From the September 1953 issue of Horrific #7
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ANOTHER HEADS UP: I know some of you are excited about the Bernie Wrightson / Flash Forward Day I had planned this week, but due to a schedule / time conflict I’ve moved it to next week now. It will be early in the week though, I promise!
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Vintage AD (zat thing creepy or what?)
This one really takes its time not surprising us, doesn't it? And why is everybody sweating so much? Still, the art is wonderful, and some of the inexplicably employed montages are great. Very spooky. Gotta love Rudy!
ReplyDeleteWow, seven whole pages to establish what we saw in the opening splash. Where's the twist?
ReplyDeleteI'm now thoroughly convinced this guy was a genius, a deranged genius, but what other kind really counts in horror?.
ReplyDeleteI DONT THINK MOST PRE CODE NEEDS A TWIST, I LIKED THIS ONE ALOT BECAUSE IT WAS JUST FUN AND WEIRD AND THE ARTWORK WAS AS USUAL AWESOME. PALAIS IS THE MAN!!
ReplyDeleteI'm with Caps. I mean, yeah, it's a little foolish to present the expected ending with such a flourish: "Ta-dah! It's what we told you, comics reader, to suspect!" But I still thought the story was pretty rich.
ReplyDeleteAssuming Herr Botz's "job" is to shrink women into dolls (and he certainly performs no other--none of the women who visit his shop seem to have gotten any thinner), the last panel on page six is a pretty explicit clue as to what his "hobby" might be.
If I have a qualm about the utter obviousness of the plot here, it's that I can't understand why the town didn't figure all this out for themselves eighteen girls ago. Twenty now. Sort of paints Dresdenites as pretty clueless. Especially compared with one hundred percent of online comics readers.
Deelish! That splash panel maketh my heart be still!
ReplyDeleteYep, Mr. Palais really, really worked the sweat button on his characters! Long ago, some reviewer pointed out why all that sweat makes Palais's stuff eerie: normal people don't sweat like that! (And don't forget tears and spittle!)
ReplyDeleteI'll have today's Friday the 13th Double Header post up by noon. Don't go away!
ReplyDeletethe ad was creeper than the story
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