Wednesday, December 9, 2015
NEW CHILLING ARCHIVES COLLECTIONS: The Complete Voodoo Volume One / Ghosts and Girls
Two new CHILLING ARCHIVES OF HORROR COMICS releases from IDW / YOE BOOKS are in stores NOW! The long-awaited first entry in the COMPLETE VOODOO COLLECTION VOL. 1 hits stores today and features 200+ pages of tasteless Iger Shop terror and insanity! And already in stores is the wonderfully eerie collection of Fiction House supernatural tales, GHOSTS AND GIRLS! Both volumes are overflowing with stunning art (including fan fave Matt Baker), and today, THE HORRORS OF IT ALL has a double header post giving you a FREE sampling of tales from both collections! Click the links above for more info on both books, and don't forget that xmas is right around the corner-- IDW / YOE BOOKS make great horrorday presents, of course!!
I love stories of supernatural vengeance, and what better vengeance than to skin Nazi torturers alive? So the first one is top notch. The second is cool, too, but kinda odd. What's the nature of those ghosts, are they corporeal or incorporeal? It appears that the brunette is the only decent character (I mean, not evil), aside from the ghost hunter of course. This I like.
ReplyDeleteGhost Gallery reads like a 40s comic. The ghosts are nothing more than super villains with bizarre and inconsistent power sets (bullets pass through them but they can hold objects and they themselves can't pass through walls.)
ReplyDeleteI do like how about everybody in that story was sort of reversed; our hero had nothing to do with the story, except being there, the ghosts had every right for revenge, and everybody killed deserved it. That's a 40s super hero story in a nutshell!
I don't know why, stories like that should bug me for all the problems but they always end up being charming, and usually pretty fast paces. The splash is great, too.
Had the voodoo collection on pre-order forever, I'm all ready for my page after page of unnecessary circular panels :)
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ReplyDeleteI agree with Mr. Barnes about the slash on the second story. It's totally wonderful. The whole story is! I dig how we have eight pages of a highly convoluted, extraordinarily melodramatic ghost revenge scenario--plotting so thick that confusing, rapid-fire exposition crowds the figures out of the frames sometimes--even as the story still finds time for a languid, four-panel car crash. I mean, that's nearly enough for an animated flip-book! "Well here comes my crash." "Well, best prepare to jump now." "Man, jumping's hard work. Better rest." "Wow, look at my car flying off the cliff!" I mean, yeah, I get it! This is a heart-stopping turn of events for our good guy. They blew up Sonny Crockett's Ferrari in slo-mo, too.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to pick up the new hardbacks!
It isn't much of a complaint, but this story has almost too many characters to keep up with, almost like a soap opera (although I had a headache before reading it, so for me it might have just SEEMED like a lot of characters to keep up with).
ReplyDeleteThe femme fatale on the cover is a blend of horror and beauty, the type of girl your folks warn you about. The cover ghoul made me think of Fantomah since both have an unforgettable face, one you can't forget easily.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone picked up either book, drop us a line and let us know what you think! Thanks for the comments!
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