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Sunday Trade: Book of Monsters
Oct. 25th, 2009 06:15 pm
The Dark Horse Book of Monsters edited by Scott Allie
One of four horror anthologies from Dark Horse, this hard-back features seven stories about monsters...
1. "I Witness the End of the World!", story by Kurt Busiek, pencils by Keith Giffen, inks by Al Milgram and letters by Richard Starking & Comicraft. Busiek presents a tale of an arctic shaggy man-beast that is mostly about the change-over from pulp heroes to 4-color super-heroes...
2. "The Hydra & The Lion", story and art by Mike Mignola, colors by Dave Stewart and letters by Clem Robbins. Hellboy has a sort-of team-up with Hercules to capture a hydra...
3. "A Tropical Horror", story by William Hope Hodgson and art by Gary Gianni. An illustrated short story that tells the tale of a dread sea monster and the sailor who survived it...
4. "To Weave a Lover", story & letters by Arvid Nelson and art by Juan Ferreyra. Apparantly part of the Rex Mundi series, which isn't one I read. But is a perfectly stand-alone piece about a mad and murderous scientist...
5. "The Horror Beneath", story by Leah Moore & John Reppion, art by Timothy Green II, colors by Michelle Madsen and letters by Nate Piekos for Blambot. A nice and creepy monsters from the depths of the Earth type story..
6. "Hidden", story by Scott Allie, art by Paul Lee and Brian Horton, colors by Dave Stewart and letters by Nate Piekos for Blambot. A witch of the woods and a hypocritical preacher have a deadly falling out over the fate of a child...
7. "A Dog and His Boy", story Evan Dorkin & Sarah Dyer, art by Jill Thompson and letters by Jason Arthur. The dogs of Burden Hill (seen in Beasts of Burden) take in a strange boy who can speak to them. A sad story to end on...
