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The story isn't as simple as a crash, his computer died, he took it into a local repair shop, the shop ended up failing the same week and employes/owner sold or kept all the computers they had and ran.
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Fell is dope, one of my favorite things Warren Ellis ever did. I liked Green Wake a lot too. I really need to check out Bulletproof Coffin. Shaky Kane did a really sweet cover for a good record that came out recently and it got me wanting to check out some of his stuff.
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Oct 26, 2013 20:59
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SirDan3k posted:The story isn't as simple as a crash, his computer died, he took it into a local repair shop, the shop ended up failing the same week and employes/owner sold or kept all the computers they had and ran. And a dog ate his notes.
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onefish posted:I feel like one of the folks who wrote or drew Hector Plasm showed up in Something Awful a few times? Those are also each ~50 pages for a buck. I've been a member here for almost eight years and I have, I dunno, hundreds of posts. I even posted in this thread.  Anyway, if you want to decide whether the Hector specials, which retail in print for $5 each, are worth $2 for both, there is a free story not contained in either book here and an animatic video of a story from the second volume here.
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muscles like this? posted:I've always liked Hitoshi Iwaaki's Parasyte. Basically its kind of like The Thing: the Series where spores from space land in various points over the world infecting people and replacing their body parts with shape shifting alien bits. The difference is that they can't replicate the entire body so they take over a body by just replacing the head and neck. The main character, Shinichi Izumi, is a high school student who gets infected but through a twist of fate the parasite infects and replaces his right hand and the two start working together to fight the other parasites.
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The whole thing was released in America by Del Rey's manga division so you can probably just get it on Amazon.
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Benito Cereno posted:I've been a member here for almost eight years and I have, I dunno, hundreds of posts. I even posted in this thread. Haha. No frowning face needed. I am definitely the newbie when it comes to comics commentary here, not you, and it was my fuzzy memory. Thanks for the links. I already bought the issues off the strength of the three preview pages/memories of your posts/price, but I expect more people will hopefully do so now if they hadn't already. Edit: halfway into the first Hector Plasm book and it's a blast. Is that first story at all a Tom Waits/Black Wings hat tip? onefish fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Oct 27, 2013 |
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http://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/1444/dark-horse-publish-ec-library-tales-crypt-coming-h Don't forget Tales from the Crypt Volume 4 collects issues #35–#40, featuring stories drawn by all-star comic artists Jack Davis, Joe Orlando, Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels, George Evans, Reed Crandall, Bill Elder, and Bernie Krigstein comes out this Wednesday!
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onefish posted:Is that first story at all a Tom Waits/Black Wings hat tip? Definitely. Tom Waits's music is a big influence on that book.
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muscles like this? posted:The whole thing was released in America by Del Rey's manga division so you can probably just get it on Amazon.  Incidentally I wish the actual 'The Thing' movie comics were, well, better. The best ones they did were as a one-off backup story in the "Dark Horse Comics" serial anthology series. The ones that acted as a sequel to the movie and had MacReady started out mediocre, kinda sorta started improving in quality briefly, and then nosedived and got really lovely. It doesn't help that I am not a fan of Paul Gulacy's artwork at all. Xenomrph fucked around with this message at 04:09 on Oct 28, 2013 |
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Xenomrph posted:Incidentally I wish the actual 'The Thing' movie comics were, well, better. There was a short, semi-unrelated arc, where Thing infects two folks and then has to keep from infecting more folks and getting out of control/drawing attention. Thing One infects a mistress or something and it all goes to tragic poo poo.
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Choco1980 posted:What a coinkeydink, I was just about to post another story from Monsters Attack! by Madman. Any idea who this guy is? 'Madman' is Rurik Tyler. Looks like he moved on to work work in Jersey.
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FilthyImp posted:They basically took a turn towards Alien for a long bit, where MacRipley kept coming across the damned thing. Keeping Mac around wasn't exactly good storytelling, sure, but the biggest problem is the comics ignored what made the movie "work" - both in terms of tension and paranoia, and the basic mechanics of how the creature functions. Of the 3 arcs in the Macready sequel storyline, the second one "got it" the best.
