tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post2552925373145680041..comments2024-03-27T05:54:38.797-07:00Comments on <i>bare</i>•bones e-zine: The Warren Report Issue 98: October 1978John Scolerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14082147756474762000noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-77420092186734574242022-11-23T17:44:40.222-08:002022-11-23T17:44:40.222-08:00Even though it's a drawing not a photo, Vampir...Even though it's a drawing not a photo, Vampirella still seems to be "played" by Barbara Leigh, because I guess they're still promoting that film version that unfortunately didn't happen. <br />I haven't looked at the cover galleries lately, so I don't know how much longer that continued.Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09603892208775996594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-67354701077470216142022-11-21T09:12:43.978-08:002022-11-21T09:12:43.978-08:00This was one of the earliest issues of Creepy I ev...This was one of the earliest issues of Creepy I ever owned. Really up there for one of the most odd covers we've had so far. Almost Shangri-La was my favorite story of the issue and a really strong one overall until that final panel, featuring a twist that was totally unnecessary. For some reason several panels of The Thing in the Haunted Forest look more like Alex Nino's work than Abel Laxamana's to me. I wonder if he got some help on the story. Night Eyes was a fine story; even though its been years since I've read this story I instantly recalled the end twist of his fiancé dumping him for someone else. The remaining stories in this issue were iffy at best for me. Killer Claw and Fair Prey in particular were too similar in nature for me and I'd have preferred more variety.<br /><br />Very surprising to have an issue of Eerie from this era with no Rook story. Makes me quite happy. My understanding is that the Fallen Angel stories were all originally published overseas and are simply the millionth example of a new story being written over them. Aside from an extremely lame ending to the middle story, I actually liked them quite a bit, but then a big factor of that is me really liking Duranona's artwork. Mac Tavish may clearly steal the titular character and appearance of Spider Andromeda from Han and Chewie from Star Wars, but this time I felt the plot was far more reminiscent of Dune, especially the Polyprismite stuff which is clearly ripping off spice. The Shining Sea with its dolphin headed people provides one of the most ridiculous looking images we've had in Eerie to date.<br /><br />I've been dreading this issue of Vampi as the full length Vampi story format is a big turn off, but for most of the way I didn't mind the story. The pacing was pretty good and the story didn't suffer the extreme over-complication that the previous two all Vampi issues, both written by Gerry Boudreau instead of Bill Dubay had. Unfortunately things completely fall apart at the end as Vampi acts like quite the idiot jumping into things on her own, then Adam simply has to quote lines from the Bible to defeat them. I too was struck throughout several parts of this story as seeing artwork that didn't really look like Gonzalo Mayo's work. Alfredo Alcala was my guess as well. Other things I didn't particularly like was Pantha simply disappearing and Conrad suspecting Vampi of the murders after all this time they've been friends. The biggest disappointment for an issue like this for me is that Vampi simply doesn't work filling out the entire issue. The backup anthology stories always outdo the Vampi stories and this time we don't have any of them. On the bright side, I'm pretty sure this is the last time we get an entire issue dedicated only to Vampirella, at least for non-reprint issues.Quiddity99https://www.blogger.com/profile/17809157926893454731noreply@blogger.com