I SELL THE DEAD comic book in stores this Wednesday October 7!

Image Comics presents a Glass Eye Pix production of the I SELL THE DEAD comic, based on the award-winning motion picture starring Dominic Monaghan, Larry Fessenden, Angus Scrimm and Ron Perlman.

Written by I SELL THE DEAD writer/director Glenn McQuaid with art by "GUERILLAS" creator Brahm Revel, this beautiful volume is made up of 40 full color pages of undead thrills and chills plus 5 bonus pages on the art of the film!

When 19th Century justice catches up with the infamous grave robbers Grimes and Blake, the condemned Blake reveals to the peculiar clergyman, Father Duffy, that you can never - ever - trust a corpse.

Don't hesitate! ... (more…)

Publisher New Baby Productions announces that a graphic novel adaptation of Derek Gunn's acclaimed VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE novel series is in the works. "I'm really thrilled with this new direction as I always felt that (VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE) really lends itself to this format," stated Gunn. VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE was published in September 2006, and has been optioned by producer/screenwriter Richard Finney to be a feature film. A script has already been penned by Finney and Franklin Guerrero Jr. FALLOUT, the third book in the series, will be released this October from Black Death Books.

According to Gunn, "The stories are set in the near future in a world grown insular after a brief war has left ... (more…)

On the darkest streets of New Orleans, immortal forces from the past have crossed into our world. In their own time, when Prince Vlad Dracula and Countess Erzsebet Bathory took the lives of others, the did so remorselessly and for their own reasons - some for war and others for pleasure. The world has never seen inside the mind of those out of a time when life held little value for those that would take it at will. Until now.

The two immortals only knew violence in their former lives. Now, born again with no understanding as to why, nothing will prevent them from extracting their vengance on a world with few answers.

Dead Souls, a three-part comic book series written by Kurt Amacker and drawn ... (more…)

John Sowder is an up-and-coming comic book artist, writer and filmmaker. We first met on a message board several years ago, and we've had to a chance to watch each other's careers over the past few years.

After talking about doing a possible project together for awhile now, it looks like it might finally happen. John and I have started work on a comic book story called Flesh Magus, which deals with supernatural beings and earthly intrigue. It's just in the beginning stages, but I've been pretty psyched about working with John, and I really hope this blossoms into something.

In the meantime, John seems to be having some success with his comic book art. His art in the comic Midnight Warriors ... (more…)

I try not to cover what we might label "big ticket" items when I write these reviews, and, in terms of comic books, I'd like to think this includes stuff churned out by "big ticket" publishers like Marvel and DC. After all, if everybody already knows about it, why do we need one more voice on the internet discussing it?

But this month I've gone with the obvious because of the obvious. April's Swine Flu hysteria following so closely on the heels of Asia's Avian Flu hysteria demands a review of the comic book adaptation of Stephen King's apocalyptic novel, The Stand, as published by Marvel Comics.

Incidentally, when you watch the news on television with the sound muted, and the graphic behind ... (more…)

Ripped from the pages of Andre Duza's novel DEAD BITCH ARMY, the new graphic novel HOLLOW-EYED MARY, from Devil's Due Publishing, reads like an origin story: the tale of Bloody Mary, also known as Hollow Eyed Mary, a zombified woman who, along with her band of terrorists, seeks to plunge the world into an apocalypse.

The tale begins with a school in a future/alternate earth where we are told it is 2004. A great catastrophe has occurred, and a teacher stands before her class - all of them are wearing gas masks - when one of the students blurts out a question about someone called "The Queen."

The teacher, Lisa Ludlow, then goes about telling her students the "untold story" of where the Queen, ... (more…)

Multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jonathan Maberry's first foray into the world of comic books hits newsstands today. Maberry, whose latest novel, PATIENT ZERO, was just published by St. Martins Press, is also the author of ZOMBIE CSU, recently nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Nonfiction. He scripted "Ghosts," an eight page backup feature in Marvel Comics' WOLVERINE: THE ANNIVERSARY. Maberry's tale was illustrated by Tomm Coker.

Maberry's first full-length comic, PUNISHER: NAKED KILL, will be available June 3rd. Perhaps of greater interest to Fear Zone readers, Maberry wrote the novelization for Universal's upcoming, eagerly anticipated remake of THE ... (more…)

Jose Gonzalez, considered the definitive artist for Warren's black and white VAMPIRELLA magazine, passed away at age 70.

I used to buy VAMPIRELLA at the comics shop only when there was no FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND to be had. At age 8, I had very little use for erotic horror comics. I remember leaving an issue at a friend's house once, and his very stern Republican mother called my mother and said, "Don't you ever let him bring this garbage into our house again!" Who knew boobs made some adults so uptight? Not me. The woman's son, my friend, grew up to be a brain surgeon with such a raging drug addiction that he left the operating room in the middle of brain surgery on a patient to ... (more…)

Tex Arcana was a continuing comic serial that ran in magazine Heavy Metal way back in the early 1980s. I missed it in its first incarnation, but had it pointed out to me that the entire run, plus two more unpublished volumes of the serial were available online, for free, at www.texarcana.com. You're welcome. Do not write to tell me I never do anything for you.

The series is set in the Old West, in the town of Hangman's Corners, "a sleepy cow-town nestled on the frontier". In the first page, we have a cowboy-looking fellow on a ridge overlooking the town. But unlike most westerns, he's trailing a long black cape and speaking aloud to nobody in articular: "Perfect! Now I'll find myself a cave ... (more…)

It is 1986. I am nineteen. I am in Portland. I stopped reading superhero comics a few years back when I traded them for underground /indie comics. I draw and publish comics of my own. I have nothing but scorn for superheroes. My friend Doug, who still reads superhero books, tells me there's this guy from 2000 AD DC brought over from England and he's doing Swamp Thing and I've really got to read that, and I scoff. He tells me this guy's got a new series and it's mind-blowing and I'm like "It's about superheroes, right? Snort." He makes me take home every Alan Moore issue of Swamp Thing and the two issues of Watchmen out so far, anyway. The next day, I go to the comic book store and ... (more…)