Until the producers of the HALLOWEEN franchise can learn how to crank one out every October without fail like those SAW peeps, we’ll have to make do with the original HALLOWEEN comics from Devil’s Due Publishing. And since you know “until” equates to “never,” you have no other choice for a new Michael Myers fix.
HALLOWEEN: NIGHTDANCE is the first trade paperback of an ongoing series of new graphic novels for Haddonfield’s least favorite son. It’s a four-chapter look at what happens when Michael discovers Lisa, a girl who looks remarkably like his own sister Judith, whom he killed all those years ago. We know for Lisa, this can’t be good.
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When the FREDDY VS. JASON movie became such a huge hit, a sequel was inevitable, and one idea floated would pit those two titans of terror against Ash, the hero of the EVIL DEAD trilogy, as played by Bruce Campbell. The idea eventually stalled, but Jeff Katz’s story for it wasn’t for naught — WildStorm and Dynamite Entertainment joined forces to turn it into a six-issue comic miniseries: FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH.
Perhaps it’s for the best the concept was shelved, because if the movie would’ve resembled this book, it would’ve been a disappointment. Too bad, because it starts out strong, if implausible, with the two surviving FvJ characters returning to Crystal Lake “just to see” if the boogeymen are truly dead. Bad idea, kids! Because, of course, they’re not. The kids, however, soon are.
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A sampling of some of the bizarro search terms with (thankfully) low numbers that brought people to BOOKGASM over the last 30ish days:
• what’s in tracy’s knickers
• don draper bunions
• oh brother where are though book
• attack of the jew claw
• monkey penis
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Just wondering: How many editions of Bram Stoker’s DRACULA do you already own? At least two or three, I’m betting … maybe even one you’ve completely forgotten about. Thanks to the story being in the public domain, publishers never stop slapping a new cover on the classic 1897 tale to wring a few more dollars out of it.
But Leslie S. Klinger’s THE NEW ANNOTATED DRACULA is something rather special: probably the Drac edition you’ll cherish most. What the editor has done here is no surprise to anyone who marveled over his recent ANNOTATED SHERLOCK HOLMES volumes, because he does the same thing: crafted a definitive work.
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