Month: April 2018

AvED does the Killer Baby trope. Usually it's not the tot saying, "I could just eat you up!"

Anyone watching the third season of Ash vs Evil Dead? Best season yet, I think.

I'm sure I featured the Marvel Frankenstein Monster previously, but the giant spider allows me to fudge. With the collapse of the Comics Code, monsters became usable again, and Marvel particularly went whole hog in the '70s. None of them could rival the Wolfman/Colan Dracula, however, which remains really one of the best versions…

Oh, the one by Mary W. Shelley.

Here's the gentler and rather more comical Briefer Frankenstein Monster. Again, this was a *radical* change from the earlier comics which were quite grisly. A very interesting shift in direction.

Dick Briefer's version(s) of Frankenstein is an interesting piece of comics history. The early books were quite grisly, with the gigantic Monster slaughtering innocents by the hundreds. Then the book did an abrupt turnaround, with Briefer still doing the book, and became a gentle Munsters sort of deal. There are happily numerous quite decent…

Man, now *that's* a poster.

Man, that poster deserved a better movie.

Unsurprisingly for the French poster, the giant octopus is more of a fashion statement.

No wonder I don't like movies as much anymore. Look at that! However, speaking of sea beasts, they *finally* dropped the trailer for "The Meg," (I guess they added the 'the' so that people wouldn't think it was about a girl). The first half is a little solemn for a flick starring Jason Statham,…