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Richard Corben is one of my all-time favourite comic artists, and one of the best horror artists ever, but this was a very disappointing read.
Very much late period art from him, some of it still works really well, a lot of it I thought was mediocre.
The book was promoted as being a homage to the short stories published by EC in the 50s, but as a writer he’s no Al Feldstein, and the stories are predictable and quite vacuous throughout. Nowhere near as good as the classic material he produced for Warren Magazines, in Creepy and Eerie, aided by far superior writers, and the comparison to the classic EC horror comics is a bit of a stretch, really.
2023 total = 475