Monday, March 10, 2014
Her Lips Dripped Blood
What the heck, let's extend our Week of Werewolves for one more post with this delicious journey into fur-- errr, the Sept '53 issue of Journey into Fear #15, I mean! You can also find this great story reprinted in HAUNTED HORROR #2! I get emails all the time from people saying they still can't find the early HH issues, the first three (for those that need reminding) can also be found in our HAUNTED HORROR collected hardcover as well, click HERE! Hope everyone enjoyed the themed subject matter, we'll do another week of something gruesome next month (or maybe sci-fi or mad scientists as some of you suggested) --I'll start scouring the Karswell archives!
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ReplyDeleteExcellent! And with a totally cool ink job, too. This guy has a lot of different brush sizes to choose from--tiny skinny ones on panel two, page two; huge fat ones on panel five, page four. The effect is far more charming and integrated here than I usually think it is. My favorite panels are at the bottom of page eight where the story calmly goofs on the Red Riding Hood tropes introduced earlier. That "Kill... kill!" panel looks delightfully like a Halloween party werewolf. Hot stuff!
ReplyDeleteLong live werewolf week!
Why the heck would a werewolf get a burial on sanctified ground, let alone a headstone to mark his grave? That's the sort of situation where you put the body in a sack, dig a shallow hole at the crossroads, and try to move on with your post-monster-attack life.
ReplyDeleteIn the first page top panel the girl could have said
ReplyDelete"Gosh honey, lay off the sauce! One drink too many and you turn into an animal."
Either I'm not pushing the right buttons -- which is strange because I'm a computer programmer! -- but my comments keep getting eaten, potentially by a werewolf.
ReplyDeleteLet's try to recreate the comment. Artist has a bit of Al Feldstein in him, just a version of Al that was hit by a log and lost all concept of human anatomy! I've tried to recreate the left hand on the splash in my chair and my have dislocated a shoulder ...
I enjoy the strange, troll-like werewolf. Obviously, the artist couldn't quite figure out if he wanted a human werewolf (wolf man) or wolf werewolf, and combined them for hilarious results. Of course, conveniently, in the last page, she's all human werewolf.
Your comment is there, in fact you were the first person to comment, Brian! Sometimes it takes a while for comments to publish-- I'm not sure why this is. And sometimes I find legit comments in my spam folders so I move them to the inbox and publish then later than usual. This is kind of a rare occurance though.
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the comments so far, loold like Werewolf Week was a howling success!
Cheswick Stoddard is right. One of the favorite clichés in these stories is the character kept out of hallowed ground.
ReplyDeleteI don't know whether the story was just being inconsistent, but one interesting thing is how Bill keeps getting after Clara one moment, then defending her to people like the police the next moment. He doesn't like her, but he's not about to let that influence him if he thinks she didn't do the killings, I think that's it.
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