31 Days of Horror 2022 Day 01 We summon the Darkness

 

TITLE-We Summon the Darkness

SOURCE-Netflix

So back in 2019 this horror film came out. I heard nothing about it till last year. Was late one night and I wanted something new to watch. Read the synopsis and thought this sounded decent. It is the late 80s and 3 teen girls have went to a metal band concert. Turns out someone has been killing people in a Satanic way. 

At the concert the girls meet three 80s era Metalheads with a van. Spend most of the concert with the guys. Then when it is over they invite the guys to come back to their place. 

Of course they want us the audience to assume these guys are gonna be evil and do something horrible to the young women. But nope. The girls spike the guys drinks. Then over the course of the film try to kill them.

One of the girl's dad's is a TV preacher. And a group the girls belong to has been doing these Satanic killings to boost the donations coming into the church. And that TV Preacher father is played by Johnny Knoxville. Who isn't in the film that much but stands out when he is on screen.

The only other member of the cast I knew was Alexandra Daddido. Seen her in TCM 3d and a few other movies. She really isn't given much to work with here sadly.

The FX work is decent. The script and acting is ok. But nothing about the movie makes it rise above the flood of horror you will find on Netflix.

We Summon the Darkness gets a C+.

WEHT Super Goof

 

Super Goof,not sure when I first saw a Super Goof comic. Betting it was mid to late 70s. But after I read one I was hooked. Already loved Goofy as a kid and making him a comedic super hero made this one of my favorite comics.

But what is Super Goof? It is a comic in which all your favorite Disney characters live in the same city. Goofy eats these super powered peanuts,that he calls GOOBERS,and he gains pretty much all the powers of Superman. These powers don't last that long. And Super Goof's costume is just a pair of red pajamas and a towel around his neck. So it looks like a superhero outfit some kid would come up with.

In the issue pictured above, which is Super Goof's only Dynabrite issue ,there is two stories. First is the one on the cover. Where Super Thief starts stealing various landmarks and buildings. Super Goof manages to bring back Big Ben and other things. But when the city bridge disappears he has no idea what to do. 

Thankfully Hewey Dewey and Louie appear and help Super Goof figure out what to do. Always loved the Junior Woodchucks. And can't forget how in this series Clarabell Cow is Goofy's girlfriend.

The second story has Super Goof and Mickey Mouse facing off against the Beagle Boys. Yep Disney most major character is a side kick to Goofy in this story.

When I got this comics I was wondering why now with superheroes being so big why hasn't Disney did anything with Super Goof since the comic ended in the early 80s?

Well turns out I was partially wrong. Sometime in the 2000s on the House of Mouse cartoon in one episode Super Goof appears. But outside of that since the comic ended it is like Disney forgot about Super Goof or is embarassed by it.

Imagine if in the next Avengers movie if Super Goof flies in to save the day. Or how about in the next Guardians of the Galaxy,we have Super Goof hopped up on Goobers,rushing in to rescue Gamorra.

From what I can find the Whitman Super Goof comics never got reprinted or put out in a trade paperback. And even back when they were coming out non of my friends read Super Goof.

Now look at that cover closely. This comic is from 1973. But see that cover price of 69 cents. Back in 73 average color comic was 25 cents IIRC. So why is this one almost 3 times more? That is cause of Dynabrite.

Ok smartass what is Dynabrite? It was a short lived attempt by Whitman to put out comics on much better paper. The paper looks feels and smells like Baxter paper. Which if you don't know is a really white paper that makes the colors pop. By the  mid 80s DC and Marvel put out a pile of comics on Baxter paper. And they would cost $1.25 when your normal comic on newsprint was 55 to 65 cents. From what I can find only 9 Dynabrite comics came out.Most of them being Uncle Scrooge or Donald Duck stuff. This is the only Dynabrite Super Goof comic.

