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Summary: My mom wouldn't let me get the book, so I saw the movie
Review: That movie was one of the best horrors I've seen! I can't wait to read the comic book, for as they say, a picture is worth a hundred words. In the movie, they did show the first and last panels of each story in the book, so I wish I could have seen the middle panels.
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Summary: Okay, but I was really expecting great art from Wrightson
Review: The conceit of "Stephen King's Creepshow," the 1982 horror anthology film directed by George A. Romero, was that these were the stories in a horror comic book. The implicit homage was to the great E.C. horror titles of the 1950s (remember this is before "Tales from the Crypt" popped up on cable TV), an idea reinforced by the fact former E.C. artist Jack Kamen did the cover art for this graphic novel version of the film that was based on a comic book. The chief attraction here for me was not that Stephen King wrote these stories, but rather than Berni Wrightson was the artist for the five adaptations collected in this volume. That is why I bothered to pick this book up in the first place; I had seen the movie and while it was fun it was nothing special. "The Crate" was the best episode of the bunch and "Something to Tide You Over" had some nice moments. But I had the illustrated version of "Frankenstein" that Wrightson did and a toney table top book "The Studio" that featured his artwork along with another favorite, Barry Windsor-Smith. This is why I was really expecting something special and why I was rather disappointed with this volume, because I do not think Wrightson delivers his best work. Part of the problem might be the coloring, which I believe was done by Michelle Wrightson, but for the most part it seems clear that that these five stories are no where near the artist's best work. Again, I think "The Crate" is probably the best of the bunch (although I really thought this was where Wrightson would go to town with the monster) and "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" is halfway decent (even offering echoes of the Swamp Thing). "Father's Day" and "They're Creeping Up on You" are the first and last stories in the book and neither is an improvement on the original film stories. Stephen King has done better and so, in case you are missing the thesis of my review, has Bernie Wrightson.
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Summary: Okay, but I was really expecting great art from Wrightson
Review: The conceit of "Stephen King's Creepshow," the 1982 horror anthology film directed by George A. Romero, was that these were the stories in a horror comic book. The implicit homage was to the great E.C. horror titles of the 1950s (remember this is before "Tales from the Crypt" popped up on cable TV), an idea reinforced by the fact former E.C. artist Jack Kamen did the cover art for this graphic novel version of the film that was based on a comic book. The chief attraction here for me was not that Stephen King wrote these stories, but rather than Berni Wrightson was the artist for the five adaptations collected in this volume. That is why I bothered to pick this book up in the first place; I had seen the movie and while it was fun it was nothing special. "The Crate" was the best episode of the bunch and "Something to Tide You Over" had some nice moments. But I had the illustrated version of "Frankenstein" that Wrightson did and a toney table top book "The Studio" that featured his artwork along with another favorite, Barry Windsor-Smith. This is why I was really expecting something special and why I was rather disappointed with this volume, because I do not think Wrightson delivers his best work. Part of the problem might be the coloring, which I believe was done by Michelle Wrightson, but for the most part it seems clear that that these five stories are no where near the artist's best work. Again, I think "The Crate" is probably the best of the bunch (although I really thought this was where Wrightson would go to town with the monster) and "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" is halfway decent (even offering echoes of the Swamp Thing). "Father's Day" and "They're Creeping Up on You" are the first and last stories in the book and neither is an improvement on the original film stories. Stephen King has done better and so, in case you are missing the thesis of my review, has Bernie Wrightson.
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Summary: Creepshow
Review: The creepshow comic book came in the mail today. I didn't quite know if it was really it because I only ordered it last Saturday.
I wasn't disappointed at all. You can see how they try to make the characters in the movie look the same as in the comic book. The art work was good. The first one was Father's Day which was exactly like the movie in every way. The second story was the Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill which could have been a little bit better. The other stories were good especially Something to Tide You Over which I thought was a bit funny.
GET IT!!!!!!It's a great paperback...
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Summary: MOST ORIGIONAL BOOK IN YEARS
Review: THIS BOOK IS SCARY, GORY, COOL AND JUST PLAIN FUN. THE MOVIE DOESN'T DO IT JUSTICE
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Summary: Interesting format for a King story collection.
Review: This is a comic book version of the screenplay based on Stephen King stories. The drawing and story included in the book hold true to the movie and the plots of the different stories included. King's love of the macabre and unusual twists comes through even in the abbreviated version of these stories. If you like the movie, then this book is a must have for any King fan.
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Summary: Interesting format for a King story collection.
Review: This is a comic book version of the screenplay based on Stephen King stories. The drawing and story included in the book hold true to the movie and the plots of the different stories included. King's love of the macabre and unusual twists comes through even in the abbreviated version of these stories. If you like the movie, then this book is a must have for any King fan.
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Summary: A simply GORGEOUS comic album on horror tales!
Review: Vivid colors will jump out at you as you open up this beautifully illustrated book based on The King of Macabre's amusing little bag of short stories! You will wince at each hair-raising climax of each gruesome tale as shown in full color and every stomach-churning little detail! And the very ending of all those spine-tingling yarns will leave you cold. Utterly cold. But you will enjoy it all quite immsensely nevertheless, savoring each and every clever word and graceful lines as done by the hand of our reowned comic book artist, Berni Wrightson, who also did the "Swamp Thing". The whole show will be hosted by the crackling, hooded Reaper of Death who will chortle gleefully at the very last agonizing and writhing minutes of each hapless character! So go enjoy yourself, honey!
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Summary: Vintage horror comic, in the EC style
Review: Who remebers the Crypt Keeper? No, not from the movies, but from the comics. Yeah, the ones that were banned because of violence, and stuff like that back in the fifties. Well this is just like one of those old comics, a la Stephen King. It's got humor, gore and a cameo by the master of horror himself
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