Showing posts with label scream. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scream. Show all posts

Tuesday, 20 September 2016

Scream Presents: The Thirteenth Floor



Imagine if Jim Warren had found himself in England at the tail end of The Bronze Age, putting out a weekly comic for a slightly younger audience than Creepy.
You've just imagined Scream, one of the last great British weeklies, before they sadly disappeared from our newsagents. Like the best Horror comics, Scream had an air of forbidden fruit about it, and your parents definitely wouldn't like it.
It had some fantastic, kid-centric serials, all introduced by your Eerie Editor, the mysterious Ghastly McNasty.


Here's one, The Thirteenth Floor, which comes with superb art from Warren alumni Jose Ortiz. It's about a state of the art tower block, and Max, the psychotic computer that runs it.
Max, like all the best British comics heroes, is a class warrior, always looking out for his low income tenants and exacting brutal, poetic revenge on anyone who tries to mess with them. Here's Max's inaugural murder, something he's going to develop quite a taste for...









Wednesday, 27 April 2016

Skywald Breaks The Fourth Wall



Skywald's editor and chief writer Archaic Al Hewetson loved playing around with the rules of story-telling and tripping up the reader, as well as appearing himself in every tale that contained a character who was an editor. Or any shifty, untrustworthy no-good for that matter.
A lot of his stories break the fourth wall, break it again, and then kick the rubble about a bit. Here's two: I Am Dead: I Am Buried and The Fetid Belle Of The Mississippi, both of which would be good horror tales anyway, but are much more fun for Al mucking about all over them.