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Ghost Whisperer Comic Episode Airs This Week
While comic book adaptations are nothing new to television, it’s only recently that comics themselves have featured so predominantly on TV. Heroes, The O.C. and Supernatural have all enjoyed episodes or story arcs involving them colourful lil’ pamphlets in some form or another.
Ghost Whisperer will also be having a comic-centric episode this Friday 2nd April, with … read more
Stephen King’s N. #1 Comic Review
Marvel, $3.99
Creative director: Stephen king
Script: Marc Guggenheim
Art: Alex Maleev
The sequential art edition of Stephen King’s N. has a somewhat convoluted production history. Originally part of King’s short story collection Just After Sunset, it was translated into a series of twenty-five ninety second-long video “mobisodes” by Spider-man and Flash writer Marc Guggenheim and Daredevil talent Alex … read more
Omnitarium #2 Comic Book Review
Ronin Sudios
Writer: Jamie Gambell
Art: J.C. Grande
Letters: Bernie Lee
Issue 1 of Jamie Gambell’s sinister period horror Omnitarium was a book of two distinct acts. An action-packed prologue detailed the execution of cultist Harrow Moonheart a century before the main events of a second, slower and more ominous half set within the confines of the fictional London Pentansly … read more
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Tagged comic books, Digital Comics, horror comics, indie comics, small press
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Song of Saya #1 Comic Review
IDW, $3.99
Writers: Daniel Liatowitsch, Todd Ocvirk
Art: Yair Herrera
A young doctor’s promise is cut short when a car accident kills his parents and leaves him in need of experimental brain surgery. Josh finds his perceptions warping from between our established reality and a hellish landscape of organic, haemorrhaging structures and hideous physiognomies. Now confined to the hospital he … read more
A Rope Around Your Broken Neck Review
2010, Attackosaur
Writer: Martin Ian Smith
Art: R. Ricardo, Nicolas Brondo, Lara Phillips
Ouch. You’ll probably not find a more brutally named comic than A Rope Around Your Broken Neck, but it’s a fittingly severe title for this grim tale of the relationship between an imprisoned priest and a prison guard turned executioner in plague-infected London, 1665.
The Great … read more
2012: Final Prayer Graphic Novel Review
2009, Heske Horror
Writers: Chris McJunkin, Ollie Masters, Shawn Gabborin, Jim Alexander, Shamere Borg, Xander Bennett, Robert Heske, Arno Hunter, Christopher Barker, Craig Gilmore, Rita Gorgoni, Adam Grose, Dino Caruso, Don E. Smith Jr., Duncan Eagleson, Martin Hayes, Jason Light, Marie D. Jones
Artists: Chris McJunkin, Andy Fish, Mario Cau, Andrew Dodd, Melanie Cook, Adam Swiecki, David Edwards, Marc Jameson, … read more
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Tagged graphic novels, horror comics, indie comics, small press
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Bone Chiller Graphic Novel Review
2008, Heske Horror
Written by: Robert M. Heske
Art: Monty Borror, Zeu, Preston Asevedo, Alian Norte, Dirk Shearer, Reno Maniquis, Adam Swiecki, Breno Tamura
The good ol’ fashioned horror comic is alive and kicking like an angry reanimated corpse in Bone Chiller, an anthology of ghoulish tales from screenwriter Robert M. Heske.
The standard many such horror showcases seemingly … read more
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Tagged graphic novels, horror comics, indie comics, small press
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The Waking #1 (of 4) Comic Review
Zenescope, $3.99
Writer: Raven Gregory
Pencils: Vic Drujiniu
Colours: Mark Roberts
The Waking’s is a decidedly old-fashioned horror story, a Gothic tale in which the dead are seemingly returning from the grave to exact revenge on their killers. Unlike many other horror titles, the gore quota is downplayed in favour of a thoughtful, intricate narrative told from the perspectives … read more
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Tagged comic books, horror comics, Zenescope, zombie comics
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Daffodil #1 Comic Book Review
Marvel/Soleil, $5.99
Writer: Frédéric Brrémaud (translated by Stephanie Logan)
Art: Giovanni Rigano
Colours: Paolo Lamanna
You only have to glance at the website for Soleil Productions (hey, come back!) to appreciate how many titles the French publisher currently has on offer. English speakers who’ve wanted to sample some Gallic comics that don’t feature Asterix will be happy to hear that … read more
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Tagged comic books, French comics, horror comics, Marvel Comics, vampire
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Alien vs. Predator: Three World War #1 Review
Dark Horse, $3.50
Script: Randy Stradley
Pencils: Rick Leonardi
Inks: Mark Pennington
Colours: Wez Dzioba
Anyone who got into comics during the early nineties will likely have fond memories of Dark Horse’s numerous movie tie-ins, the most successful of which by far was Aliens vs. Predator and its thousand or so predecessors. Well, having recently resurrected the Alien and Predator… read more
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Tagged Dark Horse Comics, horror comics, movie/tv adaptations, sci-fi comics
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