Archive for July 13th, 2009

Welcome to today’s post. In yesterday’s post I mentioned that today’s post would be about something that Dark Horse comics was doing. And it is. To avoid rambling on and on, which I am known to do, I’ll just say it flat out. Dark Horse comics is printing a new series of Creepy magazine.

I only found out about it very recently. I’m sure they were planning it for quite some time. I’m also sure they probably had a lot of press releases or some such about it already. But I didn’t take up the whole blogging thing until just recently. I therefore did not make newsgathering or research an ongoing part of my existence, as it is now.

I don’t have a lot of information about the new production. I will share with you what I know right now, and I’m sure there is a lot of stuff out there on the net about it already. The main reason I wanted to get this blog post out, was to let you know that I am watching this magazine. And I’m going to tell you about how I feel about it. As of right now I feel very excited about it.

Some of the things that make it very exciting for me include the fact that some of the original artists from the 1960’s series are on board for, at least, issue number one. And issue number one is going to actually be in the store. In two days, that is Wednesday July 15, 2009. That I’m excited is an understatement.

My feelings about it are, of course, mixed. If it’s good, it’s exactly what I’ve been wanting. If it’s not good, or more precisely, does not meet my personal expectations, then there’s a good chance I’ll be unnecessarily hard on it. Very much the way, Star Wars fans were unnecessarily hard on episode one.

So, what I know for sure about the new Creepy, is that it’s going to be a quarterly publication. It will have a cover price of $4.99, and some of the writers working on it are original writers. Some of the artists are original artists too, by that I mean artists from the original Creepy magazine. Angelo Torres and Bernie Wrightson being among them.

According to Dark Horse’s own website writers for issue number one include Neil Kleid, Joe Harris, Dan Braun, and Mike Woods. The artists for the new issue include Angelo Torres, Bernie Wrightson, Jason Shaun Alexander, and others. I hate to say this but as of this moment, I don’t know if Richard Corben is alive or not. (note-I checked, and he is still alive.) He was one of my favorites, and I hope he shows up in this thing at some point. Whether he does or not, I will be doing some posts about him in the future and some of his other works, not the least of which was in Heavy Metal magazine.

So if you’re wondering where I’m going to be for at least a few minutes on Wednesday, July 15, 2009. It will be at the local comic shop snarfing up a copy of this magazine. Once I get home I’ll shut all the doors and windows take the phone off the hook, make sure I’ll be undisturbed for awhile and dive in. If it’s any good. I’ll probably go back to the shop the next day and buy the rest of them. (Just to encourage Dark Horse to make more.).

So check back on this blog on, or shortly after, the 15th to get detailed reviews and opinions of this magazine.

Oh, I almost forgot, the image included in this blog post is from a copy of comic shop news. It’s a complimentary newspaper, which is printed to be given out at comic shops. I wasn’t sure at the time, if it would be, but it turns out that this image is actually the cover of the new creepy issue. The image you see here was cropped to remove the graphics that were placed on it. They said. “Comic shop news, Summer preview”., across the top. And then at the bottom of the page. It had the word creepy, using a standard typeface. If you want to see what the actual cover will look like go to Dark Horse’s website. And if you’d like to see the actual cover of the comic shop news Summer preview issue, go to your local comic shop and pick up a copy. It’s free.

Thank you so much for reading this. I will see all you people, on Wednesday!

PS — I forgot to mention the cover painting is done by Eric Powell.