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Post by dem bones on Jan 17, 2015 18:10:54 GMT
Vampire Tales: Volume 2 (Marvel, 2011) Pablo Marcos Vampire Tales #4 Morbius, The Living Vampire: Lighthouse Of The Possessed Writer: Don McGregor/ Artist: Tom SuttonSomewhere Waits The Vampire Writer: Uncredited/ Artist: Paul ReimanA Vampire's Home Is His Castle Writer: Doug Moench/ Artist: LombardiaThe Vampire's Coffin Writer: Uncredited/ Artist: Tony DiPretaThe Drifting Snow Writer: Tony Isabella/ Artist: Estenan MarotoLilith: The First Vampire Writer: Tony Isabella/ Artist: Ernie ChanFeatures: Chris Clairmont - Everything You Wanted To Know About Vampires; Part 4 Gerry Conway - Notes On A Piece I Don't Want To Write Don McGregor - Hellhouse Is Dying Vampire Tales #5 The Vampire Viscount Of France Writer: Doug Moench/ Artist: Win MortimerMorbius, The Living Vampire: Blood Tide Writer: Don McGregor/ Artists: Rich Buckler & Ernie ChanThe Living Dead Writer: Roy Thomas/ Artists: Alan Kupperberg & Dick GiordanoMorbius, The Living Vampire: The Way it Began Writer: Don McGregor/ Artists: Gil Kane & Frank GiacoiaThe Vampire Wants Blood Writer: Doug Moench/ Artist: Val MayerikFeatures: Donald F. Glut - Count Yorga - Vampire Of The Year Carla Joseph - Devil's Den (Reviews) Vampire Tales #6 Lilith - Daughter of Dracula Writers: Roy Thomas & Steve Gerber/ Artists: Bob Brown & Tom PalmerA Novel Way To Die Writer: Chris Claremont/ Artist: Pablo MarcosAngie`s Soul Writer: Chris Claremont/ Artist: BalcellsBlood Death Writer: Doug Moench/ Artist: Alfredo AlcalaThe Colour Of Crimson Blood Writer: Doug Moench/ Artist: Vicente AlcazarFeatures: Gerry Bourdreau - Dark Shadows Carla Joseph - Devil's Den (Reviews) Vampire Tales #7 Morbius, The Living Vampire: Where Is Gallows Bend? Writer: Don McGregor/ Artist: Tom SuttonSip The Sweet Poison Writer: Doug Moench/ Artist: Billy GrahamBats Writer: Doug Moench/ Artists Paul Gulacy & Duffy VohlandAgents Of The Road Writer: Doug Moench/ Artist: Howard ChaykinFeature Carla Joseph - Devil's Den (Reviews) Pablo Marcos Don't usually do horror comics, graphic novels & Co., not through any dislike of the genre, more as an act of self-preservation - I already have enough "literary" addictions to contend with, don't need any more. But saw this in the library and couldn't resist, mainly because it includes killer adaptations of Robert Bloch's The Living Dead (aka Underground) and August Derleth's The Drifting Snow. The non-fiction content is a bonus: it seems that Chris Clairmont reworked mad genius Montague Summers' The Vampire: His Kith & Kin as a six-part series, and here we get the final entries. Carla Joseph's thumbnail book reviews had me scribbling down a couple of titles: she even recommends Robert E. Lory's Horrorscope #1: The Green Flames Of Aries, albeit without telling us anything whatsoever about it. It's just a shame they don't reproduce a sample fang mail column.
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Post by andydecker on Jan 18, 2015 12:35:08 GMT
These are nice. I missed the collection, but have most of the originals. Does this have the original format? They used to have this magazine size like 2000AD. Sometimes these modern reprints are a bit edited - in the "daring" original they sometimes had a few tiny bits of nudity. The seventies - you have to love them.
I am not a fan of the Morbius character - he was created as a Spider-Man foe, and here he suddenly has to work as an more or less adult character. Which doesn't really works. Combine this with McGregors rambling story and horrendously overwritten prose, and this is not a very good Story. But the art is great.
Lilith is an embarrassing Vampirella rip-off, but the storys are fun in a kind of train-wreck style.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 18, 2015 16:31:17 GMT
Does this have the original format? Never having seen an original of the comic I can't be certain, but I'm guessing yes as it includes full tables of contents (which is how I know there was a readers mail department) and 'coming next issue' and what have you. Despite the 'explicit content' warning on the back cover, can't say I noticed anything to get excited about. Would agree that some scripts are a bit so-so, but the artwork is brilliant throughout.
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Post by andydecker on Jan 18, 2015 18:36:56 GMT
The original used to be as large as the Playboy or comparable magazines. For instance Dark Horse unfortunatly shrunk their reprint of Savage Sword of Conan and edited the textpieces and a lot of the smaller stories out. So this seems to be a more interesting edition.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 18, 2015 18:51:22 GMT
The original used to be as large as the Playboy or comparable magazines. In that case, these have been shrunk though the illustrations haven't suffered the dreaded scrunching and I had no difficulty with the text. I think the intention is a 'best of' each issue, whereas I'm sure most of us would prefer a full reprint, ads and all. But I would still like to read vol 1!
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