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Post by commond on Sept 30, 2024 6:45:57 GMT -5
I made a half-hearted effort last year to read some horror comics for Halloween and didn't end up finishing everything. This year, I'm trying to make more of an effort. I already started reading some horror comics in September to get a head start.
Right now, I'm reading some gory mangas from horror masters, Kazuo Umezu and Shinichi Koga, a questionable and messed up (but brilliant) manga from Suehiro Maruo, something a little more contemporary, and a Junji Ito serial. I've also begun reading the EC comics horror titles, and I'm hoping to finish Tales of the Zombie. I probably won't finish everything in October, but I'll do my best to read some horror every day.
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Post by driver1980 on Sept 30, 2024 7:28:20 GMT -5
I’m guessing you may have read Uzumaki. I found that quite eerie, I can’t look at spirals in the same way again.
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Post by DubipR on Sept 30, 2024 9:17:21 GMT -5
Anything from Junji Ito, as driver1980 mentioned, Uzumaki is a horror masterpiece. Also a good horror manga is PTSD Radio by Masaaki Nakayama. Its like a radio program come to life with horrific consequences. Something more modern, Ice Cream Man is a bit of creepiness. I highly recommend Bone Parish and Gideon Falls. Read a review and see if those work for you. Evan Dorkin's Beast of Burden is a must. Something more classic, Batton Lash's Supernatural Law. Its a charming horror comedy book about the lawyers that defend the monsters that go bump in the night. Have you ever read Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein? Its absolutely gorgeous. |
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Post by commond on Sept 30, 2024 9:53:18 GMT -5
I have read Uzumaki, and I'm reading PTSD Radio atm. The details surrounding the mangaka quitting it are even freakier than the stories.
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Post by Batflunkie on Sept 30, 2024 10:52:39 GMT -5
Speaking of manga, one that always disturbed me the most was Parasyte. It was most recently adapted into an anime and live action movie
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Post by berkley on Sept 30, 2024 10:58:32 GMT -5
Anything from Junji Ito, as driver1980 mentioned, Uzumaki is a horror masterpiece. Also a good horror manga is PTSD Radio by Masaaki Nakayama. Its like a radio program come to life with horrific consequences. Something more modern, Ice Cream Man is a bit of creepiness. I highly recommend Bone Parish and Gideon Falls. Read a review and see if those work for you. Evan Dorkin's Beast of Burden is a must. Something more classic, Batton Lash's Supernatural Law. Its a charming horror comedy book about the lawyers that defend the monsters that go bump in the night. Have you ever read Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein? Its absolutely gorgeous. I have a few comics lined up for this month that might be considered horror, though I have some non-horror things I want to get to as well, so I might not be able to do a horror comic every day. I might have a look for some of the ones mentioned in the thread, though. Gideon Falls is the only one in your post that I've read and most of the others I haven't heard of until now. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Sept 30, 2024 12:44:32 GMT -5
I'm hoping to get to the Gou Tanabe Lovecraft adaptations. I read the first volume of At the Mountains of Madness a few years ago when it was first released and have picked up the 2nd volume and another of his volumes since then, but haven't gotten to them yet. I might also try to read a handful of single issues of Charlton and Gold Key horror issues that I have that all have standalone short stories, but we'll see how the month plays out.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2024 13:51:28 GMT -5
Girls will be ghouls...this cover telegraphs eerie. It's the variant cover for the Misty 45 Years collection that I posted in the most recent Top Shelf thread...best of British horror.
