Tonight on the show we have from Morbius Amazing Spider-Man and now the current Dr. Strange book just entitled STRANGE we have Marcelo Ferreira then an indie artist I met at Monstah Xpo we have Cayte Major on with us. Music tonight will be on vinyl from the band HELLOWEEN and their album Stright out of Hell. Catch the show starting at 10pm est http://www.wcuw.org
Tonight on the show we will be talking about the life of Veronica Carlson and her untimely passing recently with her manager and friend Michael. Music tonight will be from Hammer Horror movies. We also have a couple really good songs by Baby Chaos and a few other amazing gothic performers. \
Tonight on the show we have Sarah Beth Cecilia Guimond Cemetery Commissioner for Massachusetts a great way to lead into the month of October and the first full week of Fall. Music tonight will be from October Noir and a variety of other Horror movies.
Neil Gaiman in 1989 created Sandman aka Morpheus aka Dreamer. This would become one of his most famous creations. 8 issues into the series he showed us a character who has been around since time it self DEATH.
But unlike the version depicted in all of cinema and tv up to that point this was a perky little goth girl. She would be the living embodiment of Death, but in a fun way. The original appearance of Death before the Crisis On Infinite Earths is Weird War Tales #8. The artist on the Vertigo book was Steve Dringenberg. Marvel has their own version who is coveted by Thanos, the Avenger villain.
She tries to help her brother Dream lighten up after the crap he went thru with Dr.Destiny in the previous issues.
Death design is based on a singer.
Neil Gaiman is quoted below about Death
“Death is the only major character whose visuals didn’t spring from me; that credit goes to Steve Dringenberg. In my original Sandman outline, I suggested Death look like rock star Nico in 1968, with the perfect cheekbones and perfect face she has on the cover of her Chelsea Girl album.
But Dringenberg had his own ideas, so he sent me a drawing based on a woman he knew named Cinamon Hadley the drawing that was later printed in Sandman 11 — and I looked at it and had the immediate reaction of, “Wow. That’s really cool.” Later that day, Dave McKean and I went to dinner in Chelsea at the My Old Dutch Pancake House and the waitress who served us was a kind of vision. She was American, had long black hair, was dressed entirely in black — black jeans, T-shirt, etc. — and wore a big silver ankh on a silver necklace. And she looked exactly like Dringenberg’s drawing of Death” Unfortunately Cinamon would pass away a few years later.
She would return a few issues later to help a transgender Metamorpho with identity confusion.
Then in 1993 She got her own series. This is how I learned of the character and was hooked ever since. Death the High Cost of Living and in 1996 Death the Time of Your Life. Both were written by Neil Gaiman and drawn by Chris Bachalo.
In both stories she is taking a day off to help those in need. High cost is considered the better of the two.
Death demonstrates safe sex by placing a condom on a banana held by John Constantine. Lightening the impact of the underlying message, she informs the reader that when one is through with the demonstration, “you can eat the banana.” This was used in high school health classes and is also reprinted as an addendum to the Death: The High Cost of Living trade paperback.
There is a third Death series, but she never appears and acts more as a force of nature. So similar to what she is in real life.
Recently DC published all Death stories and art in one volume except the manga.
She had a DC manga series as well called At Deaths Door by Jill Thompson.
She made two appearance in the Marvel Universe, at the wedding of Rick Jones and Marlo Chandler in The Incredible Hulk #418 by Peter David and Gary Frank (handing Marlo a hair brush, a visual pun referring to Marlo’s recent ‘brush with death’).
Then in the JLA Avengers crossover she appears with the Marvel Universe Death, and Dead man a DC character By George Perez and Mark Waid
Death appeared in Action Comics #894, which was written by Paul Cornell. Cornell confirmed that Neil Gaiman has given his approval for the use of Death in the story line. In the story, while searching for a black power ring. Luthor had encountered the rings in the Blackest Night story arc. Death never appeared and I never learned why.
