“Fright Night” comics by NOW Comics. copyrighted 1988
A bit of background, these comics pick up after “Fright Night II” in 1988, with Charlie Brewster and Peter Vincent becoming full time monster hunters. A continuing antagonist is Evil Ed, freshly back from the dead.
My treasures that Hunter brought me from BronyCon and DragonCon!
I am so proud of these and SO SO greatful to her for getting them for me!
From BronyCon, she brought me a mini print of fan art, a Doctor Whooves sticker, a Derpy Hooves patch, the Hellboy/Derpy Team Up mini comic and four badges!
From DragonCon, she got me DVD copies of “Evil Clutch”, “Cannibal The Musical” and “Monster In The Closet”! All autographed by Troma president Lloyd Kaufman! She said that he was really nice and he personalized each one!
When I first saw these I almost cried I was so happy!
Two sought after comics since this character just exploded on the scene because of Guardians of the Galaxy and Marvel vs Capcom recently.
And can you believe I found both of them in a 50 cent box at my local comic book shop?
I was mostly interested in Rocket Raccoon #1 here because it is the first professional comic work by none other than Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy.
More “Nightbreed” comics.“Hellraiser-Nightbreed: Jihad”.
Both “Nightbreed” and “Hellraiser” were given comic series by Marvel’s Epic Comics imprint. Epic was an attempt to compete with the likes of Dark Horse Comics with more adult themed comics including creator owned projects and film adaptations.
Since Epic had two great Clive Barker creations, they made the epic decision to cross them over. The result is an awesome confrontation between the Tribes of the Moon and the Cenobites.
In the story, The Cenobites were a driving force for pushing the Nightbreed into hiding. Since the Cenobites want to impose their idea of order on a chaotic universe, the Nightbreed’s uniqueness made them targets. Pinhead and a force of Cenobites have decided to finished the job the humans started and destroy the Nightbreed. It also brings into conflict Baphomet, the pagan god of the Nightbreed and Leviathan, the lord of the Labyrinth and god of the Cenobites, possibly the Devil himself.
It makes for a great horror crossover.If you can, track it down and read it. It is very well written, the art is beautiful, and along with the other “Nightbreed” comics it is the closes we will get to a sequel to the film. It comes in two books.
My “Nightbreed” comics that I have managed to track down. This is the closes thing you can get to a sequel to the film. The first four issues adapt the film. I believe that it was based off of Clive Barker’s screenplay rather than the final product that the studio meddled with and ultimately fucked up. It also has some crossovers with other Clive Barker creations. In one storyline the Nightbreed meet and battle Rawhead Rex, and in a special edition they encounter Pinhead and the Cenobites from “Hellraiser”.
Lost comics.
I guess another thing that went wrong is Plan 9 comics lost my comics again. Apparently two whole “ ‘68” series came and went as did a “FUBAR” special, and those idiots never ordered them let alone pull them for me. I had to train that new kid who works their to pull fucking “My Little Pony” for me after the last debacle.
“What do you mean you didn’t pull it for me? I have a subscription through you assholes for it!”
“Oh,Yeah. Wow. It was really popular and sold out quick. Sorry, dude.”
“That is why I subscribed to it!!! So I was guaranteed to get one!”
But I wrote enough about that in an earlier blog. I just had to vent about it. Again.
Near miss
The comic shop almost gave away my comics again this week. Instead of putting them in my subscription box, they put them on the rack with the others. The only reason that they did not sell out is that Boone is still half empty because the university is still on break. Its weird that they pulled “Hellboy”, “Godzilla” and “30 Days of Night” but they seemed to forget to pull “Adventure Time with Fiona and Cake” and “My Little Pony”. I know that they don’t seem to think that the same person would read all that, but if they read the damn pull sheets they would know. Yes, I read those and I make no fucking apology for it.
A friend of mine works there and he told me that one of the guys who works there is intimidated by me and that he is worried that i don’t like him. Well he should be because that unhelpful little idiot has cost me a great deal of money and frustration. I am determined to just visit the shop on Friday to avoid the drama and deal with people who know what they are doing.
I know its all over comics, but it is the principle of the thing. Like November’s comics incident.
