Monster of the Day

It's nearly October, and time to start planning your Halloween viewing. I like to start old school. And you don't get much better than this. If you haven't seen it, or seen it in a while, check it out again, it's pretty great.

Or when making movies, apparently. Well, the first watch party went pretty well. I had stumbled across a movie, last minute, a Korean kaiju film I'd never heard of. So I switched the movie to that. It was a good decision. By nature, you don't want a super plot-heavy movie while doing a watch…

Marvel, even pre-Internet, wisely headed off getting a ton of letters from pedants like me yelling, "He's not Frankenstein!!" We recently learned, though, that all the 'Monster's' [named by a patriarchal cisnorm scientist, of course] parts were from the corpses of women of color and that thus [insert preferred pronoun] is better than all…

  I know we've talked about these before, but....  So Dell, during that period when the Adam West Batman show was super-hot, decided (I can see the guy pitching this: "You know who the original Batman was? Dracula!") to try to turn the classic monsters into superhero characters. And if the comic were really…

So Dick Briefer's Frankenstein went from this... to this..... Both versions are good, actually. The former is pulpy and often surprisingly gruesome. The latter is very much a gentle kid's comic, closer in tone to The Munsters than The Addams Family. Still, a truly weird shift in tones.

I know we've done Dick Briefer's Frankenstein comics before. But hey, we've been doing Frankenstein and his creations lately, and Halloween is closer than you think. They are pretty great. Go to your library and order in some volumes of his work. When the comic originally came out (pre-code, obviously) it was truly horrific.…

OK, here's Army of Frankensteins, completely different from Frankenstein's Army. Different war, even. Mondays, that's the REAL monster. Blech.

I'm not sure i like this new, grittier take on Spy vs Spy. Friday!! Wheee!! Have a great weekend, everyone, and watch something stupid.

  Looks like this fellow spent a lot of time of the make-up chair, since they had to do his whole body rather than have him wearing a costume. Anyway, I think that's the last of Frankenstein's Army, but it's been a good run.

Obviously Frankenstein started running out of ideas, since he started ripping off old Scooby Doo villains.