Gothic novella Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was first published in 1871, predating Dracula by several years. It tells the story of a young woman’s susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla, and author Gary Scott… Continue Reading →
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- 8/30/2017
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
According to a casting call we happened upon on Backstage.com, the Jacob’s Ladder redux will be filming in Atlanta, Georgia, for the next few days (7/31-8/4); and it should still be heading our way sometime this year. Michael Ealy and… Continue Reading →
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- 7/31/2017
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
Earlier this month Wounds author Gary Scott Beatty was kind enough to provide us with a list of his Top 8 Most Clever Zombie Movies, and now he’s back with a movie reference list for Netflix’s popular series “Stranger Things.”… Continue Reading →
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- 5/16/2017
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
Earlier this month we told you about Gary Scott Beatty’s new graphic novel Wounds. Released by Caliber Comics, Wounds asks the question, “Is madness a way to survive the zombie apocalypse?” Beatty’s now on a blog tour in support of… Continue Reading →
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- 5/8/2017
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
We’ve mentioned comics writer/illustrator Gary Scott Beatty on the site before, and now he has a new graphic novel available entitled Wounds. Released by Caliber Comics, Wounds asks the question, “Is madness a way to survive the zombie apocalypse?” We… Continue Reading →
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- 5/1/2017
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
Beyond The Joker: The Man Who Laughs
Story by Valerie D’Orazio
Art by Dan Lauer
Edited by Darren G. Davis
Letterer Gary Scott Beatty
Cover by Dan Lauer and Graham Hill
Publisher Blue Water Comics
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Is there a Joker curse? Beyond The Joker:The Man Who Laughs attempts to answer this question by examining the clown as an archetype throughout history. The story starts out by detailing Heath Ledger’s experience during the shooting of The Dark Knight up to his tragic death after the film wrapped. The book then jumps to 1802 the year that Joseph Grimaldi created the familiar white-face look that we still associate with clowns today. Grimaldi it seems was the prototypical “sad clown” hiding his tears behind a smile and eventually a bottle. The story makes it’s way to John Wayne Gacy the serial killer who famously worked as a clown when he...
Story by Valerie D’Orazio
Art by Dan Lauer
Edited by Darren G. Davis
Letterer Gary Scott Beatty
Cover by Dan Lauer and Graham Hill
Publisher Blue Water Comics
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Is there a Joker curse? Beyond The Joker:The Man Who Laughs attempts to answer this question by examining the clown as an archetype throughout history. The story starts out by detailing Heath Ledger’s experience during the shooting of The Dark Knight up to his tragic death after the film wrapped. The book then jumps to 1802 the year that Joseph Grimaldi created the familiar white-face look that we still associate with clowns today. Grimaldi it seems was the prototypical “sad clown” hiding his tears behind a smile and eventually a bottle. The story makes it’s way to John Wayne Gacy the serial killer who famously worked as a clown when he...
- 5/28/2014
- by Zachary Zagranis
- SoundOnSight
It's Villains Month for DC Comics and they've taken over every title from Detective Comics to Aquaman and beyond! What better way to celebrate than to release a graphic novel featuring all the origins of the most infamous criminals to go up against Batman, Superman, The Flash, Shazam, and all our other favorite super heroes. Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics serves as a companion to the full-length documentary DVD of the same name.
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics is comprised of 26 origin tales and stories featuring Bane, Ra's al Ghul, Zod, Sinestro, Black Adam, Lex Luthor, Reverse-Flash, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, Black Manta, and many more. Each of them highlights a major event in the DC Universe and gives a breakdown of the villain's essential storylines and powers and weapons. If memory serves me well, these two-page introductions to each criminal were featured on DC's website at one point.
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics is comprised of 26 origin tales and stories featuring Bane, Ra's al Ghul, Zod, Sinestro, Black Adam, Lex Luthor, Reverse-Flash, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, Black Manta, and many more. Each of them highlights a major event in the DC Universe and gives a breakdown of the villain's essential storylines and powers and weapons. If memory serves me well, these two-page introductions to each criminal were featured on DC's website at one point.
