Comics, Books, & Zine Review
Jake Karn's stuff is something you must own. Anything you don't have of his, you need it. Simply own all you can of this guy's work. He never fails to deliver the old school horror comics gone completely insane and fucked up with gore beyond your most wildest imaginations. Plus everything is in badass color.
This was one of the first comic I ever bought as a kid at a Flea Market, a Godzilla Dark Horse Special from around the 80's. When I first got it, I was reading it on the floor, suddenly my stupid mom dripped some toothpaste from her mouth on the cover as you can see on the stains. Why the hell did she leave the bathroom and walk across me while she was brushing her teeth anyways?! That I'll never know and to this day she probably doesn't even remember it happening or know I own this comic at all. Okay, enough with my childhood memories. The art is b/w and has that scratchy ink shading. On the cover Godzilla has a monkey face for some reason but he looks more like Godzilla inside. The story is about some girl reflecting on the devastation Godzilla left after fighting some other monsters. She's also depressed about her dad being weird after some accident with radioactive stuff on a consturction site and apparently that's related to Godzilla's enemies somehow. Eh whatever, I skipped through the story and just paid more attention to the panels where Godzilla was destroying stuff, which there was a good amount of. The back cover of the comic has an awesome picture of samruais shitting their pants when Godzilla pops up from nowhere, as seen up at the right. I also took the liberty to scan a pin up art page from the comic that was done by Alan Moore cause it was just so cool. There's a couple other pin up art pages but this one was the best. Check it out:
Flesh Crawlers is a 3 issue story from Kitchen Sink Comix. The art is top notch classic horror style (I'm too lazy to scan the inside, basically it's like the cover art but in b/w) and the writing is straight to the point, no boring bullshit riddled in too many pointless details. Story is simple: aliens that possess people/shape shift/whatever are on earth for some reason and they just happen to conveniently want to kill people. They also have a gigantic sophisticated ship because we all know any living thing not from earth and looks likes a mindless animal is more intellectual than us right? The only thing in these alien's way is a secret task force that knows how these sneaky "Flesh Crawler" operate (kinda like the Men in Black). One guy that fell victim to the alien died then was mysteriously resurrected (in other words alien took over his dead body). Later one reverend took credit for the miracle at first...until he realized "nobody seemed like themselves lately" or something like that. Yep, real cheesy typical bad sci-fi movie plot with some splatter and gunblasting action. Nothing deep or complex, just simply stupid fun. Go get it on ebay or something for a couple bucks.
Whoa, G.I Joe in 3-D! Rad. Too bad I don't have the 3-D glasses though. I'm too much of a lazy asshole to read it. Just knowing the fact that it's G.I Joe in 3-D makes you feel good about the whole thing.
Pretty obscure thing I own....an Andrew Dice Clay comic. The art is average with no style inside and I don't know what's going on, something about women being bitches and/or hoes I guess. There's lots of chicks in lingerie though, pretty sleazy...which is weird because I won this comic at a Catholic Church festival like 13 years ago. Did they even bother reviewing the stuff they handed out as prizes for that ball toss game? Ahh demented childhood memories...they rule like no other.
Gore Worm Comics is real bad trashy b/w newsprint comics with tasteless strips, like a random chick that just "rides" a corpse suddenly or people just getting killed for no real reason, yeah so it's pretty cool in a funny sleaze way. It'll appeal to fans of underground extreme metal. There's even a comic by Mike Majewski (of Devourment fame?) in it. Gore Worm comics also did a comic called "Mosh" (the comic on the left above). The art is early 90's mainstream Rob Liefeld/Image Comics style...I'm not too fond of that stuff so "Mosh" was brilliant in an Ed Wood kinda way, especially for the non-existent plot and huge ridiculously buff moshers that look like they were off the pages of Youngblood. I got these comics from this dude, nice guy: http://www.myspace.com/necrotic_records