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Monsters

Your Weekend Creature Feature: Lovely Monster

By Crime HQ

September 7, 2012

LOVELY MONSTER from Francesco Calabrese on Vimeo. Recently the production company Lionsgate acquired the rights to a short film called Lovely Monster. The movie is a fake documentary about a young British girl who is slowly becoming a monster. I have no idea if the feature-length movie is going to be any good or not,…

He Just Wanted His Machete: A Tribute to Friday the 13th

By Crime HQ

July 12, 2012

Tomorrow is Friday the 13th, a holiday that I can’t possibly imagine celebrating without a massive tribute to one of my personal favorite serial killers, Jason Voorhees. The masked mystery man from Crystal Lake has run the gamut from being a very normal and real killer to being a supernatural killer obsessed with hand tools…

Fatale: Eternal Monsters and Bestselling Garbage!

By Crime HQ

January 4, 2012

  Back in October, we told you about Image’s upcoming “sci-noirror” comic Fatale by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.  Today, it’s here! Of course, if you haven’t yet had the chance to slink to the comic shop, Warren Ellis already got a 5-page preview to share that looks fantastic. Provided you like your Cthulhu monsters…

Grimm: Part Modern Detective Procedural, Part Dark Fairy Tale

By Crime HQ

October 24, 2011

It is no secret that the original fairy tales written by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm did not feature happy, sedated-looking woodland creatures frolicking about with doe-eyed, singing heroines. The stepsisters in “Cinderella” tried to swindle her Prince Charming by chopping off their toes to fit into the glass slipper. The evil queen in…

Fatale: Brubaker and Phillip’s Upcoming “Sci-Noirror” Comic

By Crime HQ

October 21, 2011

What do you get when you mash up James M. Cain and H. P. Lovecraft? New York Comic Con 2011 may be over, but anticipation of noir fans over the latest collaborative project of legendary duo Ed Brubaker and illustrator Sean Phillips has only begun. Together, they defined the graphic noir genre with Incognito, Criminal,…

Viking Barbie

Beowulf: Thriller 101

By Laura Benedict

April 29, 2011

Here is a photo of me as a fierce, honorable, and kinda-hot Viking Spear-Dane: Okay. So it’s actually a photo of Viking Barbie from a website where they sell Barbies of the World. But on days when life gets tough, and the writing’s not going well, this is how I like to think of myself.…

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