- 9/26/2013
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Eric Shirey)
- Cinelinx
What better time for DC Comics to release Batgirl/Robin: Year One than around the same time they're publishing the Batman: Zero Year event. Everyone is excited to remind themselves of why they fell in love with these characters. The book is made up issues 1 through 4 of Robin: Year One and issues 1 through 9 of Batgirl: Year One.
Writers Scott Beatty and Chuck Dixon take the origin stories of Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon and expand upon their motivations for teaming up with the Dark Knight. This helps to get readers emotionally invested in the characters by giving them more depth and visually bringing to life their backstories. It's a blast to get to see the first time Robin fights side-by-side with Batman and how he reacts to his new life as a super hero. We also get to witness the first time Batgirl meets Batman and her early attempts...
Writers Scott Beatty and Chuck Dixon take the origin stories of Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon and expand upon their motivations for teaming up with the Dark Knight. This helps to get readers emotionally invested in the characters by giving them more depth and visually bringing to life their backstories. It's a blast to get to see the first time Robin fights side-by-side with Batman and how he reacts to his new life as a super hero. We also get to witness the first time Batgirl meets Batman and her early attempts...
- 7/29/2013
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Eric Shirey)
- Cinelinx
While we’re all busy celebrating the 49th anniversary of Doctor Who and the 50th anniversary of both Spider-Man and the James Bond movies, the daddy of heroic fantasy characters quietly turned 76 way back in February. Or, depending upon how you look at it, he turned 476.
The Phantom was the very first masked, costumed hero in comics, debuting in the pages of the many Hearst papers February 17, 1936. He wore a dark outfit – when the feature added a Sunday page, an unthinking engraver made the costume purple for some unknown reason and the color stuck. He fought piracy and other crimes and handed down his clothes, his weapons, his Skull Cave, his fortune and, most important, his legacy to his son. The current guy – most have been named Kit Walker – is the 21st. This cool concept predated Doctor Who by a generation.
One would think the locals were pretty stupid to...
The Phantom was the very first masked, costumed hero in comics, debuting in the pages of the many Hearst papers February 17, 1936. He wore a dark outfit – when the feature added a Sunday page, an unthinking engraver made the costume purple for some unknown reason and the color stuck. He fought piracy and other crimes and handed down his clothes, his weapons, his Skull Cave, his fortune and, most important, his legacy to his son. The current guy – most have been named Kit Walker – is the 21st. This cool concept predated Doctor Who by a generation.
One would think the locals were pretty stupid to...
- 11/28/2012
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
Last month we got a teaser of what would be included in the upcoming summer issue of Indie Comics Magazine with the announcement of Joe Sergi's The Zombie War of 1812, and now we know what the other seven stories will be part of the publication as well. Read on for the details!
From the Press Release:
Office sex, presidents battling zombies, and feral, mutant pets join tall ship vampires, military organizations with guns blazing, and a space alien in Indie Comics Magazine's Summer Issue, for pre-order Now in Diamond's June 2012 Previews under Aazurn Publishing. (Indie Comics Magazine is available Only through the Previews catalog in comic shops. No huge print run, no digital version - Previews is the Only way comic readers and comic shops can get their hands on Indie Comics Magazine.)
The stories include:
Guns blazing, a young "Teddy" Roosevelt cuts his way through a horde of...
From the Press Release:
Office sex, presidents battling zombies, and feral, mutant pets join tall ship vampires, military organizations with guns blazing, and a space alien in Indie Comics Magazine's Summer Issue, for pre-order Now in Diamond's June 2012 Previews under Aazurn Publishing. (Indie Comics Magazine is available Only through the Previews catalog in comic shops. No huge print run, no digital version - Previews is the Only way comic readers and comic shops can get their hands on Indie Comics Magazine.)
The stories include:
Guns blazing, a young "Teddy" Roosevelt cuts his way through a horde of...
