A Descent into Dullness

Haven't done a comics post in a couple weeks.  But a fairly Halloween-ish flavor pull.

Copperhead #15:Writer Jay Faerber, Artist Drew MOss, Colorist Ron Riley & Letterer Thomas Mauer.  Violent father, missing mom & space aliens!
Saga #48: Art by Fiona Staples, Written by Brian K. Vaughan & Letters & Design by Fonografiks.  Two boys in the woods at night hunting an invisible monster!
Southern Cross #13: Stroy Becky Cloonan, Art Andy Belanger, Letters Serge LaPointe & Colours Lee Loughridge.  Ghosts!  Also Alien Ghosts!

The Damned #5: Written by Cullen Bunn, Illustrated by Brian Hurtt, Colored by Bill Crabtree, Lettered by Crank!:  Demonic pacts!

Before I get to this light week of comics, I just have to say. The percentage of people dressing up their babies in order to score free candy was pretty high. I'd say for shame on that practice except it leads to cute babies dressed as Batman. Which is very daaaaaaw...

This week I finally got the latest Godzilla: the Half-Century War. With the international anti-monster force given a devastating loss during a '75 multi-monster battle in Ghana. With Big G going all out against Mothra, Rodan, Battra, Megalon, Ebirah and Hedorah. I only know a three of those. And thats if I'm right in thinking Hedorah is the Smog Monster. Also Stokoe's Rodan is more dragon-looking then dinosaur-looking...

And the only book I got from this week, issue nine of the second volume of Fatale. And things don't go well for poor Suzy as she gets caught by the Hollywood cult. And Miles begins to wonder about who, or what, Jo really is...

And now I have to go and figure out who to give all this left-over candy to...

The Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft by many and various, Edited by Scott Allie

A truly clever man would have noticed ahead of time that there would be a Sunday Trade post on Halloween. And maybe then posted about Japanese students turned corpse-related mystery solvers. Or perhaps the story of the night a certain samurai bunny fought a legion of ghosts and monsters. And what about the tale of a pair of undead lad detectives at a girl's boarding school? But mostly that, since I'd already covered the first trade I'd picked up another Nocturnals trade by Brerton...

Oh well. Luckily, my shelves are deep with books and other appropriately spooky collections are available. Like The Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft, an anthology of short comics and written word on the theme of witches...

The three stand-outs for me from this collection are "Mother of Toads", a short story by Clark Ashton Smith and illustrated by Gary Gianni. A true horror classic in all senses of the word. Then a short Hellboy story, "The Troll Witch" by Mike Mignola. Assisted on colors by Dave Stewart and letters by Clem Robins. And lastly a Beasts of Burden Hill story, "Unfamiliar" by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson. I so love those occult battling pets...

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lurkerwithout's Halloween party:

alexlucard dressed as a pilot.
arcaneja dressed as a firefighter.
archon_huskie dressed as a bottom devil, and it suited them disturbingly well.
bluemoonfly didn't even show up and doesn't get any candy.
cid_ayrbourne dressed as Martha Stewart.
crazed_nut dressed as a mineral buoyancy.
crimsonjoe dressed as a organ.
cygnia dressed as a 1980's yuppie child, and it suited them all too well.
czarina69 dressed as Tipper Gore.
dead_kid_fred dressed as a new superhero: Flaming Man.
demiurgent dressed as the Governor of Missouri.
demonicfaerlyn dressed as a Level 9 paladin.
drakinfar dressed as a The Daily Plains Chronicle Newspaper employee, and it suited them disturbingly well.
dunkelza dressed as a witch.
durinde dressed as a senior software reinstaller.
dvandom dressed as the love child of Satan and Halle Berry.
elderjames dressed as your cousin.
elizabethpeake dressed as the Alternative Power Ranger.
ellakite dressed as a new member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Excessive Prophet.
ewysiwyg dressed as Mary-Kate Olsen with her very own conjoined Ashley.
ferris_dabler dressed as a vampire.
flemco dressed as a disturbing self-made character called "Doofus Hamsterface".
frustratedpilot dressed as a character from "His Girl Friday".
furrylogic dressed as someone called "Bernhard Oberbeck", but you've never heard of them before.
fyrdrakken dressed as a bottle of Tequupix, though it looked more like a pitcher for the Rockies.
helzapoppn dressed as Optimus Prime, and it suited them disturbingly well.
indigoskynet dressed as the Marquis of swoxcroid.
jack_yoniga dressed as a saving pixie.
jconstantine dressed as a green tragedy.
jenni_the_odd didn't even show up and doesn't get any candy.
kidzero dressed as a deer.
kinglerer dressed as Martin Sheen.
kobold dressed as a executive paper pusher.
longxiongdi dressed as Warren G. Harding.
m_fallenangel dressed as a Miami Evening-Herald Newspaper employee.
mossfoot dressed as the Silver Power Ranger.
msginnyo dressed as a pimp.
nedslade dressed as something annoyed, but what, specifically, you can't tell.
nihilistic_kid dressed as Optimus Prime.
ntwrth_memberin dressed as Sung Hi Lee.
phanatic dressed as a KNKP-AM 1015 employee.
poetheather dressed as Jay Leno.
prowler7 dressed as a new superhero: Shrinking Manhunter.
reimero dressed as the Earl of Little Byars, and it suited them disturbingly well.
revsaintmichael dressed as a threat.
sandman_oneiros dressed as a character from Harry Potter and the Tree of Blood.
scarybaldguy dressed as Katherine Heigl's uncle.
sclerotic_rings dressed as the spirit of their dead grandmother Kari.
seanmonster didn't even show up and doesn't get any candy.
sexyexpy dressed as a fox.
shadowkate forgot to put on clothes!
shawnj dressed as the main character of "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers".
sherant dressed as a bottle of Cafhudjade, and it suited them all too well.
shrokk didn't dress up, spoilsport.
silver_u_glass dressed as the Vicount of geppoft.
spoonyone dressed as Ulysses S Grant.
springrayn didn't dress up, spoilsport.
takhisis forgot to put on clothes!
the_outlaw dressed as Chekov from "Star Trek".
the_paco dressed as someone called "Percy Dellenbach", but you've never heard of them before.
theferrett dressed as the Governor of Virginia.
theweaselking forgot to put on clothes!
thundercum dressed as James Polk.
toddandpenguin dressed as Mel Gibson riding a skunk, though it looked more like a devil.
tuxedoalex dressed as the Indigo Power Ranger.
upononcehappend forgot to put on clothes!
ursulav dressed as a new member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Unlucky Professional.
vu13 dressed as Sandra Bullock's cousin, and it suited them disturbingly well.
weds dressed as the White Power Ranger.
wes_fantastic dressed as a angel.
windswept dressed as a badger.
workerant156b dressed as a Level 4 fighter.
zerographic dressed as Osama bin Laden.
zoethe dressed as a character from Harry Potter and the Tree of Aurora.

Throw your own party at the Hallomeme!
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Looking over this list, all I can say is some of you need to start posting again...

You lazy monkeys...