Lex Luthor has a conversation with her in that issue. The cover is by David Finch and one of my favorite drawings of her.
She appears again in Action Comics #900 and in The Flash(vol. 3) #6, part of the Brightest Day crossover.
In the DC television series Arrow, a younger Felicity Smoke is shown with black hair and an ankh necklace as a subtle nod to Death
Death had yet to show up in the new 52, but was in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman Universe which has recently all been cancelled due to the ending of Vertigo comics last year. We can only assume it’s a matter of time before she shows up in new The Sandman series or one of the other supernatural DC books.
On July 15, 2020 an Audio Book of SANDMAN vol 1 will be released thru Audible with Kat Denning ( Thor, Two Broke Girls) playing her voice.
In some very sad news I have to report Artist Steve Ditko has died. He created Doctor Strange Blue Beetle The Creeper Hawk and Dove and more importantly with Stan Lee THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. I owe SOOOOO MUCH to Steve Ditko. Spider-Man is the first comic book character I ever grasped on to and the first comic book book I really ever started Collecting when I was 10 years old. I cant tell you how much Steve Ditko means to me. Doctor Strange is one of my favorite characters of all time. I am at a loss for words beyond saying what I feel he will be missed. Its very sad to hear he had no wife no kids no living relatives.
In honor of both my podcast co hosts being pregnant and true horror fans I thought they get a kick out of this new Horror movie coming.
You’ll wish you never brought your baby home.
Uncork’d Entertainment gives birth to evil with the chilling The Lullaby, in theaters and VOD March 2.
Chloe is overwhelmed by the birth of her first child. The incessant crying of her baby, the growing sense of guilt and paranoia sends her into depression. With a heightened urge to protect her son, Chloe sees danger in every situation. She starts to hear voices, the humming of a childhood lullaby and sees flashes of a strange entity around her child. Convinced that the entity is real, Chloe will do everything in her power to protect her son. Is she haunted by evil or is it just the baby blues?
Reine Swart, Deànré Reiners, Thandi Puren, Brandon Auret, and Dorothy-Ann Gould star in a Darrell James Roodt film, opening in theaters across the U.S and available on VOD 3/2.
“The Lullaby” in theaters and On Demand 3/2
I just heard the news today we lost Author Jack Ketchum.
Reported on his Facebook page yesterday afternoon by his webmaster
I am really broken up over this I cant even express how I feel
I have never had a guest on my show more often than I have Jack Ketchum since I started Radio of Horror back in 2007. Dallas to his friends. I could call Dallas anytime and he would always call me back. We would chat on the phone for HOURS about movies. He gave me a letter of recommendation to a job I desperately wanted back 2011. Jack beat Cancer back in 2016, unfortunately it returned and has lost his battle, you will be missed Dallas.
Please check his site for update info on memorial services.
Cinamon Hadley, the inspiration for the character design of Neil Gaiman’s Death of The Endless featured in his Sandman comics, has passed away from a long battle with cancer on January 6th. I’m pretty sad by this as Death is one of the best characters to be created in comics and really helped me deal with some of my own personal problems.
Neil Gaiman on Death
“Death is the only major character whose visuals didn’t spring from me; that credit goes to Mike Dringenberg. In my original Sandman outline, I suggested Death look like rock star Nico in 1968, with the perfect cheekbones and perfect face she has on the cover of her Chelsea Girl album.But Mike Dringenberg had his own ideas, so he sent me a drawing based on a woman he knew named Cinamon Hadley — the drawing that was later printed in Sandman 11 — and I looked at it and had the immediate reaction of, “Wow. That’s really cool.”
She had been diagnosed with cancer of the colon, which went into remission but returned. The friends of designer Cinamon Hadley have been celebrating her life and mourning her passing.