- 6/2/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
It’s nearly time…
In just two short months the third and final chapter of the Christopher Nolan/Christian Bale Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, will descend upon us from the metaphorical rooftop and then we’ll all finally know. Will it have been worth the wait? Will we be able to actually understand Bane’s dialogue? Will it trouble Joss Whedon’s ridiculously awesome The Avengers?
In fact at this point, the only thing we can be sure of is that we’re most definitely due for some cowl-crunching, Bat-breaking Bane mayhem. And I say bring it on…
Those of you with a less aggressive interest in Batman and his family of friends and enemies may have had limited exposure to this mysterious, complex individual. As is, you may even consider him to be an unworthy candidate for a Nolan Batman villain – especially with the bar being set...
In just two short months the third and final chapter of the Christopher Nolan/Christian Bale Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, will descend upon us from the metaphorical rooftop and then we’ll all finally know. Will it have been worth the wait? Will we be able to actually understand Bane’s dialogue? Will it trouble Joss Whedon’s ridiculously awesome The Avengers?
In fact at this point, the only thing we can be sure of is that we’re most definitely due for some cowl-crunching, Bat-breaking Bane mayhem. And I say bring it on…
Those of you with a less aggressive interest in Batman and his family of friends and enemies may have had limited exposure to this mysterious, complex individual. As is, you may even consider him to be an unworthy candidate for a Nolan Batman villain – especially with the bar being set...
- 5/5/2012
- by Stuart W. Bedford
- Obsessed with Film
Merciless - The Rise Of Ming has been announced by Dynamite Entertainment. The series, scheduled to debut in April, will serve as a prequel to the publisher's Flash Gordon: Zeitgeist comic, focusing on the rise of the titular villain. Scott Beatty is writing the series, accompanied by artist Ron Adrian. Alex Ross will provide cover illustrations. "In most heroic fiction, we (the readers, that is) never really question why the villains do very bad things. It's always just assumed that evil is as evil does," said Beatty. "Ming is one of the great antagonists of science fiction. In many ways, he's archetypal and the model (more)...
- 1/13/2012
- by By Mark Langshaw
- Digital Spy
We hold in our hands the covers for DC Comics this March. As a child of four can plainly see, these comics have been hermetically sealed in a Cgc 9.8 slab, and they’ve been kept in a #2 mayonnaise jar under a giant pile of Christmas tinsel since noon today.
What do we have worth noting? The first fill-in artist on Justice League, although Gene Ha is certainly no slouch in that department. We also have new writers on Firestorm and Green Arrow, new backups in Justice League and Action Comics, and the DC 52 hits lucky number 7.
Shall we see who is the fariest of them all? Oh indeedy, let’s do!
As usual, spoilers may lurk beyond this point.
Justice League #7
Written by Geoff Johns
Art by Gene Ha and Gary Frank
Cover by Jim Lee and Scott Williams
1:25 Variant cover by Gary Frank
1:200 B&W Variant cover...
What do we have worth noting? The first fill-in artist on Justice League, although Gene Ha is certainly no slouch in that department. We also have new writers on Firestorm and Green Arrow, new backups in Justice League and Action Comics, and the DC 52 hits lucky number 7.
Shall we see who is the fariest of them all? Oh indeedy, let’s do!
As usual, spoilers may lurk beyond this point.
Justice League #7
Written by Geoff Johns
Art by Gene Ha and Gary Frank
Cover by Jim Lee and Scott Williams
1:25 Variant cover by Gary Frank
1:200 B&W Variant cover...
- 12/12/2011
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
We hold in our hands the covers for DC Comics this February. As a child of four can plainly see, these comics have been hermetically sealed in a Cgc 9.9 slab, and they’ve been kept in a #2 mayonnaise jar under a giant stack of returned copies of Holy Terror since noon today.
