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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2014 22:34:15 GMT -5
</div> This is the most metal thing I have ever seen. Yeah, one of the best covers of the 80's indy craze in my opinion. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2014 22:43:47 GMT -5
I would pay handsomely for a shirt and/or backpatch of that cover.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2014 22:50:46 GMT -5
Lots of great choices for #1 already. Mine is Deadworld vol. 1 (particularly the earlier stuff written by Stuart Kerr and illustrated by Vince Locke)  I see it as the predecessor to The Walking Dead in several ways. It's not the first zombie comic, of course. As far as I can tell it's the first ongoing serialization of a small group of survivors of a zombie apocalypse though. There are some major differences in Deadworld, some zombies talk, they're a result of voodoo devil worship and not a virus, and there's monsters like in Resident Evil. The series also kind of falls apart as soon as the creative team starts switching up (eventually finding a groove, but not for a while) but focusing on the early stuff featuring Vince Locke as illustrator, it is a fantastic start to a promising survival horror serial. The main cast is made up of a group of kids who narrowly escaped the initial breakout/destruction in a school bus and had lost everything they know and love, and are alone without an adult to guide them. Great intro, great dialogue, and FANTASTIC art. I was an instant Locke fan.  Two more examples, huge images dcomixologyssl.sslcs.cdngc.net/k/30440/151120/fc9d764e1ba7ae22788a517401f9687f.jpg?h=235c56cc7ea2502ee215c04e20e4ab81&width=6404.bp.blogspot.com/-mmZp4htzc1o/UwwwrpseUoI/AAAAAAAAQQg/mO4bYkaAEwI/s1600/30.jpgIt's fast and loose inking, with a little hint of manga cartooning, but also with incredible lifelike detail here and there, like an old Warren mag. And some humor snuck into the grim and gory illustration. A zombie making a goofy face for example. I also found it shocking when a main character was lost very early on, setting a precedent of major characters being lost as new ones were introduced, and it wasn't long until the main cast was nearly completely replaced. |
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Post by shaxper on Oct 30, 2014 7:55:33 GMT -5
DUBIPR'S #1FAUST #1-12 Written by David Quinn Drawn by Tim Vigil Published by Northstar Press & Rebel Studios (1989 to 2001) The reason I chose Faust 1 to 12 as my first choice is because this is perhaps one of the finest post-modern horror comics put out. The story's a bit convoluted but it packed a such a wallop in terms the horrors within man, the spirit and journey into our deepest thoughts and just bats**t insanity of bloodshed, violence and sex that I ever encountered. David Quinn's script of a mental patient having an affair with his nurse. Demons, gross monsters of all perversions, and naked bodies that would rival any EC comic. The real draw of the book is the amazing artwork by Tim Vigil. Vigil's wonderful attention to detail is on par with Bernie Wrightson's work. It's just so lush and nothing gets marred as Vigil draws the bloodshed and craziness.   While it took close to 12 years for the last 3 issues (13 to 15 came out after our requirements), the series as a whole is so chock full of demons, gore, blood, eyeballs, body parts, naked body parts....it's creepy but so fascinating to see the immense detail Vigil laid out there. One of my best buds is pretty much the biggest Tim Vigil fan on the planet, has a ton of original commissioned artwork, and even meets up with Vigil semi-regularly. He'll be thrilled to see this here. |
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Post by DubipR on Oct 30, 2014 8:27:11 GMT -5
DUBIPR'S #1FAUST #1-12Written by David Quinn Drawn by Tim Vigil Published by Northstar Press & Rebel Studios (1989 to 2001)
One of my best buds is pretty much the biggest Tim Vigil fan on the planet, has a ton of original commissioned artwork, and even meets up with Vigil semi-regularly. He'll be thrilled to see this here. I'm a big fan of Vigil's work as well, not dyed in the wool, but a fan of his work. I have a couple of original pieces of artwork from him too...such a nice guy too |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 30, 2014 10:36:35 GMT -5
Lots of great choices for #1 already. Mine is Deadworld vol. 1 (particularly the earlier stuff written by Stuart Kerr and illustrated by Vince Locke) I see it as the predecessor to The Walking Dead in several ways. It's not the first zombie comic, of course. As far as I can tell it's the first ongoing serialization of a small group of survivors of a zombie apocalypse though. There are some major differences in Deadworld, some zombies talk, they're a result of voodoo devil worship and not a virus, and there's monsters like in Resident Evil. The series also kind of falls apart as soon as the creative team starts switching up (eventually finding a groove, but not for a while) but focusing on the early stuff featuring Vince Locke as illustrator, it is a fantastic start to a promising survival horror serial. The main cast is made up of a group of kids who narrowly escaped the initial breakout/destruction in a school bus and had lost everything they know and love, and are alone without an adult to guide them. Great intro, great dialogue, and FANTASTIC art. I was an instant Locke fan. Two more examples, huge images dcomixologyssl.sslcs.cdngc.net/k/30440/151120/fc9d764e1ba7ae22788a517401f9687f.jpg?h=235c56cc7ea2502ee215c04e20e4ab81&width=6404.bp.blogspot.com/-mmZp4htzc1o/UwwwrpseUoI/AAAAAAAAQQg/mO4bYkaAEwI/s1600/30.jpgIt's fast and loose inking, with a little hint of manga cartooning, but also with incredible lifelike detail here and there, like an old Warren mag. And some humor snuck into the grim and gory illustration. A zombie making a goofy face for example. I also found it shocking when a main character was lost very early on, setting a precedent of major characters being lost as new ones were introduced, and it wasn't long until the main cast was nearly completely replaced. This sounds like a book for me, how hard is this to track down? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 11:13:43 GMT -5
I think IDW recently did a collection of the Deadworld stuff as well as new material for it.
