Best Horror Comic Threads

[TheLoStboY199]

There's a ton of great one's out there. List em here...

The Last Christmas
The Walking Dead
Hack/Slash

[FinalBeyond]

Hellraiser.

Also, the extent to which they could be considered proper horror is debatable, but:

The Crow
Battle Royale

[Scarecrow]

Clive Barker's Hellraiser without a doubt, alongside Clive Barker's Nightbreed, the Jihad crossover and a number of the other additional comics published by EPIC at the time.


- Scarecrow

[TheLoStboY199]

meh, I was never a huge Clive Barker mark. I own a couple, like "Night Breed vs. Rawhead Rex" but nothing too great. I thought the "Zombie World" series back in the mid 90's was awesome. Specifically one called Home for the Holidays kicked my tween ass up and down back in the day. Love that comic.

[Trioxin]

I was always a big fan of the "Dead World" series by Gary Reed. Vince Locke(did most of the album covers for Cannibal Corpse) did the cover artwork for the first three books and drew the first two. I only read the first installment to the whole franchise, but I think it's definately worth looking into.

[Scarecrow]

meh, I was never a huge Clive Barker mark. I own a couple, like "Night Breed vs. Rawhead Rex" but nothing too great. I thought the "Zombie World" series back in the mid 90's was awesome. Specifically one called Home for the Holidays kicked my tween ass up and down back in the day. Love that comic.


That'd be Issues 13-16 of Clive Barker's Nightbreed IIRC. A decent story I thought, very faithful to the cocnept of Rawhead. The Nightbreed comcis wer emore consistant but Hellriser relaly had some outstanding stories and talent working on them.



- Scarecrow

[Rich]

The Walking Dead are some great comics. I, however, am really enjoying the Marvel Comics Essential Werewolf by Midnight Vol. 2. It is a great (and huge) publication featuring black and white re-prints of the classic comics from the 1970s. It is very much like Universal's The Wolf Man. As a matter of fact, the very first issue in the volume features the werewolf battling the Frankenstein monster. It also has guest appearences by Morbius the living vampire, the man thing, Ghost Rider, and Iron Man. It features the MArvel premeir of the Legion of Monsters which is an awesome story featuring the Werewolf, Man thing, Morbius, and the Ghost Rider.

The Ghost Rider books themselves are great horror comics. The Essential Ghost Rider Vol. 1 and Vicious Cycle are the two graphic novels I own, not to mention a hard cover edition of one based on the original Ghost Rider in the west (as shown in the film).

The Werewolf By Midnight is very much in taste with the Universal monsters. The Ghost Rider is very much a dark mystical story of Johnny Blaze being a pawn of Satan, however, he winds up battling Satan (and frankly, kickin' his ass on his own turf). He battles hell demons and kicks their asses too, all while keeping his bike polished. ;)

If you want real gritty psychological terror, then you must check out Batman - Arkhum Assylum - A serious House on Serious Earth. That book even has a warning label on it saying not intended for readers under 18. The artwork in the book alone is enough to give you goosebumps, but the story involving Joker and other inmates of Arkhum is absolutely twisted. Basically Joker holds the whole assylum hostage and threatens to release all of the inmates unless Batman sacrafices himself by entering the asslyum and entering the maniacal head of the Joker.

[Don of the Dead]

I loved Friday the 13th: How I Spent My Summer Vacation, about Jason "adopting" a deformed boy being chased by a meth addicted sheriff out to kill the kid. I know the way I described this sounds stupid but give it a look.

Freddy vs Jason vs Ash, a classic.

Jason vs. Leatherface, so stupid its funny.