What do we have worth noting? The new look of Darkseid, and we’re far enough into the new 52 books that it’s time for Batman to start crossing over in all of them. Plus Mara Jade, the red-haired assassin who fell in love with her blond-haired man she was sent to kill– oh, I’m sorry, that’s from Star Wars. This is Mera in a jade outfit. Our mistake.
Shall we? Surely!
As usual, spoilers may lurk beyond this point.
Justice League #6
Written by Geoff Johns
Art and cover by Jim Lee and Scott Williams
1:...
What do we have worth noting? The new look of Darkseid, and we’re far enough into the new 52 books that it’s time for Batman to start crossing over in all of them. Plus Mara Jade, the red-haired assassin who fell in love with her blond-haired man she was sent to kill– oh, I’m sorry, that’s from Star Wars. This is Mera in a jade outfit. Our mistake.
Shall we? Surely!
As usual, spoilers may lurk beyond this point.
Justice League #6
Written by Geoff Johns
Art and cover by Jim Lee and Scott Williams
1:...
- 11/14/2011
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
The Last Phantom #9
Written by Scott Beatty
Art by Eduardo Ferigato
Colors by Vinicius Andrade
Letters by Simon Bowland
Covers by Alex Ross, Stephen Sadowski, Fabiano Neves
Dynamite Entertainment
Release Date: September 28th, 2011
Cover Price: $3.99
If you've never read The Last Phantom, this is not the issue you should start with. That being said, this Is a pretty great issue. It's got everything that a comic book should have-heroics, action, mystery, and most of all Fun!!!
Scott Beatty does a fantastic job of characterizing The Phantom as a serious hero, giving him a bit of a chip on his shoulder, but not making him boring or overly grim. He keeps a sense of humor when not being threatening to the villains of the story, which is a nice change of pace from most masked men with issues. […]...
Written by Scott Beatty
Art by Eduardo Ferigato
Colors by Vinicius Andrade
Letters by Simon Bowland
Covers by Alex Ross, Stephen Sadowski, Fabiano Neves
Dynamite Entertainment
Release Date: September 28th, 2011
Cover Price: $3.99
If you've never read The Last Phantom, this is not the issue you should start with. That being said, this Is a pretty great issue. It's got everything that a comic book should have-heroics, action, mystery, and most of all Fun!!!
Scott Beatty does a fantastic job of characterizing The Phantom as a serious hero, giving him a bit of a chip on his shoulder, but not making him boring or overly grim. He keeps a sense of humor when not being threatening to the villains of the story, which is a nice change of pace from most masked men with issues. […]...
- 10/1/2011
- by PS Hayes
- Geeks of Doom
Sherlock Holmes: Year One #5
Writer: Scott Beatty
Penciller/Inker: Daniel Indro
Dynamite Entertainment
$3.99
Release date: July 13, 2011
I love Sherlock Holmes, though I have not read any of the novels as of yet. Until I do though, there's a different way to read about the detective -- in comics. I have watched a lot of the movies and TV shows, and seen how the master detective uses his powers of deduction to solve what some consider to be impossible crimes.
This 6-issue series is called Sherlock Holmes: Year One and it is a look at how the team up of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson came to be. As the series begins we see brutal murders happening, and it will of course be up to Sherlock Holmes to solve these murders. The villain is known as "The Twelve Caesars Killer" as he been striking fear into the people of London.
Writer: Scott Beatty
Penciller/Inker: Daniel Indro
Dynamite Entertainment
$3.99
Release date: July 13, 2011
I love Sherlock Holmes, though I have not read any of the novels as of yet. Until I do though, there's a different way to read about the detective -- in comics. I have watched a lot of the movies and TV shows, and seen how the master detective uses his powers of deduction to solve what some consider to be impossible crimes.
This 6-issue series is called Sherlock Holmes: Year One and it is a look at how the team up of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson came to be. As the series begins we see brutal murders happening, and it will of course be up to Sherlock Holmes to solve these murders. The villain is known as "The Twelve Caesars Killer" as he been striking fear into the people of London.
- 7/13/2011
- by The Canadian Titan
- Geeks of Doom
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