After a space sabbatical of over 30 years, Space Monster Guilala returns in Minoru Kawasaki’s Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit, aka Guilala’s Counterattack the Toyako Summit One-Shot Crisis. The Guilala song, the suitmation, the kaiju movie white guy–It makes me feel good in too many […]
Pet the horror at the Chenille Beasts Gallery. (Thanks, spookymonkey!)
In this clip seems like Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze have been up to awesome with their film adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are.
Is it the human or the not-human that terrifies people in The Creature from the Black Lagoon? Frank Wu writes about the Gill-Man, the Uncanny Valley and “the human and inhuman at war within ourselves.” (Thanks, Chuck!)
The “best of” list is a tricky seasonal form and I’m no master. I might not know what’s best, but I do know what I like. So here’s ten good comics I read in 2007.
When Godzilla first waded out of the ocean to trample Odo Island in 1954, he was a monster for the times, serious as radiation poisoning. Japan was still rebuilding in the wake of WWII. Wartime traumas were still fresh. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were only nine […]