Vigil's stuff is insanely detailed. We had a Faust original sketch in the charity auction at Champion City earlier this month, and there were hints he might be at Gem City this spring, though nothing is confirmed just yet. It was the piece that brought in the most money for the auction.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 15:00:14 GMT -5
This sounds like a book for me, how hard is this to track down? Not hard at all. I actually got all of volumes one and two along with a ton of extras like complete minis and variant covers and oneshots and appearances in anthologies for like $8 shipped. That was a stroke of luck though. If you get on eBay you can probably easily track it down for about $1.25 per issue. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 30, 2014 22:47:52 GMT -5
Hoosier X's #1: "Midnight Snack!"
Writer: Al Feldstein
Artist: Johnny Craig
Tales from the Crypt #24
1951
Explanation: This is my favorite EC horror story.
It starts out very mundane. I mean, we don't have a guy who's mad at his wife and starts planning revenge because she spends his money on hats and so he can't indulge his hobby - model trains!
No, it's just a guy reading a book titled "Horror Tales" at midnight.
He realizes how late it is and he thinks maybe it's time to go to bed. But he's so hungry. Maybe a little snack ...
And then he's out on the street but he doesn't remember how he got there. But he's still hungry so he finds a restaurant that's still open and he looks at the menu ... but the smell of cooked meat wafting over from the grill ... it makes him nauseous and he stumbles out into the street. And he blacks out again and ends up in a graveyard! And he starts digging up a grave because he now he understands his hunger ... Now he knows what he wants. But there's a crowd of people ... with torches ... yelling at him and chasing him as he carries his FOOD over his shoulders and runs! They don't understand!
Then he wakes up, back in his chair, his book of horror tales at his side. Unfortunately there's still one more page to go, plenty of time for one more unpleasant twist ...
It probably sounds like business as usual for EC Comics, but this one has always stood out for me. Partly, it's the Johnny Craig art. For a horror comic, it's kind of mundane. The "hero" looks like he could be the lead in a romance comic. I think this contrast, as it move from the ordinary to the horrible, is very effective. Consider this story if it had been drawn by Graham Ingels. There would be no subtlety and no shock as it moved into horror.
Another think that helps this story is the great narrative flow. There are very few captions. Most of the transitions are dialogue by the "hero." He frequently blacks out and then explains what's going on and what he's doing and talks through his confusion. "A cemetery! How did I get here? ... How did I get this shovel?"
When I read this story, it's not just something horrible that's happening ... it's something horrible that's happening to ME! I have no trouble sliding into this guy's shoes and getting sick from the smell of cooked meat and tackling a fresh grave for my food and running from the angry mob with a corpse over my shoulders.
And waking up is such a relief ... but only for three or four panels!
