Comics with a Horror Edge...

[MattWaterman]

...what's everybody's favorites?


Nothing will trump the Moore Swamp Things, IMO, and there were so many other cool ones. I'm looking for some new stuff, though, in the last year or three. Any recommendations...?

[dano]

not for you.
From what I've explored, which admittedly isn't broad, it seems a lot of what passes for horror these days is just gore books or adventure stories with a monster backdrop.

[Mike225]

True fans of horror should check out Chuck Austen's runs on Avengers and X-Men.

[j giar]

I always felt Grant Morrisons run on Doom Patrol especially towards the end had some great horror elements. Not on the gore side but from intensity. The coming of The Candlemaker is still something I'll go back and read from time to time. Just recently Sudden Gravity from Darkhorse. More of a psychological horror tale with some stunning pen and ink work. Done mostly with a normal bic pen.

[Calloway]

Anything Bernie Wrisghton touches.

The Hammer by Kelly Jones wasn't bad either.

[Ian Ascher]

Im currently reading the DC Showcase Phantom Stranger TPB which is some fun, classic, horror.

I also enjoy Hellboy, BPRD, and The Perhapanauts, when released.

[Nitecrawlah2]

The Hellboy books always feel like sci-fi characters/plots in horror-esque settings. Still great, nonetheless. The Walking Dead also uses a similar tone, with a horror movie playing out in "real life". That's probably my favorite book incorporating a horror theme, although Steve Niles' books always guarantee horror goodness.

[MattWaterman]

I always felt Grant Morrisons run on Doom Patrol especially towards the end had some great horror elements. Not on the gore side but from intensity.

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

A brother in arms! Man, if anyone asks me about an underrated comic, the words "Doom Patrol" are already coming out of my mouth before they finish the thought. While the art was fairly pedestrian, I still believe that was some of the most groundbreaking literature, including novels, that I've ever read. Between that and Animal Man, I loved Morrison's early stuff so much better...

But yeah, whenever I look for things horror I always end up with just gore. :yawn: What ever happened to good, disturbing writing? In the end I just 'settled' for the TPB of the first bunch of issues of Promethea... :\

True fans of horror should check out Chuck Austen's runs on Avengers and X-Men.

Avengers...? Horror...? No shit...

[j giar]

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

A brother in arms! Man, if anyone asks me about an underrated comic, the words "Doom Patrol" are already coming out of my mouth before they finish the thought. While the art was fairly pedestrian, I still believe that was some of the most groundbreaking literature, including novels, that I've ever read. Between that and Animal Man, I loved Morrison's early stuff so much better...

But yeah, whenever I look for things horror I always end up with just gore. :yawn: What ever happened to good, disturbing writing? In the end I just 'settled' for the TPB of the first bunch of issues of Promethea... :\



Avengers...? Horror...? No shit...

Yeah, I have the entire run of Animal Man as well. Still stands the test of time.

[bezelleo]

I'm diggin Marvel's Max title, Zombie, right now. Very well written and Hotz can draw some freaky looking zombies. This would be a cool Masters of Horror segment too.

[Ian Ascher]

Avengers...? Horror...? No shit...

He was being sarcastic. Chuck Austin's runs on Avengers and X-Men were some of the worst in ages. So bad you could call them horrific.

[HaphazardJoy]

the Batman: Dark Moon Rising minis are pretty good.

[Nitecrawlah2]

Mmm, I see your Chuck Austen and raise you Ron Zimmerman. <Shudders>

I'm a huge Doom Patrol fan, and totally agree with you guys on that call. Hell, the covers alone would give anyone a fright. I thought Richard Case and Stan Woch's artwork on the book really made it that much stranger. The angular, dark artwork really enhanced the scary creepiness of it all.

[Angel]

Possibly the greatest horror comic I have ever read was the graphic novel "From Inside" from John Bergin. Find it. You will not be dissappointed. Its one of those books that influences how you perceive comics from there on and it stays with you like a recurring nightmare.

I loved the Arcane issues of Moores run on Swamp-Thing, I purchased all the black and white millenium edition issues I could find because Totleben and Bissettes work on those issues is the best horror art ever seen in mainstream comics and the black and white version is so beautiful.

Also seek out John Bergin's series "Ashes" theres some real nice sort of abstract horror packed in those.

Maybe suggesting that you read "From Inside" is a bad idea. Because it has made reading all the horror since then seem like the equivalent of reading a Calvin and Hobbes strip by comparison.

[MattWaterman]

He was being sarcastic. Chuck Austin's runs on Avengers and X-Men were some of the worst in ages. So bad you could call them horrific.

I was wondering. I plunked down about $50 on them this afternoon and thought "these aren't scary at all..."







;)

Seriously, thanks for the suggestions though guys. I might check out some (my comparatively new job has me on the same block as Mile High Comics which, I can see, is going to be quite an expensive little georgraphic quirk...)

[Mike225]

I was wondering. I plunked down about $50 on them this afternoon and thought "these aren't scary at all..." :laugh:

[T.J. May]

Ahem :whistlin: ....anything by T.J. May. www.summ.net :laugh:

[j giar]

Possibly the greatest horror comic I have ever read was the graphic novel "From Inside" from John Bergin. Find it. You will not be dissappointed. Its one of those books that influences how you perceive comics from there on and it stays with you like a recurring nightmare.

I loved the Arcane issues of Moores run on Swamp-Thing, I purchased all the black and white millenium edition issues I could find because Totleben and Bissettes work on those issues is the best horror art ever seen in mainstream comics and the black and white version is so beautiful.

Also seek out John Bergin's series "Ashes" theres some real nice sort of abstract horror packed in those.

Maybe suggesting that you read "From Inside" is a bad idea. Because it has made reading all the horror since then seem like the equivalent of reading a Calvin and Hobbes strip by comparison.

Thanks for this Angel. I'll have to look this up.

[Nitecrawlah2]

Seriously, thanks for the suggestions though guys. I might check out some (my comparatively new job has me on the same block as Mile High Comics which, I can see, is going to be quite an expensive little georgraphic quirk...)
Yeah, you can still buy all five covers of X-Men 1 from them for only 29.99!

:rolleyes: