tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post421005965999238596..comments2024-03-27T05:54:38.797-07:00Comments on <i>bare</i>•bones e-zine: The Warren Report Issue 75: June 1976John Scolerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14082147756474762000noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-87344306688557801112022-01-04T13:52:23.524-08:002022-01-04T13:52:23.524-08:00What is your blog?What is your blog?Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-84347968422844753412022-01-03T08:05:09.888-08:002022-01-03T08:05:09.888-08:00Creepy #80 is one of the earliest Warren magazines...Creepy #80 is one of the earliest Warren magazines I ever read so I do have a certain level of nostalgia about it and was more positive towards most of the stories than you were. "Benjamin Jones and the Imagineers" reminds me of when I was a kid and had to take out the trash at night and how scared I was about it! "Second Genesis" I recall enjoying a lot when I first read it, and loved the Maroto art although in time I realized his art is actually quite weak on this story in comparison to his usual work. I'm pretty sure "Bald Sheba" is the last original Jose Bea story we'll get, which is quite unfortunate as he's always been a very memorable artist for me. We will at least get a few more stories from him that Warren grabbed from other sources and reprinted including the later "Invasion". This story's ending I've seen in several places including the "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" book series and an episode of the original Twilight Zone. I believe "Proof Positive" is the first Warren story to be printed sideways, something we'll see from time to time going forward, most commonly on Esteban Maroto drawn stories. "Ain't it Just Like the Night" has got to be an inventory story since Moench is long gone at this point, but it was a pretty good one that I enjoyed. "Axe Man Cometh" was a decent, albeit overly gory story. "The Last Chronicle" is a meandering and totally unneeded story which bored me so much that I stopped reading it part way and gave up. They shouldn't have ever bothered with a sequel for a story that was already kind of overrated.<br /><br />This issue of Eerie has got to give us one of the strangest Warren covers of all time! Also rather cheap on Warren's part by simply coloring a reprinted panel instead of buying a painting. I recall them doing that several years back shortly after Dubay first became editor. The latest Jebediah Pan story is a fairly good one, and interesting idea with them continuing on with the concept of Kalerville into the next story, despite the different writer. A very weird story to conclude The Freaks story, but I enjoyed the absurdity of it. "Oogie" continues to be a poorly written series that makes me wonder if Maroto provided the art first and Dubay came up with some alternative story for things. Maroto's art continues to not be as good as he can be, although I do like the surrealist nature of much of it. "Invasion" was a decent enough story if for only how strange the artwork was. I've got the entire 12 issue run of Dracula that was made available in English (Warren only made the first 6 issues available but a different British publisher translated and brought over 6 more issues as well) and covered them on my blog a few years back. Bea provides a lot of interesting and extremely bizarre stories. I wish they chose a different story than this one as there's a lot better stuff than this. "Gilliam Taxi" I dreaded reading upon realizing how long it was and that there's no horror to it whatsoever (although I too was very disturbed by the cat murder!). It wasn't as bad as I thought it may be, but the fact that Eerie is giving us a fantasy story and not a horror one annoys me. Not too much longer until we've got another mediocre Bermejo-drawn series clogging up much of Eerie's pages in The Rook. Quiddity99https://www.blogger.com/profile/17809157926893454731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-20836451037071664922022-01-03T06:47:25.229-08:002022-01-03T06:47:25.229-08:00You're right! The main character discovers a c...You're right! The main character discovers a cat on his ship, so he shoots and kills it. Problem solved. Maybe the writer did not like cats.Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-18201355664829005092022-01-03T06:17:43.029-08:002022-01-03T06:17:43.029-08:00Maybe I remember it incorrectly, but I think there...Maybe I remember it incorrectly, but I think there's a real "WTF" moment in "Gillian Taxi" involving one of the "good guys" and cat. Not so much a dark one as a real "What were they THINKING?" kind of dark one. Or maybe it was one of the bad guys, I'm not sure. <br /><br />Even though I'm not exactly sentimental about it, I've always tried to identify the story about a woman taking in her fugitive brother so she can pin her husband's murder on him ("The Axe-Man"), so now this clears that up.Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09603892208775996594noreply@blogger.com