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    Todd Jordan
    Smut is good.

  • Creepy Comics #19



    Published by: Dark Horse Comics
    Released on: Feb. 18, 2015
    Writer: various
    Artist: various
    Cover: Sanjulian
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    Click HERE for last issue's write-up.

    A brand new Sanjulian cover? NICE! What a swanky way to start off Creepy's 2015 season. This issue gives us two new stories, a reprint from the Warren days, an inside cover from Sandra Lanz, and a few unfunny comic strip pages from Peter Bagge. As usual those tend to take any issue down a notch or two. But this issue has plenty of stuff that makes up for it, starting off with the cover's story.

    “Team Player”, written by Ivan Cohen and with art by Attila Futaki, is about a long-time pro baseball player who has yet to play on a World Series winning team. He's never even been on a team that's made it into the Series, despite his numerous MVP awards. This year that's going to change, and he is on top of his game. He's taking his team to the end and then kissing baseball goodbye. His good fortune doesn't come to him through hard work and determination, but rather from an unsavory source. And as you can imagine, his good fortune won't last long. His teammates will see to that. This one has a most unsavory (yet satisfying) end, and gives new meaning to the phrase “juicing”.

    “Mad Jack's Girl” written and illustrated by Gary Kaufman. Reprinted from Creepy #39 (1971). Jack is a street thug back when street thugs could dress like leather daddies and still be intimidating, and one night he kills an elderly gentlemen, the proprietor of a neighborhood shop. Or at least he though he killed the poor man. Jack's girlfriend Alice tells him otherwise and is none-too-pleased with the fact that Jack was involved with the assault. After an altercation with one of his thug buddies he goes to Alice's place for some comfort only to find she has some tea guests he'd rather not share a cup with, but her persistence to join them is more than he can stand.

    And lastly, “Acquisitions” is a tale brought to you by writer/artist Richard P. Clark. A wealthy old nut bag bites the big one and at his wake he's laid out in front of his favorite of all his possessions: his original Hieronymus Bosch painting. Catherine (granddaughter?) has a scheme in place to sell the painting out from under the estate's nose, but the painting is much more than just an amazing painting. The old geezer was able to utilize some black arts to perform a post mortem ritual to become part of the painting for all eternity, but the painting's boss man has other plans. Catherine will not like those plans. Clark's use of gray tones makes his artwork the appealing and gives it an edge over the other two stories in that department.

    Three quality tales make up this issue and with the Sanjulian cover thrown in that's ingredients for a fine comic book. If only they'd ditch the cartoons. Oh well, you can't have everything.






    • Todd Jordan
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      Todd Jordan
      Smut is good.
      Todd Jordan commented
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      I really REALLY wish Peter Bagge would stop contributing those unfunny funny strips. They are so out of place and don't deserve to be in the comic. There, I said it.
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