[Rich]

I liked the Avatar Friday the 13th comics. They were mindless Jason fun, kind of like the New Line films. The Wildstorm (DC Comics) Friday the 13th comics were more in line with the Jason Lives-The New Blood era version of the character as far as story telling, but they were a sequel to Freddy vs. Jason. I enjoyed the story arc of the first six. Then they did the two part story arc with Mrs. Voorhees called Pamela's tale. I loved the concept of telling the story while reinacting the Annie scene from the original, but I did not like how Elias Voorhees was handled. It was too generic and typical. They should have put more thought into it then just making him be a drunk abusive man. How generic and typical can you get? Dre (member of our community) has written Friday the 13th prequels that put these comics to shame. I have never read how I spent my summer vacation.

I can not get into the Nightmare on Elm Street comics. If it isn't Robert Englund, it just isn't Freddy to me. I don't know how I'm going to "take" the new film. When it comes to Freddy Krueger: "Told ya comic books was bad for ya!!!!!" - Freddy (A Nightmare on Elm Street 5 - The Dream Child)

The Texas Chainsaw comics are excactly what they should be. They are Leatherface getting down and dirty in mindless nasty stories. What more do you need? It's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

I own a Halloween III comic which features Michael Myers. It is the alternate story to the film that many people bash just because Mikey is not in it. Honestly, I have never even taken it out of it's plastic case yet. I love the film Halloween III and I am open to the idea of an alternate story to place more in line with the Myers film series, but something keeps holding me back. Maybe it's just all of my other comics.

My four disc ultimate edition of Dawn of the Dead came with a Dawn of the Dead comic which is really cool. The art work is amazing anf they handled the zombies wonderfully in it. My Halloween 25 Years of Terror came with the comic Halloween - Autopsys, which is a great Psychological story that shows the effects Michael has had on the psyche of Dr. Loomis. I think it happens between Halloweens 5 and 6.

Marvel has a lot of great horror characters. They have the more known characters as The Ghost Rider and Man Thing, but another favorite character of mine is Morbius The Living Vampire.

The Walking Dead is now a book in graphic novel form in volumes. I am about to drive into some of those soon.

[Natman]

Hellraiser, definitely.

But I also got to follow my heart and say issues 1-100 of Spawn. Those were near perfection and the best thing Todd MacFarlane has probably ever done with his life. After issue 100.... well, it was building to something from the first issue, got there at issue 100, then didn't know what to do with itself.

I also own the comic series based on Fright Night. Those were fun. It was great to see Evil Ed return as a central villain, in print if never on film.

But personal favorite is ruled solely by pure fandom. The Puppet Master comics published by Eternity are fantastic (much better than some of the sequels) and are probably the closest to my heart of any comics I own. Kind of unfortunate that there were only six (one four part series, one two part series) but those six were pretty amazing.

[Scarecrow]

I own a Halloween III comic which features Michael Myers. It is the alternate story to the film that many people bash just because Mikey is not in it. Honestly, I have never even taken it out of it's plastic case yet. I love the film Halloween III and I am open to the idea of an alternate story to place more in line with the Myers film series, but something keeps holding me back. Maybe it's just all of my other comics.



Dude, that's probably the Chaos series, which did three comics which covers say "HAlloween", "Halloween II", and "Halloween III" and are all related, I don't think it's anything to do with the third film.


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[DrSpengler]

Ya know, I used to have a complete collection of scans for Leatherhead vs. Jason. Then my computer crashed before I even had a chance to read em.

Oh the injustice.


But I read a ton of comics, and plenty of horror themed ones.

Dark Horse has been releasing these phenominal hardback collections of the classic Creepy title, the best black and white post-EC horror magazine ever made. Great stuff, very modern, with some jaw-dropping art from the likes of Frazetta and Toth. Pricey, about $50 bucks a pop, but you get so much content and its all so good.

Gemstone has been slacking on their hardback EC collections, and I'm ready too yank my hair out over it. They've released three volumes of Tales from the Crypt and one volume of Vault of Horror, but so far nothing for Haunt of Fear. These collections are stunning packed with so much bonus material $50 bucks almost feels like a bargain.

They just need to come out with them faster.