Hey Disney superheroes are hotter now than they have been in the almost 50 years I have been alive. Why not make a Super Goof cartoon tv show or movie? If yall can bring back the Three Cabarellos,which was a great cartoon go watch it,why not at least give Super Goof a DTV movie.

Manifest Destiny Volume 1 Flora and Fauna TPB

Manifest Destiny VOL 1 Flora & Fauna

Image Comics

Off and on for the past 5 years I have had people talk about how Manifest Desting from Image was a neat twist on a historical adventure comic.

Last year I was at the  nearest Books a Million and  found vol 1 on their used shelf. I think I paid 5 bucks,cover price is 10 bucks. Then it got put into the TPB/Hardcover/OGN read pile. 

And got forgotten about until today. Sure it is summer but there was enough breeze to make it bareably to sit out  on the pier. I brought a huge stack of comics with me and Manifest Destiny Vol 1 caught my eye. So put on some music and 30 minutes later I was looking to  see if the rest of the series is out in  tpbs and how much it is gonna cost me. Cause damn folks this is good.

Written by Chris DIngess with Matthew Roberts handling  pencils and  inks Manifest Destiny started at Image in 2014. In the series you are following  Lewis&Clark as they explode the mid west/western part of the  USA.

With in the first 3 pages we get hints that something isn't right. Cause while this comic is based on  actual history,they add a nice twist.

They dock their boat and head to a nearby fort. Which is the furthest west settlement in the US. Here is where Lewis and Clark are suppose to meet Sacagawea. 

On the land they get attacked by a creature that is part horse,part man and part buffalo. Yea not a minotaur not a centuar but some weird hybrid.

When they make it to the fort it appears to be abandoned. Until a few of the guys,while looking for supplies,discover that some of the  fort denizens are still around but now look like  Swamp Thing.

So now our group adventurers are stuck in the  fort,cause a pile of the Buffalo-taurs have surrounded it. And got a pile of these planet people in the  fort after them. Shooting the plant people does nothing. Cutting them up just makes the parts cut off come alive and attack. They figure out that fire works. And this is when a few of the survivors from the  Fort appear.

The survivors explain how some kind of infection hit and turns you inside and out into a plant based life form. Who all share one mind. 

The group is worried about how they will survive,cause while they  can handle the plant people in the fort. They doubt thhey can get around the Buffalo-taurs. And have a very limited amount of food left.

Our leads come up with a decent plan. Having 5 people sneak out and lead the buffalo-taurs one way while the rest run  for the ships.

They are about to execute the  plan when  Sacagawea shows up. She has killed all the Buffalo-taurs. And wow there is a great scene showing her killing them  looks like  something out of a John Woo Hong Kong  action movie.

After making  it back to the  boats. And digging out some greek fire from the ships storage,they  plan on going and burning all the plant people. To try to prevent this infection from  spreading. It  kind of reminds me of kudzu. 

Anyone that gets the  plant people liquid on them  will turn into one and it works the same on animals. So  you  get a scene with a plant possessed deer.

And a great scene where one of the  good guys meets a plant possessed skunk

Lewis and  Clark get captured by the big plant that is the  hive mind of the plant people. And it's plan is like the killer plant from that one Superman annual that Alan Moore wrote. IE give the victims their heart's desires while the plant feeds off their bodies.

Native American  Ninja Sacagawea comes and saves our leads. And this trade  ends with her joining the group as they plan  on  leaving the next morning to finish their expadittion.

Really Really hoping this series is either over or near ending. Cause I plan on ordering all the tpbs at once and spending say 4 days just reading this series.

Never heard of the writer or the artist on the series. But the writer has a good way with dialogue. And the artist makes all the scenes full of 100 shades of green be super interesting to stare at.

Manifest Destiny VOL 1 Flora & Fauna gets a A.

                                                

Manifest Destiny VOL 1 Flora & Fauna

Image Comics

Off and on for the past 5 years I have had people talk about how Manifest Desting from Image was a neat twist on a historical adventure comic.

