(Insert Ghoul Pun HERE)
So, while pillaging the MPL's online card cataloge for new Graphic Novel additions (and all you can find on there are juveniles; if you want stuff from the adult GN selection, there's no luck, unless you know who the author is or what the title is.
Anyway, I saw they had four Tales from the Crypt books available, so I figured I'd give them a try. I assumed they were reprints of the old EC books, but when I picked them up from the library, I discovered that they were, in fact, new digest sized stories.
The stories are not GREAT, but they're fun and creepy little stories. They're hooked right into the zeitgeist, as it were. There's a story about an action figure collector who comes to a horrid end, and an MMORPG player who finds the events in his real life start to reflect in game, and vice versa. A lot of Duh Duh Duhhhhh! moments. The American Idol one is particularly enjoyable.
Nothing to compare to, say, the one about the baseball player with the poisoned cleats, but some fun storytelling.
Jim Salicrup's got EiC duties, and Fred Van Lente both write a couple stories in the first couple issues. Joe Lansdale does a story in the fourth issue. The publisher, Papercutz, is also doing GNs based on the Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew, and is republishing a lot of Classics Illustrated backstock.
Anyway, I saw they had four Tales from the Crypt books available, so I figured I'd give them a try. I assumed they were reprints of the old EC books, but when I picked them up from the library, I discovered that they were, in fact, new digest sized stories.
The stories are not GREAT, but they're fun and creepy little stories. They're hooked right into the zeitgeist, as it were. There's a story about an action figure collector who comes to a horrid end, and an MMORPG player who finds the events in his real life start to reflect in game, and vice versa. A lot of Duh Duh Duhhhhh! moments. The American Idol one is particularly enjoyable.
Nothing to compare to, say, the one about the baseball player with the poisoned cleats, but some fun storytelling.
Jim Salicrup's got EiC duties, and Fred Van Lente both write a couple stories in the first couple issues. Joe Lansdale does a story in the fourth issue. The publisher, Papercutz, is also doing GNs based on the Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew, and is republishing a lot of Classics Illustrated backstock.