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2015
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Halloween Binge: City of the Living Dead
If you’ve paid any attention to my taste in horror you should have seen this coming. For those new here – “Hi, I’m Harry, and I like Italian horror, and Lucio Fulci in particular.” There’s… [more]
The New Star Wars Trailer: It’s All Real
I know what JJ Abrams, his marketing team and the entire apparatus of the Hollywood marketing machine are doing with Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I’m aware, at least to some extent, of how the… [more]
Smorgasbord #29: The Once and Future Eisner Award Winner
Tom and Shawn grapple with the post NYCC landscape, including the Mighty Marvel Movie Shuffle, Dynamite’s women in fancy new duds, more 80s properties on their way to IDW (we saw it coming!), the possible… [more]
Halloween Binge: Peeping Tom
Last year around Halloween I decided to make a show out of my articles and review a pile of horror movies. Not a particularly novel idea, in fairness, but one I quite enjoyed. I watched… [more]
Halloween Binge: Goodnight Mommy
Goodnight Mommy was not what I expected. Which isn’t to say I had particularly in depth expectations for the film. The trailer had selected a few choice shots from the film that made me think… [more]
Project Greenlight Episode 6: What’s That on the Fan?
Six episodes into the fourth season of Project Greenlight is exactly how long it took for Jason Mann to graduate from struggling auteur to Mr. Hollywood. We can see the transition in this episode’s final… [more]
Back to the Grind: Why the Grindhouse Needs to Return… Now
There was a time when movies were more than just moving pictures, a time when special effect sequences were only apart of the maker’s imaginations and had not reached the confines of our own reality,… [more]
And His Name Is Scott: Why Scott Snyder’s Work Exemplifies Magnificent Superhero Storytelling
There are numerous writers whose talents have lead to tremendous careers in the comic industry. With the greats ranging for Moore to Morrison, Miller to Pope, and Rucka to Brubaker, the list goes on of… [more]
Send in the Slashers: Why the Assembly of Cinema’s Greatest Horror Icons Can Be a Successful Movie Franchise
There is nothing like a great crossover story, a time when creators bring icons together in a vicious battle to see which one emerges victorious. Recently, however, the concept has become more popularized, with the… [more]
Ranking Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation‘s Action Scenes
So I saw Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation fairly late into its theatrical run. It was a random choice based on what was playing at the time. I’d heard it was a fairly good action… [more]
“Being The Frightful Smile Of Their Creator…” – Grimoires and Ghoulish Acts in Providence #5
“Non-Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange background of multi-dimensional reality behind the ghoulish hints of the Gothic… [more]
The Boy: A Portrait of a Movie Slasher
The Boy is another movie on my shortlist of new releases I felt like I should catch up on. An indie coming of age story that is actually a monstrous-themed serial killer’s coming of age… [more]
The Nightmare and Sleep Paralysis
This year, for the first time ever, I suffered a bout of sleep paralysis. It wasn’t anything particularly unique, as far as these attacks go, but that didn’t matter in the moment. In the moment,… [more]
Believe the Aquaman: Why the King of Atlantis is the Real Deal
If you consider yourself familiar with comic’s most popular super heroes than you are capable of identifying those that are considered the best: Superman, Spider-Man, Batman, Iron Man, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, and… [more]
Project Greenlight Episode 5: Adapt or Call Cut
The Leisure Class officially moves into production on this week’s episode of Project Greenlight, and writer/director Jason Mann continues to act as an uncompromising and determined filmmaker, even as the realities of time and budget… [more]
Robert Moses Peaslee and Robert Weiner on The Joker: A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime
Robert Weiner has either authored or co-edited close to a dozen academic text examining comic books and popular culture. He is also the Popular Culture and Performing Arts Librarian for Texas Tech University Libraries. With… [more]
“Welcome to My House … And leave something of the happiness you bring”: Orson Welles’s Dracula
The other day I saw an amusing social media post from Stephen Bissette, the legendary Swamp Thing penciller. He was mocking a recent online article that promised a list of 11 little known horror films… [more]
Southern Bastards #11: Serpents
Each new issue of Southern Bastards seems to get deeper, more thoughtful and more artful in its rendering of the American south. The book has always had a wonderful ability to capture the Southern Gothic… [more]
Plutona #2: In the Woods
Plutona continues to excel at assuming the point of view of children in a complex and difficult world. One of the great things about that particular point of view, especially with regards to this kind… [more]
Smorgasbord #28: Sandcastles in the Sand
Tom and Shawn discuss recent news out of Baltimore, Mark Millar’s third run at playing Simon Cowell, the redemption of Chip Zdarsky, Genndy Tartakovsky’s CAGE!, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s upcoming run on Black Panther (and why people… [more]
Project Greenlight Episode Four: So Long, Pete Jones
“There’s an art to compromise,” says Pete Jones in the latest episode of Pete Jones States the Bloody Obvious, aka Project Greenlight. This week’s episode is all about how the filmmakers and producers populating that… [more]
Wizard World Comic Con–Nashville Notebook: Day Two
I just got insulted by Howard Chaykin. That’s like the comic book world’s equivalent of getting roasted by Don Rickles. [more]
The Strain and Vampire Culture
Vampires have changed tremendously over the years. They used to be representative of the bestial side of human nature, thoughtless creatures of pure Id, no better than animals themselves. Over time, however, they have evolved… [more]
Forrest Helvie on The Adventures of Whiz Bang
Sequart: Forrest, I understand you’re running a Kickstarter campaign for an emerging-reader comic book? Forrest Helvie: I am! It’s for my book The Adventures of Whiz Bang: The Boy Robot, and it’s running now through… [more]