Year: 2017

These guys have been rebooted in a major way recently, but I don't know, as fantastic as the make-up and prosthetics are now, I still kind of prefer the old clunkier version. Partly nostalgia, I'm sure, but also because they look less human.

This was pretty controversial at the time. The show was still considered kiddie fare at the time, and this freaked a lot of youngsters out. Parents were concerned, but the kids actually loved it, of course. It heralded a new, more horror-oriented bent for the program.

G-Fest 2017 has announced its film slate, showing at the gorgeous theater I grew up in, the Pickwick in Park Ridge, IL. Thursday July 13th Afternoon 1:00 King Kong vs Godzilla 3:00 Dragon Wars Thursday Evening 7:00 Godzilla vs Megaguirus 9:00 Godzilla (2014) Friday Night 10:30 Kong: Skull Island Saturday Night 10:30 Shin Godzilla…

Yay!, it's Friday. Another advantage of a Monday holiday is that you have a short work week to follow. (Although perversely, it often seems like a longer one.) This is more of a classic monster rumble cover for Eerie Publications, although the use of mummies is fairly novel.

If Benny Hill did horror comics. This might be the most sedate Eerie Publications cover ever. Even so, and I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I loooove me some skeletons.

  Eerie Publications' dedication to cramming as much 'horror' onto every cover is endlessly amusing to me.

  I hope everyone had a good long weekend. I again spent most of it watching Friday the 13th the game videos, as the actual game was released this weekend. Still enjoying that, go figure.

Not my Ghost Rider, especially the cartoony version in the comic book (same with this new Luke Cage comic), but on Agents of Shields he's pretty sweet. I certainly like him better than Danny Ketch. I love the classic Johnny Blaze-esque jacket, although sadly it means that the actual Blaze Ghost Rider in the…

As Marsden noted yesterday, this guy clearly seems a nod to Thor's very first antagonists, a race of Thing-like aliens seen below. Man, there were a lot of alien invaders in those days. I still miss the whole Don Blake thing, but that's just me showing my age. Still, the whole bit of Blake…