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Post by shaxper on Oct 31, 2014 4:45:20 GMT -5
When I read this story, it's not just something horrible that's happening ... it's something horrible that's happening to ME! I have no trouble sliding into this guy's shoes and getting sick from the smell of cooked meat and tackling a fresh grave for my food and running from the angry mob with a corpse over my shoulders. Wow. And I love that cover! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 12:30:43 GMT -5
1. "Monster of Dread End"Creative team: John Stanley (writer) & Ed Robbins (artist) From: Ghost Stories #1 (Dell) Publication year: 1962 Keeping to my theme of (1) strips imprinted in my brain from well before adolescence that (2) I invoked in somewhat comparable threads back in the days of yore on CBR ... Choosing this one as the best example of a horror comic ever is sort of like citing the 1927 Yankees as best baseball team; it's a pretty popular choice, & for good reason. Back in the 15-year-or-so period between the Comics Code's quashing of EC's & other companies' horror titles & the return (albeit in decidedly muted form, for the most part) of "mystery" titles from DC & Marvel in the late '60s as the Bronze Age was dawning (not that ACG & a few others didn't keep plugging away in the vineyards during the intervening period, of course), Dell twice took advantage of the fact that its wholesome image meant it didn't feel compelled to subject itself to the Code & its restrictions on horror & the like. One result was Tales from the Tomb, a one-shot, also written by Stanley, which of course everyone should own. If I'd encountered it as a kid, rather than via eBay in my late 40s, it no doubt would have made my list. The other was Ghost Stories, which came out about the same time as Tales, & which of course I didn't encounter until it showed up as pretty much the entirety of the 37-issue series' first reprint edition, #21, in the summer of '68, when I was 8. Fittingly, "Dread End" leads the issue off, & even more fittingly it's just plain suffused with ... well ... dread. There's no better word for it. The first 4 pages --     ... &, y'know, that's as much of the story as I'm going to post, on the off chance that someone here isn't familiar with it. Suffice it to say that the remaining 6 pages more than live up to that deliciously foreboding scene-setting. The entire tale is easily found on-line. If you haven't read it before, do so. If you have, read it again. It's Halloween, man!
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Post by hondobrode on Nov 1, 2014 21:23:16 GMT -5
So far my postings have mostly been from memory. This last one would definitely be in good company with this week's postings, however, I can't find the particular issues, hence, the exact stories to present. What I will do instead, is present and recommend the title and some notes. If you ever come across these, they're highly priced and exceptional.  Yes, that rascally Stephen Bissette at it again.  There's a reason DC put him on Swamp Thing.  Taboo was published both by Bissette's own SpiderBaby Grafix with Kitchen Sink publishing the last 2 issues.  Each issue is at least 100 pages long and has stories with the cream of the crop talent including :  Alan Moore, Bill Wray, Charles Burns, Keith Giffen, Chester Brown, Eddie Campbell, Robert Loren Fleming, Steve Bissette, Bernie Mireault, Cam Kennedy, Charles Vess, Clive Barker, Mike Hoffman, S. Clay Wilson, Tom Sniegoski, John Totleben, Michael Zulli, Paul Chadwick, Richard Sala, Rick Veitch, D'Israeli, Jean-Marc Lofficer, Neil Gaiman, Spain Rodriguez, Alexandro Jodorowsky, Dave Sim, Elaine Lee, Moebius, Randy Lofficer, Phil Hester, Melinda Gebbie, Mark Nelson, Jeff Jones, Matt Howarth, Phil Elliott, Eric Vincent, Kenneth Smith, Paul Grist, Al Columbia, Greg Capullo, P. Craig Russell, Alec Stevens, David Lloyd, Timothy Truman, Tony Salmons and more.  It won 2 Eisners in 1993 for Best Serialized Story "From Hell" by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell in "Taboo" (SpiderBaby Graphix/Tundra) and Best Anthology "Taboo".  Good luck and good hunting !   |
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Post by shaxper on Nov 2, 2014 9:01:53 GMT -5
Stephen Bissette once again!
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Post by coke & comics on Nov 11, 2014 17:31:13 GMT -5
Late to the party but my #1 was the only obvious one for me. If a single panel could capture how one feels after learning your husband was really your dead uncle reincarnated as a swarm of bugs, this comic has it. Just the right combination of necrophilia, incest, and bestiality to set your skin on edge. And that's just the beginning of an arc that will take us on a Dante-esque journey through a heaven and hell populated by DC characters, and established Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run as one of the greatest comics of all time.
Down Among the Dead Men by Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, and Jon Totleben, from Saga of the Swamp Thing.
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Post by badwolf on Nov 21, 2014 17:40:50 GMT -5
bronzeagebrian's #1: "Cottonmouth"Writer/Artist: Stephen Bissette From: Gore Shriek #1 Publisher/Year: Fantaco, 1986 This short story by S. Bissette is my #1 pick only because it's the scariest one I've ever read. I've had nightmares about this one, no doubt about it. That's probably because I was around 12 years old when it came out and a friend showed me an issue of Gore Shriek #1. I flipped through the comic quickly, uninterested in most of the shock-horror stories within. But this little three-page story at the back of the book somehow caught my interest. Ohhh I read this somewhere else. In Taboo, I think. Great one! |
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