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Monday, January 18, 2021

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!

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Is THIS America's Future Under Trump?

As promised, the final, unused image...

...from the mini-series, illustrated by comics legend Basil Wolverton, about the Bible's Book of Revelations, which seems to depict Don da Con's term in office with frightening accuracy!

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Wolverton Bible

(which takes the illustrations from the HTF 1970s multi-volume series and reprints them in a single hardcover book!)

Sunday, July 19, 2020

America's Future?

Is this our future...

...thanks to the ineptitude of Don da Con?

Legendary artist Basil Wolverton did these illustrations for articles in a religious organization's magazine about the Book of Revelations.

They were later compiled, along with others, into a multi-volume version of the Bible which covered from Genesis to Revelations by that same organization!

Be here Tuesday as we reveal the final image in the series that was so shocking, the editors initially refused to publish it!

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Wolverton Bible

(which takes the HTF 1970s multi-volume series and reprints it in a single hardcover book!)

Compiled and edited by Wolverton's son, Monte, the 304-page Bible Stories includes all of Wolverton's artwork for the Worldwide Church of God project.

Recording artist and noted EC Comics authority Grant Geissman (Tales of Terror: The E.C. Companion and Foul Play!: The Art and Artists of the Notorious 1950s E.C. Comics!) provides an insightful foreword, while Monte Wolverton delivers commentary and background in the introduction and in each section.

This volume is authorized and commissioned by the Worldwide Church of God and endorsed by the Wolverton family.

BTW, Many of the illustrations (some never previously-published) are regarded as Basil Wolverton's finest work.

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder / CoronaVirus Comics LAST OF US "ART OF..." & "AMERICAN DREAMS"

With the release of the sequel videogame Last of Us Part II...

...it behooves us to explore the post-apocalyptic, but still pandemic-ridden world the series takes place in!

The game stars Ellie...

...a teenage girl who carries the disease, but hasn't yet "turned" into one of the "Infected"...

...who have been mutated into mindless killers by an extremely-contagious fungus!

The game is unique in that one of the two playable ongoing protagonists, Ellie's traveling partner and protector, Joel...

...is unstoppably killed during the events of the new game!

There's a kool article at the New York Times that provides more background, as well as detailing the events in Part II!

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Art of The Last of Us

(detailing the creation of the original game and prequel graphic novel)

and/or

Art of The Last of Us Part II

and/or

Last of Us: American Dreams

(the prequel graphic novel)

Monday, June 22, 2020

Monday Madness / CoronaVirus Comics Y: THE LAST MAN "UnManned" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...various seemingly-unrelated events that will (almost) all tie together by the end of this entry...

And the premiere comes full circle...

Written by Brian K Vaughn, penciled by Pia Guerra, and inked by José Marzan, Jr., this intro from Vertigo's Y: the Last Man #1 (2002) tells the story. clearly and concisely, setting up multiple plotlines for the future.

There's lots of concepts jammed into the multi-award winning post-apocalyptic 60-issue series including political conspiracies, ethical dilemma of cloning, LGBT extremists, and interracial love, among others.
Sadly, all of these concepts are still controversial.
Note the series does conclude on a somewhat happy note as humanity manages to figure out a way to rebuild, so the generation the story is set in isn't the end of the human race.
And, there's a TV mini-series now in production, soon to air on FX.
(Presuming it restarts production after the CoronaVirus pandemic ends, and reshoots almost every scene already filmed since they had to replace the lead actor...)

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Y the Last Man

Book 1

(collecting issues 1-10)

Saturday, June 20, 2020

As the Usual Summer Inferno Reaches the Continental USA...

...beat the heat by staying indoors in air-conditioned comfort and enjoying...COMIC BOOKS!

Read free comics of fictional epidemics/pandemics destroying America (or Earth) in the past, present, and future...Mon-Fri here on this blog, and weekly / bi-weekly on our other RetroBlogs, including our newest one...