Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Triumphant Resurgence: Shin Godzilla

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I saw Shin Godzilla last night. I enjoyed it a great deal. I like my Godzilla grim, so the reversion to the 1954 film which treats Go...
Friday, September 30, 2016

Strange Fruit: O Morto do Pântano

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With translation assistance from David Ribeiro I had the good fortune to stumble on a lesser-known literary descendant of the Heap . As ...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016

The Classic: Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson's Swamp Thing

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Sometimes I wonder what was in the air, or perhaps the water in 1971. Three swamp creature crawled their way into comics in a single year. S...
Friday, July 29, 2016

Giallo Meets Kaiju: Cozzilla

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Luigi Cozzi, an Italian film maker, wanted to bring Godzilla to Italian theaters in 1977. Seeing the success of the 1976, version of King K...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

The Palimpsest: Godzilla King of the Monsters

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Shin Godzilla will be coming out on the 29 th . And I thought it was time to return to My Year of Monsters. I didn't write up the Te...
Sunday, June 12, 2016

Slinging Swamp Mud at Icons: Steve Gerber’s Man-Thing

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Although Man-Thing was not invented by Steve Gerber, it did attain popularity because of his brilliant and unconventional writing. So alth...
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Friday, May 27, 2016

It's Goopy and Thoroughly Disgusting: The Skywald Recrudescence of the Heap

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When most people talk about swamp monsters in the comics, they think of Man Thing and Swamp Thing. Both of these mucky derivatives of Hil...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Roy Thomas Shows His Love: The Glob

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Roy Thomas has long been a champion of the Heap. His career has been entwined with it. In 1969, he created a one-off villain for the incre...