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Post by DubipR on Sept 30, 2024 15:15:19 GMT -5
Anything from Junji Ito, as driver1980 mentioned, Uzumaki is a horror masterpiece. Also a good horror manga is PTSD Radio by Masaaki Nakayama. Its like a radio program come to life with horrific consequences. Something more modern, Ice Cream Man is a bit of creepiness. I highly recommend Bone Parish and Gideon Falls. Read a review and see if those work for you. Evan Dorkin's Beast of Burden is a must. Something more classic, Batton Lash's Supernatural Law. Its a charming horror comedy book about the lawyers that defend the monsters that go bump in the night. Have you ever read Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein? Its absolutely gorgeous. I have a few comics lined up for this month that might be considered horror, though I have some non-horror things I want to get to as well, so I might not be able to do a horror comic every day. I might have a look for some of the ones mentioned in the thread, though. Gideon Falls is the only one in your post that I've read and most of the others I haven't heard of until now. While I'm not the biggest horror fan in comics, there's some genuinely cool and creepy reads. I like more of the silly fun horror series, like the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror comics. They're super fun and definitely worth reading (and owning). I'll post my 31 Days of Halloween Comic Coolness later on today. Its all over the place. Classic Marvel stuff, manga, and all things in between. |
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Post by DubipR on Sept 30, 2024 18:19:00 GMT -5
31 Days of Halloween Comic Coolness
(taken from my FB page, from 2021)
1. Frankenstein Mobster (Image)
2. The King in Yellow (Self Made Hero)
3. Gideon Falls (Image)
4. PTSD Radio
5. Edgar Allan Poe's Spirit of the Dead (Dark Horse)
6. Marvel Presents the Haunt of Horror (Marvel)
7. Spooky (Harvey)
8. The Chuckling Whatsit (Fantagraphics)
9. Ferals (Avatar)
10. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (Claypool)
11. Tomb of Dracula (Marvel)
12. Uzumaki
13. Friday the 13th (DC/Wildstorm)
14. Vampirella (Harris- original run)
15. Bone Parish (Boom)
16. The Black Lamb (DC)
17. Beasts of Burden (Dark Horse)
18. Afterlife With Archie (Archie)
19. Ice Cream Man (Image)
20. Elvira's House of Mystery (DC)
21. The Nocturnals (Dark Horse/Self Published)
22. Casper the Friendly Ghost (Harvey)
23. Ghosts (DC)
24. Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror (Bongo)
25. Haunted Mansion (Slave Labor Graphics)
26. Supernatural Law (Exhibit A Press)
27. The New Deadwardians (DC/Vertigo)
28. Scary Godmother (Sirius)
29. Frankenstein w/Wrightson art (IDW)
30. The Marquis (Oni/Dark Horse)
31. The Spectre - Ostrander Run (DC)
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Post by berkley on Sept 30, 2024 18:41:16 GMT -5
Girls will be ghouls...this cover telegraphs eerie. It's the variant cover for the Misty 45 Years collection that I posted in the most recent Top Shelf thread...best of British horror.
I like this cover better than the other one so I just ordered it from their website. They didn't give an estimated delivery date so no idea if it'll arrive in time for my October Hallowe'en reading but I'm looking forward to it whenever it arrives.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2024 19:22:24 GMT -5
70's Rutland Halloween Parade comics for me, including the unofficial Marvel/DC crossover issues!
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Post by Calidore on Sept 30, 2024 19:40:45 GMT -5
I saw recently that Archie has a horror-themed line. How are those?
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Post by commond on Oct 1, 2024 9:24:14 GMT -5
I finished the first volume of Eko Eko Azarak by Shinichi Koga, which was a 70s manga that inspired Junji Ito (in fact, they had a copy of it on display at the Junji Ito exhibition I visited recently.) It's the story of a female transfer student (and witch), who arrives at a new school and starts using black magic to deal out chaotic and brutal justice on her teachers and classmates. Classic Japanese horror manga. Extremely gory. Koga seems to be trying to outdo himself with each chapter. I thoroughly enjoyed the first volume.
I'm also dabbling in some modern American horror books like Gideon Falls, Harrow County, Wytches, Beasts of Burden, Something is Killing the Children and The Nice House on the Lake. The art doesn't always match my vision for horror, but the stories are compelling so far.
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Post by berkley on Oct 1, 2024 10:54:04 GMT -5
I saw recently that Archie has a horror-themed line. How are those?
I think I've seen a few of them recommended here before but I found the one I tried, Sabrina, was only OK. Nothing particularly bad about it but I wasn't motivated to continue on with it or to try any of the other updated versions of the Archie characters. But even gong back to childhood I've never been a big Archie reader so it could be I was just the wrong audience.
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