Monthly Archives: October 2012

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Posted on October 24, 2012 by Tony Frazier

It’s why my leg broke off and crawled away on centipedal legs, and why my ass print is congealing into a big alien spider. 1 previous… next…

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Posted on October 23, 2012 by Tony Frazier

And now the thing’s bite has apparently infected me, so that I am now slowly being transformed into the same type of creature. 1 previous… next…

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Scary Movie Monday – Mighty Joe Young (1949)

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Tony Frazier

Okay, this one isn’t scary at all, but it still has a really big gorilla in it, and there’s some good tension in spots. Continuing our look at lesser-known Willis O’Brien movies and spin-offs (that aren’t King Kong–I’m planning to … Continue reading →

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Posted on October 22, 2012 by Tony Frazier

The thing was obviously not a single organism, but a collection of alien nanomachines, grouped together in the shape of a spider. 1 previous… next…

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Posted on October 21, 2012 by Tony Frazier

It bit my finger, so I stomped it, but that didn’t come close to killing it, and now I know why. 1 previous… next…

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Posted on October 20, 2012 by Tony Frazier

Or maybe not so simple, since this spider was iridescent and had eight legs that subdivided into sixteen smaller legs. 1 previous… next…

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Out of the Vault – Horobi

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Tony Frazier

Continuing our Halloween celebration of daikaiju in the comics, we have an attempt at a serious horror comic featuring giant monsters. Yoshihisa Tagami’s Horobi, first serialized in Japan in Shonen Captain magazine, then released to the U.S. by Viz Premiere … Continue reading →

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Posted on October 19, 2012 by Tony Frazier

Who would have thought that the invasion, when it came, would actually be carried out by a simple spider? 1 previous… next…

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Posted on October 18, 2012 by Tony Frazier

That template, so familiar now, involves thousands of spaceships and war machines blowing our cities all to hell. 1 previous… next…

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Posted on October 17, 2012 by Tony Frazier

That template was solidified when Orson Welles made his infamous War of the Worlds broadcast, Halloween 1938. 1 previous… next…

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