Goosebumps comic coming from IDW

[cyberghostface]

 








More info here.

Comments

It'd be kinda funny

[lego_joker]

to see what restrictions IDW will put on this. All-gore-all-sex-all-the-time horror comics are a dime a dozen, especially outside the Big Two; but Scholastic-esque hurdles could force creators to be genuinely... creative.

I just hope Slappy and/or the Horrorland guys doesn't gobble up all the spotlight *again*...

Re: It'd be kinda funny

[cyberghostface]

I just wish they'd be 'scary' like the books and TV show were. The movie really dropped the ball and the cartoonish art and the cuddly pink sidekick here doesn't bode well in that area.

Re: It'd be kinda funny

[informationgeek]

I dunno about the TV show. Watching it recently, it's really not aged well and is pretty hokey instead of scary (Are You Afraid of the Dark has similar problems, but aged better in some areas).

Re: It'd be kinda funny

[cyberghostface]

What I mean is they'd try to be scary for kids. The movie just played it for laughs for the most part.

[malitia]

Will this be less overwritten than his latest comic (Man-Thing)? As that had a serious case of tell don't show.

[cyberghostface]

Stine's not writing this.

[malitia]

That might help.

[cyberghostface]

The series was never high art to begin with.

[malitia]

I know. I watched the TV series as a kid (the books weren't available but syndicated satellite television knows no borders). I just hope it does better job at being sequential art than SwampMan-Thing did.

Edit reason: Damn it, brainfart.

[lissa_quon]

Goddamn I'm 30 years old but my reaction that cover was "aw shit its Slappy."

I mean - the comic may or may not be good - but ya know - Slappy - shit man.