Hardcore Ghost Rider fan. Actually working on completing my collection (trying to get a cpy of all his appearances). Got a complete Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4 and Vol. 5 (currently ongoing). Not to mention complete collections of Spirits of Vengeance and Blaze, which were much better books than Ghost Rider Vol. 2, mostly. Still working on Ghost Rider 2099, though.

Marvel's Haunt of Horror miniseries have been wonderful, though they pop em out at random. Their Lovecraft-themed series was better than their Poe-themed series, if you ask me. Not sure what author they're gonna do next, if they do another mini at all.

The current Halloween comics have been alright. The First Death of Laurie Strode is alright at least in that it fills in the revised H20 continuity. Nightdance was good, but way too wordy for what it wanted to be. The best they've put out so far was the one-shot anthology issue, which had some great stories in it.


I have a lot of horror comics and I could go on for miles about them. There's some good stuff out right now, though.

[DarkPumpkin]

I agree with the mention of "Halloween: Autopsys"- it really had a classic Halloween vibe to it, and a neat little twist at the end. I also enjoyed the Chaos Comics' Halloween three stint run that they did. In the third one, they revealed that Laurie finally went completely whacko and became a Michael Myers copycat killer herself. While that was sure to piss off some fans, I thought it was a refreshing and interesting move.

I couldn't really get into the "Halloween: Nightdance" storyline much at all. The artwork is fantastic, but it just wasn't for me. However, "The First Death of Laurie Strode" is FANTASTIC. It takes place directly after the events of H2. This is the comic for rabid Halloween fans to drool over (well not really, since that would decrease the value of the comic, hehee) as it features several cameo appearances from fan favorites.

Only one problem: Devil's Due Publishing is currently going through a crisis and as a result, the third and final "FDoLS" has been put on hold indefinately!

[DrSpengler]

Didn't know about that, in regards to Final Death of Laurie Strode. That really blows, especially with only 1 issue left. Too bad, too, as in the letters collumn they announced they had a lot of plans for the brand, including a reintroduction of Jaimie Lloyd that would have fit with the revised H20 continuity. Major bummer.

I have a copy of Halloween Autopsy, but I haven't read it yet.

In regards to the Chaos! Comics trilogy, I thought they gradually decreased in quality with each issue. Whereas I really dug the first one, I couldn't get into that last issue. Laurie going psycho was an intersting twist but you could tell they only went there because H20 wrote the series into a corner they hadn't expected.


In other horror comic news, anybody ele still read Spawn? There aren't a lot of us, anymore, it seems.

The book has taken a completely new direction and their in the process of introducing a brand new Spawn to replace Al Simmons. I'm still not sure how I feel about that. I'm not against Al being let go, as his story really reached its zenith with the end of the Armageddon arc (which was fucking ace); everything after that being pretty pointless and dull. I just don't know if I dig this new guy yet or not.

[Rich]

DrSpengler, it is nice to see another Ghost-Rider fan. I only own the Essential Vol. 1 (which is black and white re-printings of the classic books), a nice color graphic novel, and hard cover graphic novel and a few periodicals.

[DrSpengler]

The most depressing thing about Ghost Rider is the overall lack of trade paperbacks, especially from the Danny Ketch era.

I've been working for over a year on completing my collection, which has been tiresome and expensive since I've had to resort to original issues for much of it (though the aforementioned Essential trades are a blessing for those early, hard to find and outrageously valuable appearances).

I grew up in the early 90s, so Danny Ketch will always be my favorite Ghost Rider, as I much prefered Johnny in his shotgun-weilding Blaze incarnation (excluding the era where he became a cyborg, of course). Despite that, the current Ghost Rider comic has been wonderful and the most consistent volume in regards to quality (the early stuff of Ghost Rider Vol. 1 can be pretty hard to read, while the Midnight Sons era of Vol. 2 contains some of the worst Ghost Rider stories ever written).

It's definately an awesoem book, with the current story arc featuring Danny Ketch as a villain being surprisingly awesome.