Monday, July 13, 2020
The Storm
There's no need for a boarding pass when you enter today's gate (of Hell), as Vic Carrabotta delivers an aircraft cabin full of awesome creeps (and a really hot number in the cockpit) in this wonderfully atmospheric tale of a crazed killer on the run. From the July 1952 issue of Strange Tales #8.
Now that's just pure fun. Luckily Heavy Metal made some changes so it wasn't too obvious (kidding, but it reminded me of that story.)
ReplyDeleteThe journey has an obvious destination and it's just fun to see a truly evil guy get his comeuppance slowly and surly, and in an inevitable way that gathers steam as it rolls down the hill.
Every zombie is awesome. The muscled zombie hand breaking through the cabin door made me chuckle. A great cartoonish devil at the end, and page 4 should be framed on a wall.
My favorite panel is page 4, panel 6, love the way it's staged, but also page 3, panel 6 which is a fun reveal.
Yet one more reason I won't take airplane trips.
ReplyDeletePage 2 bottom right, was the guy behind the desk The Midnight Professor or Cain before he became a narrator of his own comic? A mystery for the ages, I guess.
The only mystery is who was the live human Miko strangled to get the ticket to board the plane in that convenient, cobwebby airport. Was he another Lucifer's special trip passenger? Satan won't be pleased that Miko offed him, then, will he?
ReplyDeleteWoof, you're right about the atmosphere here. This decrepit dead-end town, this foggy storm, this cobwebby public conveyance--all of the oppressive mood really knocks this simple story out of the park. To me it feels like a @#$%ing omen, though, since I'll probably have to fly back home through Miami sometime in the coming weeks. Catching a doomed plane of corpses, destination hell, is just about how my own concentric anxiety circles radiate right now. Think of page four, panel five as a portrait of the commenter. Maybe it'll age and I won't.
ReplyDeleteThe writer spent a little extra time coming up with names. For a hit man, "Miko Arley" sounds like an exotic version of one of those Damon Runyon type names.
ReplyDeleteHahahahaha, Mr C whips up yet another one to add to my book of favorite comments.
ReplyDeleteThanks again to everyone hanging in there with us through all this pandemic madness, but in our next post we will most definitely be STEPPING OUT ON THE TOWN! See ya in a few...
Fun epilogue: I flew Wednesday, and we almost couldn't land on account of inclement weather, tornadoes. As we circled the airport, I flashed back to this comic.
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