Last year I was at the  nearest Books a Million and  found vol 1 on their used shelf. I think I paid 5 bucks,cover price is 10 bucks. Then it got put into the TPB/Hardcover/OGN read pile. 

And got forgotten about until today. Sure it is summer but there was enough breeze to make it bareably to sit out  on the pier. I brought a huge stack of comics with me and Manifest Destiny Vol 1 caught my eye. So put on some music and 30 minutes later I was looking to  see if the rest of the series is out in  tpbs and how much it is gonna cost me. Cause damn folks this is good.

Written by Chris DIngess with Matthew Roberts handling  pencils and  inks Manifest Destiny started at Image in 2014. In the series you are following  Lewis&Clark as they explode the mid west/western part of the  USA.

With in the first 3 pages we get hints that something isn't right. Cause while this comic is based on  actual history,they add a nice twist.

They dock their boat and head to a nearby fort. Which is the furthest west settlement in the US. Here is where Lewis and Clark are suppose to meet Sacagawea. 

On the land they get attacked by a creature that is part horse,part man and part buffalo. Yea not a minotaur not a centuar but some weird hybrid.

When they make it to the fort it appears to be abandoned. Until a few of the guys,while looking for supplies,discover that some of the  fort denizens are still around but now look like  Swamp Thing.

So now our group adventurers are stuck in the  fort,cause a pile of the Buffalo-taurs have surrounded it. And got a pile of these planet people in the  fort after them. Shooting the plant people does nothing. Cutting them up just makes the parts cut off come alive and attack. They figure out that fire works. And this is when a few of the survivors from the  Fort appear.

The survivors explain how some kind of infection hit and turns you inside and out into a plant based life form. Who all share one mind. 

The group is worried about how they will survive,cause while they  can handle the plant people in the fort. They doubt thhey can get around the Buffalo-taurs. And have a very limited amount of food left.

Our leads come up with a decent plan. Having 5 people sneak out and lead the buffalo-taurs one way while the rest run  for the ships.

They are about to execute the  plan when  Sacagawea shows up. She has killed all the Buffalo-taurs. And wow there is a great scene showing her killing them  looks like  something out of a John Woo Hong Kong  action movie.

After making  it back to the  boats. And digging out some greek fire from the ships storage,they  plan on going and burning all the plant people. To try to prevent this infection from  spreading. It  kind of reminds me of kudzu. 

Anyone that gets the  plant people liquid on them  will turn into one and it works the same on animals. So  you  get a scene with a plant possessed deer.

And a great scene where one of the  good guys meets a plant possessed skunk

Lewis and  Clark get captured by the big plant that is the  hive mind of the plant people. And it's plan is like the killer plant from that one Superman annual that Alan Moore wrote. IE give the victims their heart's desires while the plant feeds off their bodies.

Native American  Ninja Sacagawea comes and saves our leads. And this trade  ends with her joining the group as they plan  on  leaving the next morning to finish their expadittion.

Really Really hoping this series is either over or near ending. Cause I plan on ordering all the tpbs at once and spending say 4 days just reading this series.

Never heard of the writer or the artist on the series. But the writer has a good way with dialogue. And the artist makes all the scenes full of 100 shades of green be super interesting to stare at.

Manifest Destiny VOL 1 Flora & Fauna gets a A.

Deadpool Samurai Volumes 1&2 Manga

 Title-Deadpool Samurai Vols 1&2

Publisher-Viz Media

I had heard that Marvel was licensing out some of their caped heroes to a manga company in Japan. But never heard who it was or when it came out. Then early in summer I found these 2 volumes on sale. Want to say I paid 5 bucks each. Not bad.

VOL 1

Deadpool is in Japan and after running into what is basically Japan's version of Spider-man (Sakura Spider) he gets recruited to form an Avengers team in Japan. 