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My favourite horror comic author of the moment is Joshua Hall Simmons, who made the fantastic and haunting graphic novel HOUSE and contributed a bunch of stuff to Cinema Sewer and other alternative comic zines. His work has that nightmarish dream-logic thing going on, where truly awful things happen to innocent people, which I reckon is the most horrifying kind of fiction. His art isn't exactly breathtaking, but it's expressive and subtle and suits the creepy subject matter perfectly. from House If you can track down Sleazy Slice #3 or The Furry Trap, do so immediately: They both contain the short horror story Cockbone is one of the most effective and chilling horror comics I've ever read - I found it when it was posted in an old webcomic thread on here, and it's since been taken offline. Watch out tho, it contains grotesque sexual body horror from page one. House is probably easier to find, but just as scary; it's a wordless graphic novel in which three people get lost exploring an old building. Its's claustrophobic and mystifying and totally unexplained. Good stuff all round!
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This thread inspired my to read a bunch of Junji Ito for the first time this week. Good stuff. I don't know if horror cliches are different in Japan, but it was refreshing to read stories where bad poo poo just happens to people who don't do anything to set it in motion. No teenagers being murdered for having sex, no fall from grace for someone trying to play god, no Willy Wonka type punishments for various vices, just terrible things happening to people living their normal lives. It makes it seem like something awful can happen to you for absolutely no reason. It's an effective technique. I loved the protagonist's boyfriend in Uzumaki. He was actually pretty worthless as a character. But I loved his "this poo poo again? gently caress this town" face he constantly makes as the chapters progress. Even as they are attempt to flee the town, he has this look on his face that can only be described as wearily annoyed by the horrors that refuse to stop. edit: Anyone know if the movie adaptation is any good? Professor Wayne fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Oct 30, 2013 |
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Lurdiak posted:Stay the hell away from Hack/Slash. I so wanted to like Hack/Slash, but the creator's way more interested in porny pin-ups of the protagonist than in the story or characters. Such a disappointment.
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Professor Wayne posted:edit: Anyone know if the movie adaptation is any good? It's not as good as the comics, but it's decent and it really goes for it with the weirdness factor.
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Professor Wayne posted:This thread inspired my to read a bunch of Junji Ito for the first time this week. Good stuff. I don't know if horror cliches are different in Japan, but it was refreshing to read stories where bad poo poo just happens to people who don't do anything to set it in motion. No teenagers being murdered for having sex, no fall from grace for someone trying to play god, no Willy Wonka type punishments for various vices, just terrible things happening to people living their normal lives. It makes it seem like something awful can happen to you for absolutely no reason. It's an effective technique. You're not wrong that a lot of awful poo poo happens to people for no reason, but there's definitely a bunch of characters who either get warned about the town and ignore it or get ironic punishments for their minor character flaws. The girl with the crescent birthmark and the girl who was jealous of the protagonist's hair come to mind. Professor Wayne posted:edit: Anyone know if the movie adaptation is any good? I hope you like really unconvincing and inappropriately used CGI.
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It's kind of hard to separate it from the comic, but it's a good film with a very unnerving atmosphere, and it does a lot of neat visual tricks like hiding subtle spiral effects in the background and such. Unfortunately it just kinda ends out of nowhere and it does adapt the "hair" story which is easily my least favourite part of the manga. Regardless, it's way better than the Gyo anime. My favourite part about Ito in general is that no one ever panics. The characters just kind of accept that the weirdest poo poo ever just happened and that nothing will ever be the same again. The boyfriend in Uzumaki is the prime example of this. I love that whole weary resignation theme, it makes his stories that much more nightmarish.
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It was the Uzumaki movie that introduced me to Junji Ito, and I enjoyed it, but because of that, I have a soft spot for it.
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Yeah, Uzimaki is okay, but not nearly as good as the books. It's kinda more focused on the wry cartoony aspect of Junji Ito's work, and it's very obvious that the movie was made before the third book was finished, as it just sort of ends. I think the Tomie movies are better at capturing the over-the-top-ness of his work, where you just find yourself cackling at how insane everything's gotten, in spite of still being way off the mark themselves. Then again, I've only seen like the first...five? of them, so I don't know if they get to the full excess levels of the book.
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New comic from Emily Carrol, just in time for Halloween: http://emcarroll.com/comics/skin/
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Hakkesshu posted:My favourite part about Ito in general is that no one ever panics. The characters just kind of accept that the weirdest poo poo ever just happened and that nothing will ever be the same again. The boyfriend in Uzumaki is the prime example of this. I love that whole weary resignation theme, it makes his stories that much more nightmarish. I read Glyceride the other day, and that whole story is just a series of the protagonist accepting her awful situation, even when her dad wakes her up while force-feeding her a bottle of cooking oil. It's just "hey everything is hosed, guess I better....stay put?
