STRANGER THAN FICTION: AN INTERVIEW WITH ROB REGER

How would have thought that a little girl, first conceived as a design for skateboards, would become a world phenomenon? That is the case of EMILY THE STRANGE, the famous comic book and T-shirt character created by Rob Reger. Known even in my country (Argentina), EMILY may seem like a poster child for the emo-generation, but that would just be scratching the surface. It's really a very darkly humored piece of entertainment, living in its own original world. And in today's remake-driven horror culture, "an original world" is indeed something to treasure. I asked Rob a few questions about his creation and his love of horror, and here's what ... (more…)

HIS DARK MATERIALS: AN INTERVIEW WITH ALAN MOORE

We all know Alan Moore is a visionary. He has created some of comic's most original and haunting stories and characters of our time. Books like V for Vendetta, Batman: The Killing Joke, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell and, especially, Watchmen are not only heavily influential tomes but also amazing food for thought as literature. I called him to his Northampton home to discuss his highly controversial and original vision of sex called Lost Girls, and also his new tales of he Lague. Before you ask, Alan doesn't care about the WATCHMEN movie, not even if Zack Snyder gets it right. He's had enough of Hollywood. So let's ... (more…)

THE LAST WINTER Graphic Novel in stores this Wednesday, March 26 from Image Comics!

Based on director LARRY FESSENDEN's chilling eco-horror film starring Ron Perlman, James Le Gros and Connie Britton, THE LAST WINTER GRAPHIC NOVEL tells the story of an oil company's advance team struggling to establish a drilling base in the Arctic that will forever alter the pristine land of Northern Alaska. After one team member is found dead, a mania slowly claims the sanity of the others as each of them succumbs to a mysterious fear...

With 128 pages of beautiful black and blue artwork by Glass Eye Pix Art Director BRAHM REVEL and script by screenwriters LARRY FESSENDEN & ROBERT LEAVER, THE LAST WINTER ... (more…)

ASYLUM's DTOX hits comic stores early

DTOX: SPECIAL BIOHAZARD EDITION, introduces a new character to the Asylum Universe. DTOX is presented in a magazine size format. DTOX is written by Frank Forte (Warlash, Undead Evil) and illustrated by Nenad Gucunja (Satan's 3-Ring Circus of Hell, Girls and Corpses).

DTOX takes place in a post-Armageddon future. The lone biohazard warrior fights to cleanse the earth of a rising toxic mutant population. Killvixen, a knife-wielding femme fatale, soon joins him. Together, armed with the mobile arsenal code-named DTANK, they travel the ravaged midwest in search of rogue monstrosities and fuel. This 12-page action packed story introduces the world of DTOX, ... (more…)

Hey, I'm Sergio Lopez and this column will be your one-stop guide to everything happening in the world of horror comics. (Just remember: if any of these comics catch your eye, check out the bottom of the column for info on how you can find out where the nearest comic book store is located). So, let's get started...!

The End Is Near...

Comics publishing company Dynamite Entertainment has announced that the current storyline in ARMY OF DARKNESS (the comic book based on the cult classic movie by Sam Raimi, which features our hero Ash, the 'Chosen One,' in battle against zombies called Deadites and an evil book called the Necronomicon), will end soon. It's called 'The Long Road Home,' and it ... (more…)

You might remember (those who grew up during the 90's, at least) Mark Verheiden as the writer of TIMECOP, the film that featured one of Jean Claude Van damme's better performances. However, Verheiden is much much more than a film screenwriter, he's also one of comic's most original voices, and also a big movie and comic book buff. Besides writing the official comic book adaptation of Sam Raimi's THE EVIL DEAD, he's also responsible for writing the highly anticipated Bruce Campbell directed vehicle MY NAME IS BRUCE. We discussed all of this, and some other cool things.

I understand you started writing films like TERROR SQUAD and THE MASK... did your career begin in comics or movies? How did ... (more…)

Yawn.

The problem with any sort of zombie comic is that the comic book market has been saturated with them for what feels like a very long time now.

They all have similar plots, generally-speaking, because that's part of the 'zombie structure'. This is how 'zombies' as antagonistic devices work. Watch George Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and you've pretty much covered everything required - living people are trapped by an ever-increasing number of dead people (who want to make them dead as well) and must find a way to escape. Repeat ad nauseum.

Without getting too heavy into traditional monster archetypes, because there are books and critical essays about that elsewhere, the general concept ... (more…)

Steve Gerber wrote comic books.

Monday night, my friend John Sowder sent me a message that Gerber had died. I immediately went to Brian Keene's blog, because I knew if anyone else was going to be as bummed out about this as I was, it was Keene. Of course, he already had a post up, memorializing Steve and explaining how Gerber had been an influence on him. Three seconds after I logged off, I got a phone call from Mike Marano, telling me that Gerber had died. Why all the hubbub about a guy who wrote comic books?

Because, for those of us who grew up on his stuff, he was so much more than that.

I remember being about 9 or 10 years old and I'd just started buying comics regularly. Since I'd started ... (more…)

So, in my small mind, there are two general 'streams' of comic book types.

There are 'superhero' comics. That is, four-color, panel-oriented stuff with linear plotting and not a whole lot of subtext or social commentary going on. The purpose of these comics is to entertain. They do this very well, mostly.

Then there are 'other' comics, usually developed along non-traditional streams - propaganda strips, R. Crumb-style comics, political satire, and those weirdo novel adaptations that somebody always bought you for Christmas and you never read: Jack London, Moby Dick, etc. Let's say this category of comic intends to inform - artistically, or otherwise.

It's rather simplistic, but ... (more…)

EVIL DEAD COMIC REVIEW by Nicanor Loreti When I first heard about it, I couldn't wait to read it. Then, I started to hesitate. Do we need a comic book adaptation of a classic movie we all love? Would it be on the level? Or just sacrilege? Those were, indeed, tough questions for a film and comic book fanatic.

Most movie-to-comic book adaptations lose some of the original flavor on the way. It is obviously a difficult task and few succeed to bring something fresh to what was seen on screen. However, stuff like Mike (HELLBOY) Mignola's DRACULA (adapted from the Francis Ford Coppola movie) were works of art that could stand on their own.

When it came to the Dark Horse version of Sam ... (more…)