tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post2033476440640512582..comments2024-03-27T05:54:38.797-07:00Comments on <i>bare</i>•bones e-zine: The Warren Report Issue 94: June 1978John Scolerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14082147756474762000noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-32638191794620858982022-10-01T11:52:07.720-07:002022-10-01T11:52:07.720-07:00Only 2 issues this time, but I was still nearly a ...Only 2 issues this time, but I was still nearly a week late in catching up. Anyway...<br /><br />"The Rook" story continues to be weak for me as I just don't see what is so intimidating about that Granny character. In the end she is fooled pretty easily and a weak story thankfully comes to an end. "Honor and Blood" I enjoyed and recall this series overall being pretty good, even if this first part was a tad predictable. The whole big computer thing about "Moonshadow" was cliché, but I didn't really mind it and was quite happy with this wrap up to the series. "The Einstein Factor" was extremely predictable and quite the weak story. That said, I really do like Pepe Moreno's artwork. His style is quite a bit different than that of the other Spanish artists working for Warren and kinda reminds one of Moebius. Alex Nino art couldn't save "Abelmar Jones", a story that was even more dreadful than the previous one. I also had a hard time telling exactly what was going on with the art at times. I hope this series is over soon (for some reason I don't think this is the last part, but this series doesn't deserve me spending the time to check).<br /><br />"The Alien Factor" was a weak kickoff to the issue, I'd expect something with more horror and more of a point to be in Creepy at this stage. Even 25+ years earlier in an EC sci-fi comic this would have been a rather lame story to me. "Helen Horror Hollywood" wasn't too bad although I too was rather disappointed by the conclusion. "Graveyard Shift" had a pretty good premise and I enjoyed most of the story but the end reveal of Sam kinda came out of nowhere, as did the electrocution of him. "Starlet, Starlet Burning Bright" surprised me as well with where it went at the end. "The Image Makers" on the other hand made it rather predictable that the bridge would come into play in the end, although the old lady's role in things I didn't pick up.<br /><br />Jack: There are still some individual story highlights I can remember but as a whole its a slow downward decline over the next few years followed by a rather massive crash after Louise Jones departs.Quiddity99https://www.blogger.com/profile/17809157926893454731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-20154316542509012652022-09-28T08:23:04.679-07:002022-09-28T08:23:04.679-07:00The only Warren mag I bought as a kid was The Spir...The only Warren mag I bought as a kid was The Spirit. We have 5 more years to cover--is it going to get any better from here on in?Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-44492125466739826662022-09-27T21:42:04.125-07:002022-09-27T21:42:04.125-07:00I’m pretty sure EERIE 93 was the first Warren mag ...I’m pretty sure EERIE 93 was the first Warren mag I deliberately DIDN’T buy. As I’ve mentioned before, my interest in the Warren mags had been generally waning for some time, and I was particularly missing the presence of Ken Kelly and Sanjulian on the covers. I have a vivid memory of spotting that Don Maitz cover on the magazine rack along the back wall of the Paperback Shack in Panorama City, looking askance at the odd, lop-sided composition (all that empty negative space!) and the two snarly frizzy-haired Vampire dudes. I think it’s a decent enough painting now, but at the time I disliked it intensely. It simply didn’t look like a Warren cover to me. <br /><br />I flipped thru the mag, thought it all looked kinda ‘been there, done that’, put it back on the shelf and spent my money on something else — possibly one of those Star Trek Fotonovels, or maybe one of the Arkham House reprints Jove was publishing around that time. <br /><br />I still bought the occasional Warren mag after that, but they weren’t instant ‘Must Buys’ for me anymore.<br /><br />b.t.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com