‘Young Monsters in Love’ Comic Book Review

Borrowing the title from yesteryear’s romance comics of the 1950’s, Young Monsters in Love #1 is a lengthy anthology featuring both obscure and popular monster characters from DC’s long publishing history. With 80 pages to work with, the collection is able to highlight a number of characters that we rarely see such as I Vampire, the Monster Commandos, and Monsieur Mallah and the Brain, while also giving some fan favorites like Man-Bat, Solomon Grundy, and Swamp Thing a short story or two.

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‘Swamp Thing Winter Special’ Comic Book Review

Swamp Thing has been one of the most enduring “monster titles” to grace comics since the character’s debut in House of Secrets #92 in 1971. The title has also been written by some of the greatest writers in comics history, beginning with creator Len Wein, and followed by Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Mark Millar, Brian K. Vaughan, Scott Snyder and many other accomplished writers.

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Flashback Interview: ‘Rasputin The Voice of the Dragon’ Writer Chris Roberson

History has always been a passion of mine, and a lot of the joy of working on period pieces is in the research, and finding out things about a particular place in a particular moment in history that help make for a richer story. The challenge is to be able to tell which bits of historical trivia actually fit in the story that we’re trying to tell, which is why I’m lucky to have Mignola on hand to keep me on track.

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