http://www.blastoffcomics.com/2012/02/horror-comes-with-a-lot-of-exclamation-points/ Embracing the Future, Treasuring the Past Wed, 08 May 2013 17:13:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.blastoffcomics.com/2012/02/horror-comes-with-a-lot-of-exclamation-points/#comment-1215 Tim LeMaster Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:49:58 +0000 http://www.blastoffcomics.com/?p=1229#comment-1215 EC comics usually had some kind of morality play going on. Bad guys would do something like murder in some horrible fashion but they would always get caught in the end. Also some of the best science fiction writers of all time wrote for or had their stuff adapted to EC comics. In fact their science fiction stuff is rather good.

]]> http://www.blastoffcomics.com/2012/02/horror-comes-with-a-lot-of-exclamation-points/#comment-1199 Jeff Nettleton Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:04:36 +0000 http://www.blastoffcomics.com/?p=1229#comment-1199 EC always had a sense of humor about what they were doing, compared to everybody else, which also meant they were less patronizing or hidebound. I’m no horror fan, either (too vivid an imagination that could turn something mildly scarry into horrific nightmares), but EC’s stuff was not Lovecraftian lurking terror or Robert Bloch horror next door. They were more in tune with the Universal monster stuff, the 50s atomic horrors, and the more gothic stuff.
As for literary recommendations, there have been books that specialized in that: Denny O’Neil’s The Question (DC, late 80s), James Robinson’s work, especially Firearm (Malibu); Dean Motter’s retro-future stuff (Mister X, Terminal City, Electropolis), Brian Bendis’ independent books (AKA Goldfish, Jinx, Torso, and the like) and some others (Grendel always had a very literary and philosophical letters page).

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