So you got Deadpool,Sakura Spider trying to find more members. No idea why none of the normal Marvel 616 Japan based heroes/heroines appeared. But we do get an Idol singer who just so happens to have a Symboite that she has control over. Yep a Japanese Venom... And Sakura Spider is a huge fan of the Idol Singer.

After setting up this 3 person team the rest of the volume is them facing Thanos. Yep Thanos... I know way to powerful to face this trio. But the writer makes it work.

Want to take a second to point out 2 things. One is that I have never given a shit about Deadpool. Read him when he first appeared and was just Marvel's clone of Slade Wilson. And read some of the later stuff that made Wade the 4th wall breaking Spider-man that kills. So  not really sure why I bought these two manga volumes about Deadpool. Might be that I will pick up any cheap comic I find locally hoping this will get the store to order more. Second thing is the writer of this manga is great at making Wade Wilson pointing out all the Manga Tropes.  Sure I haven't read much  Manga since the late 90s, but for about 8 years I wwwas reading piles of it. And even being disconnected from modern managa the tropes havent changed.

Overall this first volume was so  much fun. I started reading it  one night  while waiting on my sleep meds to kick in. Normally I can read for 10 to 20 minutes then get sleepy. Well I got sleepy but was so into this comic I had to finish  it. And it was hard to not just go ahead and read the second and final volume. 

The art is really well done.With Deadpool and the other Marvel properties appearing in  an art style that feels like a mixture of manga style plus that kind of IMAGE CLONE style Marvel was asking  artists to do back in 96.

Writing wise this was a fun fast read. Never did I have to go "wait what the fuck is he talking about". And besides the  normal getting use again to going from back to front,right to left,reading style manga uses this was a easy  read.

Also this volume 1  tpb contains a few pages that are exclusive to the tpb. 

Deadpool Samurai vol 2

Viz

Now Deadpool has his team,bootleg Venom and bootleg Spidey. They  won the  big fight in the first volume. But here in volume  2 they must face a villain so powerful that he caused the Avengers to form back in the 60s.

Yep Loki is the big bad guy in this volume. I love how Loki is drawn. Oddly unless I forgot I don't remember sseeing Thor show up in  this volume,not even near the end when the Avengers show up.

Not sure if the same artist/artists handled the pencils and inks on this volume. Because the art to me is more detailed and  has the appearance of thicker lines. 

Nothing really new in  this volume. Deadpool and his teammates face off againt a super powerful villain. And thanks to Deadpool's mouth they win. Yep Wade's smart aleck mouth defeats Loki.

Where as it took me close to 25 minutes to read vol 1 I got vol 2 read in like 15 minutes. But there was way  less writing and more battle scenes. Lots more 2 page spreads.

Seems these 2 volumes appeared in the weekly Shonen Jump comic. I  don't think this gets published physically anymore in the States,I did read it for close to a year in 2008. But I know it gets a digital release in the states. I do like how the art is bigger in  Shonen Jump,which is easier on my eyes. But It is way way cheaper to just buy the 2 volumes. And I never mentioned it but this series is only 2 volumes. Which is good. Most Manga seems to run FOREVER. So I hate starting in the middle of a series and  hate knowing the series might not get a proper ending. But with Deadpool Samurai you  got two volumess to buy.

Looked and these are $9.99 a volume. So 20 bucks to get the  full story,even though each of them can be read withut  reading the other. And keep in mind  I am not a fan of Deadpool and not  really that much into Manga.But if you  are a fan of either this is easily worth the cover price. And for someone that isn't,this is still good and if you can  find the two volume lot for say 13 bucks or less it is worth the cash.

Deadpool Samurai vol 1&2 Gets a B.

Penny Century Issue 5

 

Penny Century Issue 5

Published by Fantagraphics

So  while I have heard a pile about Los Bros Hernandez and Love and Rockets I have only read a small handfull of issues.

