tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post789885029572379956..comments2024-03-27T05:54:38.797-07:00Comments on <i>bare</i>•bones e-zine: The Warren Report Issue 5: March/April 1966John Scolerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14082147756474762000noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-51913461432832245652019-04-08T16:41:46.922-07:002019-04-08T16:41:46.922-07:00Thanks for reading and for leaving comments! I am ...Thanks for reading and for leaving comments! I am right there with you in loving Johnny Craig's work. I think it's generous to call the Tuska art "interesting." We don't usually mention the frontispieces but I agree the art is nice.Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-409720455343390052019-04-08T10:45:16.672-07:002019-04-08T10:45:16.672-07:00Creepy 8 is another mediocre issue as far as the s...Creepy 8 is another mediocre issue as far as the stories are concerned. "The Coffin" is too long, but has some nice art. The rest is ho-hum. Still the splash page of "the Invitation" is as wonderful as Adam Link is awful. <br /><br />The George Tuska art is interesting insofar, as it is quite removed from his work on, say, Iron Man. As if he was inked heavily. Not that it makes the lame story any better. Boy, Warren loved his vampires and werewolves.<br /><br />"Fitting Punishment" with its groaner title must have lost a few captions explaining that clothing manufactorer Grover was a sorcerer or something so his revenge of the suit would make any sense. So it just comes from the left field.<br /><br />No love for the frontispiece by Torres? These are amusing. I guess the history books have forgotten about the french vampire epidiemic of 1732, but the one with trapping a vampire in a bottle with blood was a nice idea.andydeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01312309519462680892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-6519560407911740912019-04-08T09:19:40.464-07:002019-04-08T09:19:40.464-07:00Eerie's first real issue is a really strong on...Eerie's first real issue is a really strong one, one of the best of the early Creepy/Eerie issues. This is in particular due to the extremely strong art, with 6 of 7 stories being really good and just that last one being mediocre. Really excited to see Johnny Craig and Eugene Colan show up, up there with Angelo Torres' for the best art we'll get in the Archie Goodwin era. While the writing isn't as strong as the artwork is, I am a bit higher on them than you are. The Craig story in particular reminds me of his excellent "Til Death" story from The Vault of Horror where a man has his dead wife resurrected and she proceeds to rot away. Our protagonist in this story has somewhat better luck in that he can't see what she really looks like until the end.<br /><br />This is the only issue of Blazing Combat I own an original copy of (but I have a reprint book to cover me for the other three). Survival may be my favorite story from this title. Amazing art by Toth, and I just love that final line/panel. Foragers and Souvenirs are also high quality stories I like a lot. Very good artwork as well, sans Orlando.<br /><br />Creepy #8 is one of the weaker issues; for the first time we don't have a Frazetta cover (although Morrow is still fairly good). I've never cared for the 2 part Dracula story. For Adam link, we finally move past the part that EC covered, only to find the storyline getting more and more mediocre. A Vested Interest has one of the silliest endings I've ever seen. A Fitting Punishment also has that incomprehensible ending, reminding me of a story in Tales from the Crypt when a guy hides in a chest and then it shrunk with no explanation, killing him.<br /><br />The Craig story on the other hand I love; his pencils only artwork is just amazing (I think this is the sole pencil only story he does for Warren). I liked the ending a lot more than you guys did, if only because Craig pulls it off so well with the art.Quiddity99https://www.blogger.com/profile/17809157926893454731noreply@blogger.com