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scans_dailyIt's the holiday season, and as Charles Dickens has taught us, that means it's time for ghost stories!
Back in the Seventies, DC had a bunch of horror anthology titles. "Ghosts" was notable for being almost entirely ghost stories, all supossedly true. Even as a teen, I knew this was utter bull, but it did have some nice chillers. And the name is useful for an anthology title.
So to keep the trademark, there's now a Vertigo one-shot. The pretense of these being true stories is dropped, but they are mostly about ghosts.
Since the new issue limit of four pages wouldn't let me really explain any given story, and besides, much of the fun of ghost stories is discovering the twist yourself, I'm just posting four representative* pages with minimum context.
* The anthology is for mature readers, but not all the stories have NSFW content, and I have not used any NSFW pages.
"The Night After I Took the Data Entry Job I Was Visited By My Own Ghost" by Al Ewing and Rufus Dayglo
"Wallflower" by Cecil Castellucci and Amy Reeder
"The Boy and the Old Man" by Joe Kubert. This one needs a little more context. It's the last story Mr. Kubert wrote and drew before his death, but he hadn't gotten beyond loose pencils. So DC is running it with only legible lettering added.)
"The Dark Lady" by Gilbert Hernandez
and there's five other stories!
I'll have a slightly more spoilery review up on my new blog http://www.skjam.com in a day or two.
Your thoughts and comments?
Pleasant...dreams,
SKJAM!
Back in the Seventies, DC had a bunch of horror anthology titles. "Ghosts" was notable for being almost entirely ghost stories, all supossedly true. Even as a teen, I knew this was utter bull, but it did have some nice chillers. And the name is useful for an anthology title.
So to keep the trademark, there's now a Vertigo one-shot. The pretense of these being true stories is dropped, but they are mostly about ghosts.
Since the new issue limit of four pages wouldn't let me really explain any given story, and besides, much of the fun of ghost stories is discovering the twist yourself, I'm just posting four representative* pages with minimum context.
* The anthology is for mature readers, but not all the stories have NSFW content, and I have not used any NSFW pages.
"The Night After I Took the Data Entry Job I Was Visited By My Own Ghost" by Al Ewing and Rufus Dayglo
"Wallflower" by Cecil Castellucci and Amy Reeder
"The Boy and the Old Man" by Joe Kubert. This one needs a little more context. It's the last story Mr. Kubert wrote and drew before his death, but he hadn't gotten beyond loose pencils. So DC is running it with only legible lettering added.)
"The Dark Lady" by Gilbert Hernandez
and there's five other stories!
I'll have a slightly more spoilery review up on my new blog http://www.skjam.com in a day or two.
Your thoughts and comments?
Pleasant...dreams,
SKJAM!
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Date: 2012-12-15 05:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-15 12:32 pm (UTC)If you meant the story's plot, without being too spoilery, it's about a married couple who become ghosts. There is no harvesting of children's fluids.
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Date: 2012-12-15 06:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-15 09:55 am (UTC)