But over the past 15 years I am finding  piles of the Love&Rockets spinoffs in cheap bins. So if it is by any of the Los Bros Hernandez and  under 3 bucks an issue I will grab  it. Planning on  reading it fairly soon. No clue  when or where I got issue #5 of Penny Century. But after reading it a few hours ago I am glad I got it.

Hopey is working a polling station,and learned more about her friends.

This is  your normal L&V comic. Slice of life stories. With great art with dialogue that sounds like  it is coming  from real people.

So far I have read this issue and all of the Mechanics mini series,which  IIRC reprints in color for the first time a few stories from the early issues of volume 1 of Love and Rockets.

Penny Century #5 gets a Buy.

Lobo Portrait of a Victim

 

TITLE-Lobo Portrait of a Victim

PUBLISHER-DC Comics

Oh Lobo. DC's 90s era bad boy. For about 5 years Lobo was huge. He had a monthly title some mini series and a pile of one shots. There was even a 16 bit video  game  made for Lobo,that never got an official release.

He is a intergalactic bounty Hunter. Lobo loves to  drink booze bang woman and kill people.

Back when Lobo was at his  peak  of popularity I read a few issues. But by 93 when this one shot hit the stands,I was too busy buying  piles of indies comics to bother with some "capeshit" from DC.

Like most Lobo comics the story is simple. A husband is tired of his screechign wife and screaming kids. So he goes to join some of his old buddies for a night  out on the town.

They happen to stumble into a bar where Lobo is drinking. And Lobo joins them for their poker game.

Of course stuff keeps happening which angers Lobo. And causes Lobo to attack the dudes his playing cards with.

The late Alan Grant is the writer,and he wrote a pile of  90s Lobo stuff. Val Semieks does the pencils.

I am guessing Lobo made DC a pile of money during the 90s comic boom. Like this one shot,cover price is $1.50. By 93 most comics were a buck or $1.25. DC knew  the diehard Lobo fans would pay whatever for a new Lobo Book. 

Hell I remember DC putting out a TPB collection. IIRC it was 3 trades,one contained the first Lobo Mini series. The second trade contained the second Lobo mini series. Then that third trade,which has never been reprinted,contains THe Wit and Wisdom of Lobo. This is a 80 to 100 page TPB that is full of blank pages. Cause hell it is  Lobo there is no Wit and Wisdom.

Lobo Portrait of a Victim gets a B+

Punisher War Zone Issues 20 Thru 22 Showcase

Reading some Cinema Sewer out on the pier as the sunsets #sunset #cinema...

Captain Atom Issue 83 Modern Comics Reprint Flipthru

The Permanent Tape Collection

 

6 Dvd cases 5 different feds do any of them make the Permanent Tape Collection?

Back when I first started recording wrestling off tape,and then copying tapes I rented from various stores, I just planned on keeping every wrestling tape I had. Be they Betamax or VHS,yes I was one of those traders that offered both.

Then as the collection grew and grew,the addition of 3 hours each of CMLL and AAA on tv channels I got didn't help that at all,I just figured I would keep this big huge former tv box full of like a couple hundred VHS and 17 Betamax in a spare room.

Thankfully I was introduced to the Permanent Tape idea in 1998. The ones that no matter how huge the collection gets and you gotta get rid of stuff the ones you will never part with. My Premanent Tapes was 6 Betamax of Mid South TV and close to 50 VHS of just all kinds of stuff. 

When I got all my tapes transferred to DVD part of the deal was the person  doing the transfer work got to keep the tapes. So by 2004 the Permanent Tape Collection became the Permanent DVD Collection. 

The first 6 years of DVD was the wild west years of the format. So much stuff got released. Like when VHS first hit mass acceptance there was a need for so much product to fill shelves. And some halfway smart promoters/footage owners got stuff out there. The infamous 4 vols of Grandmasters of Wrestling,which were DVDs of two sold shows held to help booster the career of the Mighty Macabee,a fencing Jewish wrestler. Filled with 80s legends that were not working  the big leagues during these shows. These 4 dvds in slimline cases,priced at  a buck from Digiview,might still hold a few positions in the top 10 best selling Pro Wrestling DVDs. 

