaptations of a film ever done, IMO. Mignola's work on this is nothing short of awesome..

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Sabrina, The Teenage Witch #58 (Archie Comics, August 2004)




I don't know why, because I'm not a manga reader, but the Tania Del Rio run of Sabrina, The Teenage Witch has always kinda intrigued me. I've always meant to track down the run and give it a read out of curiousity's sake, and finally have. I think the thing that fascinates me the most about it is that it's pretty much the prototype for some of the stuff that Archie Comics is experimenting with these days (i.e., a change-up to the Dan DeCarlo driven "house style", continuity influenced story arcs, etc.,)...


From Wikipedia:




In 2004, beginning with issue #58 (in the second Sabrina the Teenage Witch comic book series), the comics were taken over by Tania del Rio with her manga-inspired art and design style. The comics were then released featuring new characters and a slightly more serious, continuity-heavy plot. The manga Sabrina story wrapped up at issue #100 in 2009, albeit with a few unresolved subplots. Only one manga-sized trade paperback was released during the series' run, reprinting issues #58-61.

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Sunday, September 26, 2010

Comic Book Collecting And History (VHSRip, 1989)







Here's another VHS I've picked up at some time, somewhere, over the last two decades that I have no clue where it came from. If yer into Gary Owens, the artwork of Steve Rude, and a comic shop owner that was typical of the type in the late 1980s, this is your lucky day!






Saturday, September 25, 2010

Todd McFarlane's Comic Book Facts and Illusions (VHSRip 1992)






I purchased this VHS at some point around 1992 or '93 from my hometown Wal-Mart. After going back and viewing while I was making the transfer, and came to the conclusion that you....yes, you!...will BELIEVE that a guy who sounds like and acts about as smart as Bill Murray in Caddyshack can make a million bucks drawing funnybooks....

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Dakota North Investigations (Marvel Comics, 1986)

I loved this quirky little book during it's publication (way back in '86 to '87....man, am I showing my age), and am glad to see the character getting some on-panel time in the current run of Daredevil...


Sunday, August 29, 2010

Gary Gianni's The MonsterMen (1999, Dark Horse Comics)



For decades, the skull of the world's most dangerous necromancer has been guarded in a secret Tibetan monastery. Now the whereabouts of the skull have been discovered by creatures who would use it to awaken its former owner. Now Benedict, boneweary after five centuries of battling for the Order of Corpus Monstrum, heads into the Himalayas to take possession of the skull, but not before confronting the monstrous Yeti, while St. George, millionaire film mogul, falls off the side of a mountain. Eisner Award winner Gary Gianni (Batman Black & White, Solomon Kane) breaks out of the pages of Hellboy with his bizarre adventure team in their first feature presentation. Mike Mignola provides a backup: "Goodbye Mister Tod," in which Hellboy battles a horrible thing that's coming out of a guy's mouth.

I remember really digging this book (and it's cast of characters, which I first discovered via the back-up published in various Hellboy projects), and had hoped Gianni would follow up on it, but I believe he hasn't. It's a shame, too..

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