Monster of the Day

OK, a storm or construction or something knocked out my Internet and landline phone last week, but I'm back up and running. Last we met, we were looking at monsters from the spring Tween-Fest in Dallas a few weeks ago. After the horrors of Mac and Me, we found due to short movies that…

We opened Tween Fest with the obscure but delightful Captain Sindbad, a non Harryhausen film that retains a ton of charm. However, all the beasties from that have been featured here before. Next was Dr. Giggles, which was quite a bit better than most of us were expecting. A win for Sandy, certainly. After…

Back to the world, and late for work of course. Because the actual latest Tween-Fest (the weekend before this), on Friday Chad R provided a copy of the surprisingly good cheapie Raw Force, with cannibal monks, (sort of) Kung Fu heroes, and martial arts zombies. It's seldom competent, but always entertaining Also, the latest…

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.