That picture at the top,with 6 DVD sets of 5 feds? That is all from what is now my Permanent DVD Collection.

On top ya saw this great 5 DVD set of Continental Wrestling. This fed had it's original roots in Eastern TN but by the time I started watching it they were mostly running Alabama and eastern MS. For decades fans  have tried to find good looking copies of the Continental stuff. Usually it aired on low powered UHF stations in the deep south. Not many people recorded it. So this set coming out was a great thing. The footage,some which has  been out in tape trader hands for years some that I don't think was,looks really good for Continental. 

I haven't watched all of each  of the 5 DVDs in  the set. I have skipped around and watched some footage off each disc. This isn't full TV episodes. This is matches. Not in any kind of order. 

Rumor I kept hearing is a fan in the UK had high quality COntinetal footage from when it aired on  some satellite network. And that was discovered and used to make this set. 

I love it. But I watched this fed every Saturday from about 85 till it ended in the tail end of the 80s. This is gonna stay in the Permanent DVD Collection.

Southern Indy Wrestling Vol 2

This is how you package your DVD to get sales..... Well it worked on me. I was spending a Amazon giftcard I got for my birthday and had 3 bucks left. Saw that cover and it was 3 bucks and without reading the rest of the description I ordered it.

LOok at that amazing looking Disc too! Guess what? It is a Burnt DVD-R. 

It is 4 matches. One is a tag with Rock N Roll Express in about 2005 vs Rick Link and someone. One with The Maestro vs Super Duper Mario. One with Dick Foley,a Mick FOley ripoff/tribute,and another match that sucks.

I was thinking cause the cover sucked and the disc was generic who ever put this out knew the matches ont the disc would be so good there was no need to use the cover to sell the product. I was thinking wrong.

There are DVD-Rs from tiny local indie feds in the Permanent DVD Collection,that  are better than this pile of shit I got from Amazon.

Since I got this a few years ago I haven't seen any more copies turn up. Which I think is a good thing. Avoid this outlaw mudshow of a wrestling DVD.

Ring of Honor Global Wars 2 DVD set

                         &

Ring of Honor Global Wars 4 DVD set

I rarely buy ROH DVDs. I had 2 before these. Both of which I got for buy 2 get 1 free deal at a show. Those two I got signed by a few people that worked on the events.

These 6 DVDs of Global Wars were got for me cause ROH was having a HUGE sale. I have only watched all of the 2 DVD set but these are like most ROH shows from this era. More than enough good matches per set to make them part of the PDC.

Reto Lucha De Campeones

Even though when DVD became a thing I was living in Texas I rarely saw Lucha DVDs. I know they are a thing in Mexico. But they rarely seem to get a release in the States. So like with Southern Indy Wrestling Vol 2 I was spending the last of a Amazon giftcard,did a search for Lucha DVD and this showed up for under 5 bucks shipped. 

It appears to me some indie lucha show held in 2017 or so. The matches appear to be full not clipped or JIP. Of course this is in Spanish. Only Lucha DVD I have found with English and Spanish commentary is the Big Vision Rey Mysterio Jr in Mexico DVD.

There being so few Lucha DVDs means it is easy for them to get into my PDC. And this one is in there.

Heels Season 1 

And the last one in that stack. The most recent addition to the PDC. I watched this show each week when it aired on Starz. Lots of the Wildkat wrestlers got used in the show so it was fun spotting say Danny Flamingo or Bu Ku Dao.

Too many friends of mine don't have Starz. And I knew I would watch this show over and over. Found it cheap  at a closeout store. Working my way through the first disc still. But having watched season 1 when it aired I know this set is PDC bound.