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The fourth and final issue of the Halloween anthology BOO! is out from Monkeybrain today, available exclusively on Comixology. The series was created and edited by Calamity John Morris, who also did the great framing story about a reality show for horror hosts, which features analogues of such renowned figures as the Old Witch, Elvira, Svengoolie, the Phantom Stranger, and so on. Each issue features three stories that span the spectrum of horror from light-hearted spooky comedies to full-on body horror. Stand out stories come from guys like Kyle Starks and Joel Carroll. The fourth issue features a brand new story by me and Les McClaine called "Dilemma at Floyd's Crick," about a couple of gentlemen on the hunt for a local legend. Each issue is only 99 cents and is perfect for those in the Halloween spirit. Here are all four issues: http://www.comixology.com/BOO-Halloween-Stories/comics-series/12229
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Green Intern posted:I read Glyceride the other day, and that whole story is just a series of the protagonist accepting her awful situation, even when her dad wakes her up while force-feeding her a bottle of cooking oil. A all-pervading, dreamlike lack of agency is a key part of Junji Ito's oeuvre. When characters take action to improve their situations, it's often arbitrary and ineffective. See also: the protagonist in I Am A Hero.
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I'm reading some old Dracula Lives! Marvel mags, and I hope you all read at least one spooky comic today!
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Benito Cereno posted:The fourth and final issue of the Halloween anthology BOO! is out from Monkeybrain today, available exclusively on Comixology. I have bought every issue and will back up Benito 100% here, and not just because some pals of mine on the Twitter Machine are all over this book.
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Pope Guilty posted:I so wanted to like Hack/Slash, but the creator's way more interested in porny pin-ups of the protagonist than in the story or characters. Such a disappointment. I ended up catching up on this for some reason and yeah it's boring crap up through the end. They tossed in a cop out ending with some girl detective curing the disease that makes slashers crazy and immortal so they could revert the protagonist when she went full slasher to save the day in the last issue, then she steals her dead friend's baby and runs off with a sexy lesbian. If that sounds dismissive it because I don't remember her name and her entire character was "sexy lesbain" in that bad writing way.
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SirDan3k posted:I ended up catching up on this for some reason and yeah it's boring crap up through the end. Nerds ruin everything.
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Pope Guilty posted:Nerds ruin everything. In my feeble defense the books were freebies from one of my friend's failed attempts to get his ladyfriend into comics, why I actually finished reading them however I don't know. SirDan3k fucked around with this message at 11:23 on Nov 1, 2013 |
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Even if the writing had been good (ha!), for a comic about violence and gore, the art was laughably bad at conveying anything that looked like real injuries, or indeed any kind of dynamic motion. Just two mannequins posing at each other until a bit of one falls off.
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Unfortunately I don't know who made this, I just randomly stumbled upon it on tumblr, but it's too cool not to share       
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Yeah I noticed that going around because a Beasts of Burden photoset I posted started get favs again. It's Beasts of Burden by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson. It's gorgeous and spooky and sad and good.
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Humboldt squid posted:Unfortunately I don't know who made this, I just randomly stumbled upon it on tumblr, but it's too cool not to share Aw, man, that's good. Less frightening and more melancholy, but touching. Thanks for sharing it.
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Beasts of Burden is the best. You should get it. Or, if you're not sold yet, Dark Horse has the first three stories on their site for free.
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Are the EC reprints by Gemstone good? I've heard mixed things about their coloring.
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Smoking Crow posted:Are the EC reprints by Gemstone good? I've heard mixed things about their coloring. It's a lot cleaner than the reprints in comic/annual form, which could be offputting, but it's definitely worth a buy.
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This comes from the Argentinian comic Alta Vista by Fernando Calvi. It ran in the comics magazine Fierro. The translation here was obviously done by a non-native English speaker, but it works well enough. I wouldn't call it straight up horror, but this is probably the thread where it fits best.       
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Wow, lots of great suggestions here (plus Junji Ito's Cat Diary- I've read almost all his horror work, but that's a new one for me, so thanks for letting me know it exists!). I came over from the Creepy Images thread in PYF after sharing illustrator/comic artist Emily Carroll's website, and someone there suggested I mention it here as well. It absolutely seems like her work would be in this thread's wheelhouse. She does awesomely creepy short-story comics that make great use of the internet format. http://www.emcarroll.com/comic/ "The Prince & the Sea" is my personal favorite, but "His Face All Red" and "Out of Skin" are excellent as well. Really, all of them are worth reading, but those ones are standouts for horror.
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