Archive for September 17th, 2009

What should have been a week, became almost a month. Yes, kiddies, it was last month that I made the commitment to review each and every story in Dark Horse’s Creepy issue #1. I had two reasons for doing this.

The first was my mistaken belief that it would help me get used to writing everyday. It didn’t.

The second, was the need to really bitch out loud about a couple of the stories in the magazine. I wanted people to see that I could do more than just bitch. I hoped that writing reviews of the good stories would balance it out. That didn’t work either.

Free at Last…

The issue is over. Save this last couple sentences I never need to write about it ever again. Let’s get the last review out of the way quickly, shall we?

The last story in this new horror anthology was a reprint. It was called Daddy And The Pie. It may have been cool in the fifties or whenever it was originally carved on a cave wall, but in 2009 it just doesn’t cut it. Written by Who Cares, and illustrated by I. Dongiv Ashit.

I originally thought the story was one of the better ones in the rag. But that has changed. It was not a horror story. It was not new. It should not have been there.

When Creepy Did Not Suck…

The real Creepy magazine (Creepy TOS) had twice the number of pages as the new one does. If they are going to keep the page count so damned low, they don’t have room for reprints.

Many have said that it’s so wonderful that there are no ads in it. I disagree. Add about 20 pages even if they are all ads. The magazine will be better. I like seeing other things of interest. I think of ads as a service to me, not an imposition. (unless they’re Join-the-Fuckin-Army ads.) But if they are ads for things that I would like and otherwise would not know about, bring them on! I have no clue how often the best thing in some of the comics I have read has been the ads, but it’s pretty often that’s for sure.

Now that I have gotten this unnecessary challenge out of the way I get to write about things that are actually good. I recently got 2 new comics that are very good indeed. One of them is House Of Mystery and the other is Darkness: Pitt.

Come back soon kiddies and you will hear about good horror, and see way better images.

Oh, and the next issue of Creepy comes out in October (Joy). Let’s hope these guys have read my posts and improved the mag. I will buy it of course, because it’s my damned job. But if this one doesn’t show a marked improvement over the last one, I will not be as nice about the whole thing as I have been.

I need a shower.