Monster of the Day

I'm a dope. I know, not exactly the shock statement of the decade. However, now that I see faces, the art is obviously Neal Adams, not Bernie Wrightson. I like the amount of detail here, suggesting a carefully arranged ritual.

Some of you may have noticed we were suffering domain name issues yesterday. Of course this immediately motivated me to pathetically bleat for help from Jabootu's resident superhero Carina Magyar, who quickly put things aright. Thanks for the thousandth time, C! House of Mystery was DC's main 'weird tales' comic. It started in 1951…

I saw Thor: Ragnarok last night, and it Rag-na-ROCKS! (Line trademarked) How many movies has Marvel/Disney made now? It's got to be closing in on 20, right? It's amazing they've kept the quality up as much as they have. They might be eclipsing even Pixar in that regard. Some might complain that it goes…

Although FMF very soon found its voracious audience and was selling in just about every drug store, convenience store and newsstand in the country, early on it looks a lot more fanzine-ish. We tend to think of FMF at the height of it's glory, symbolized by those gorgeous Basil Gogos covers. The first issue,…

I woke up to go to work and realized I had nothing set up. So...here's a FMF cover.

I watched Colossal over the weekend. More accurately, I watched some of it, and fast forwarded through the rest. It's the latest of a sort of mini-genre now, the Giant Monster Art House movie. Somehow they got Anne Hathaway (she's a thing, right?) and Jason Sudeikis to star in it. There wasn't a ton…

One last Highway to Hell shot. I figured Patric Bergin was nice enough to sit in the make-up chair while this was done, and so he deserved his due. As the Devil does.

A Hell Cop *and* a stop-animated Cerberus? Sign me up. This is one of those films that came out on VHS, never got a DVD release in all the years that followed, and then finally hit Blu Ray (from Kino!!) in 2016.

The box for this movie seemed omnipresent in video stores back in the day. I might even have rented it once, but I can't quite remember if I've watched it or not. I do remember seeing images of this scarified cop a LOT though.

Wow. A knife-wielding killer doll. That's fresh.