Monday Madness THE STAND "Afterward"

Slightly-delayed...

...here's the personal notes of the writer, penciler, color artist, and editor of the maxi mini-series that, combined can be considered the War & Peace of graphic storytelling!

Roberto Aguirre-Sacsca is currently the executive producer/creative director of the various Archie Comics TV shows including Riverdale, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and Katy Keene, as well as the CEO of Archie Comics!

Mike Perkins continues to work for both Marvel and DC, usually both penciling and inking (a rarity in the business)!

Laura Martin may have started as a colorist, but she's now considered one of the preeminent color artists in the comics field, enhancing great illustrations and salvaging bad artwork!

Editor Ralph Macchio is now retired, no doubt exhausted from working on The Stand!

Sadly, he has no on-line presence I can link to!

He is not the actor who plays The Karate Kid nor is he related to him an any way!

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The Stand Omnibus

collecting all six miniseries and the SketchBook plus an exclusive Companion in one huge HTF and OOP two-volume slipcased set!

Monday Madness THE STAND: NIGHT HAS COME "Finale & Epilogue"

We Have Already Seen...

...the Dark Man (Randall Flagg) has been destroyed.

Stu and Frannie's baby, Peter, is born...with the disease, but quickly recovers!

Is The Stand 2 Coming?
Only Stephen King knows...
BTW, the Epilogue is only in the extended/expanded edition, not the original published text!

In Two Weeks:

Behind-the-scenes info from the comics mini-series creatives!

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The Stand Omnibus

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Monday Madness THE STAND: NIGHT HAS COME "Finale" Part 1

SPOILERS:
This is the conclusion of the mega-adaptation of Stephen King's mega-novel.

Read no further if you don't want to know how the book ends!
OTOH, if you want to see how it compares to the ending of the CBS All-Access mini-series, jump in!

To Be Continued

Next Monday!

Previously, we brought you the opening chapter of the multi-miniseries adaptation HERE!
Now that the TV mini-series is airing, we thought now would be the right time to present the finale so you could contrast-and-compare!

Trivia: Marvel needed six mini-series from 2008 to 2012 to adapt the 1990 revised and expanded edition of the already-massive 1978 novel!

Randall Flagg, a character who appears in many of King's stories, unifying them into one "multiverse", makes his debut in The Stand novel.

But, in comics, he premiered in Marvel's Dark Tower adaptation, which was published before The Stand!

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The Stand Omnibus

collecting all six miniseries and the SketchBook plus an exclusive Companion in one huge HTF and OOP two-volume slipcased set!

Friday Fun / CoronaVirus Comics MAD "Failing Health Magazine"

Now that Halloween is over, we return to making fun of a real-life horror...

...by showing those who over-react to the slightest medical problem (and some that don't really exist) in a never-reprinted feature from EC's MAD Magazine #159 (1973)!

Scripted by Tom Koch and illustrated by the legendary Jack Davis, this was the sort of spoof MAD did better than anybody else in the humor mag business!

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Absolutely MAD Magazine

50+ Years on DVD-Rom

The only place this story's been re-presented, albeit in digital low-res!

(Make sure you get the revised 2012 version for as complete a collection as possible)

Monday Madness / CoronaVirus Comics MORLOCK: 2001 "Morlock Must be Destroyed!" Conclusion

When Last We Left the Plant-Man Fighting the Totalitarian Government of Earth in 2001...

...as seen from the perspective of 1975, when the story was created, he had been given shelter by a scientist who was conducting similar research into humanoid plants like what Morlock's creator had been doing!

Written by Michael Fleischer, penciled by Al Milgrom, and inked by Jack Abel, this never-reprinted tale from Atlas/Seaboard's Morlock: 2001 #2 (1975) introduces a new vengeance-driven antagonist who could either have worked with the government to capture Morlock or against the government to destroy the plant-man!

Except...as with most of the company's titles, the third issue featured a total change of creative staff and direction...as you'll see next Monday!

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Soft City

A "Lost" Graphic Novel about Dystopia

Monday Madness / CoronaVirus Comics MORLOCK: 2001 "Morlock Must be Destroyed!" Part 1

Continuing the adventures of humanoid vegetable Morlock in the dystopia of 2001...

 (as seen from 1975, when this series was created)...

Was scientist Bertling pursuing research along the same lines as Morlock's creator?

Or is the answer something far more sinister?

Find Out Next

MONDAY

One note: the "hobos" on pages 5 though 7 are based on Alex, the protaganist in the Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange and his gang.

(In fact, the hobos' leader is also named "Alex"!)

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A Clockwork Orange

Book and DVD Set