Wordy Words on WordsI love Tales From the Crypt. I have for my entire life ever since I saw the Crypt Keeper bust out of a coffin the HBO series being rerun on the USA network (ah, memories).<br>
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Later I found out they made junior novelizations of stories featured in even older comic books.<br>
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Those books…<br>
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Listen: people really latched onto fairy tales but I missed that boat. I wasn’t raised with actual morality tales with violent repercussions of missteps - I was raised on Disney.<br>
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So a comic series that had moral lessons framed in horror where people got their just desserts was… well, it was awesome.<br>
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And I think if people wanted to try to trace back my love of philosophy and ethics, it would start right there with TFtC.<br>
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It was also a really interesting part in comic book history because it basically inspired the witch hunt from lazy parents looking to blame an external source for their kids being dickheads. Which led to *shudder* Silver Age comics. Goofy stuff.<br>
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Anyway, I guess they rebooted the TFtC comic and I was really excited to read it.<br>
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But then I read it.<br>
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Yeesh.<br>
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I don’t know what’s so hard about morality tales. Almost every story feels more like it belonged in Mad Magazine, not a horror comic.<br>
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There is one exception. One story that actually had teeth, but it was a weird duck.<br>
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The premise was that a guy was being tormented over and over in the afterlife because (it turns out) he was a suicide bomber and the victims in the bus he blew up get to deal with him for eternity.<br>
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So I guess the moral is don’t blow up a bus - or at least not while you’re in it as well.<br>
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As much as I love TFtC, this feels like a big swing and a miss.<br>
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Cynicism is Obedience<p>Mail call and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/NCBD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NCBD</span></a> pickups at the half off hardback sale. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BoodyRogers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoodyRogers</span></a> , <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RickRemender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RickRemender</span></a> , <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Moebius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Moebius</span></a> and the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ECComics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ECComics</span></a> crew!<br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comics</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/comicbooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comicbooks</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/comicbookcollecting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comicbookcollecting</span></a></p>
Krishna Draws✏️<p>I'm so glad <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eccomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eccomics</span></a> is back! Here's an illustrated tribute I drew, inspired by the classic horror tales found within that mag. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>horror</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/comicart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comicart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/comicbookcover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comicbookcover</span></a></p>
Cynicism is Obedience<p>Al Feldstein 1950</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comics</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/comicbooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comicbooks</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ECComics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ECComics</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AlFeldstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlFeldstein</span></a></p>
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Cynicism is Obedience<p>Wallace Wood 1950</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comics</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/comicbooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comicbooks</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ECComics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ECComics</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WallaceWood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WallaceWood</span></a></p>
dance along the edge 💬<p>Ballantine Books, 1964. Black and white reprints from the EC horror titles in paperback form, the first time those stories were reprinted since Fredric Wertham’s crusade ended most of the EC line. Frank Frazetta provides the cover with a unique self portrait.</p><p><a href="https://socel.net/tags/ECComics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ECComics</span></a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/BallantineBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BallantineBooks</span></a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/FrankFrazetta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FrankFrazetta</span></a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/TalesFromtheCrypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TalesFromtheCrypt</span></a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/EC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EC</span></a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/Comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Comics</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/comics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>comics</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/comicstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>comicstodon</span></a></span></p>
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