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I Luv Halloween

All hail writer Kieth Giffen and artist Benjamin Roman! The two volumes of their I Luv Halloween semi-manga series are gruesome and grotesque like nothing you’ve ever seen or read. The smallish black and white books deal with an innocent enough subject, neighborhood friends go trick or treating. But, there’s nothing ordinary about what happens […]

Guy Davis’ THE MARQUIS

It’s not like me, but a while back I bought a graphic novel I knew nothing about based on the strength of the cover alone. The book was titled The Marquis: Danse Macabre and featured a rather threatening image of a long faced and angry-evil man in a black cloak and tri-cornered hat. It held […]

Film Review: 300

Wasn’t it just a little while ago that so-called “green screen” movies, movies shot entirely on green sound stages so as to add completely computer generated everything later on, were regarded as unusual?

I remember when Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow’s very existence was owed to the fact that it looked like nothing you’d […]

Hellboy: Sword Of Storms

While the flesh-eating zombie is America’s true addition to the horror cannon (that and Ann Coulter, brrr), the comic book is our great gift to the world of literature. It’s a book, it’s a movie, it’s both!

Now, with the miraculous new medium of DVD, it really IS both. Welcome to Hellboy: Sword Of Storms the […]

Comics: And Now for Some Zombie Action!

I’ve been following zombies in print and on screen ever since I scared myself half to death watching the original Night Of The Living Dead. I was twelve and the idea of being eaten alive seemed not only gruesomely terrifying but entirely possible.

So possible, in fact, that I was up all night not long […]

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