No show tonight folks look for a new epsiode of Supernatural Creatures and Lore this Wed
In sad news Director TOBE HOOPER has passed away of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Poltergeist. He now joins his fellow star Gunner Hansan and Heather O’Rourke in that big movie theater in the sky. 
https://www.google.com/…/tobe-hooper-dead-dies-texas-c…/amp/
Kat and I are recording new episodes of Supernatural Creatures and Lore Podcast and a couple weeks ago we created this video based on our time at the Horror con in Providence RI.
Tonight on the show we have Katie Montana Jordan, Freelance Writer, Occult Specialist, Paranormal Researcher, with us also Kirby from Scream For Me Inc. Also thru out the night tonight the music from STRANGER THINGS, or at least as much as I can play vol 1 is a long album.
https://www.screamformeinc.com/
http://sandiegoparanormalresearch.com/
I have no words over the death of Carrie Fisher it’s really sad and heartbreaking. I may be a horror fan but I am a bigger fan of Star Wars more than anything else.
Being a long time fan of Star Wars for so many years. This is just so frustrating. I am in tears over this We lost Kenny Baker early this year and the actor who played Admiral Ackbar too. She was fierce and strong and in Return of the Jedi incredibly sexy in a gold bikini. Force will be with you Carrie always.
Its with sad news to report the passing of I Know What You Did Last Summer Writer Lois Duncan. She broke her back last year and was in the Hospital on Monday. According to her husband she collapsed in the kitchen. Very sad to hear. I been trying to do a Q and A interview with her and we were scheduled to do it in a few week.
*Source of information her husband Don Arquette on her personal Facebook page
WOW may not be Horror but sometimes after covering so much horror you need a little comedy sci-fi from the 80’s and what better way to do that than with none other than BILL AND TED EXCELLENT ADVENTURE. As well as the sequel where they encounter Death ….Bogus
Check out the press release for more details.
Read on for all the details and head over to ShoutFactory.com to pre-order your copy!
From the Press Release:
Excellent! History’s favorite time traveling duo land on September 20, 2016 in a deluxe Blu-ray box set from Shout! Factory titled Bill & Ted’s Most Excellent Collection. The bodacious set includes Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, the Blu-ray debut of the sequel Bogus Journey, and is fully loaded with an entire disc of bonus features, including new interviews and commentary, deluxe packaging, a “Wyld Stallyns” branded guitar pick, vinyl stickers for both films, and previously released extras including The Original Bill & Ted, The Most Triumphant Making-Of, Air Guitar Tutorial, The Linguistic Stylings of B&T, From Scribble to Script, The Hysterical Personages of B&T, and radio spots.
Shout! Factory will also have a limited edition set complete with an exclusive lithograph and exclusive action figure of George Carlin’s character “Rufus,” available on shoutfactory.com beginning June 7. NECA, which created the figure, will also have a Bill & Ted action figure set available in July 2016.
The biggest concern for Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winter) and Ted “Theodore” Logan (Keanu Reeves), two totally excellent dudes from San Dimas, California, has been that their band, the Wyld Stallyns, “will never be a super band until we have Eddie Van Halen on guitar.” But now they’re on the verge of failing history class, and Ted’s father is threatening him with military school. To keep the Wyld Stallyns together, and save the future, they need to deliver an epic history report, so a messenger named Rufus (George Carlin) arrives in a time traveling phone booth to help them out. As they travel through history they pick up some new friends, like the “Bodacious Philosopher” Socrates, “One Very Excellent Barbarian” Genghis Khan, the “Short Dead Dude” Napoleon and “Noah’s Wife” Joan of Arc, and put on one outrageous presentation.
In the sequel Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, the daffy duo travel to Heaven, Hell and points in between as they meet robot versions of themselves, Albert Einstein, the Easter Bunny, and beat the Grim Reaper at a video game. Bogus Journey features an all-star cast including Keanu Reeves (The Matrix), Alex Winter, George Carlin, William Sadler (The Shawshank Redemption), and Pam Grier (Jackie Brown). At the time of its release, Roger Ebert described the film as “a riot of visual invention and weird humor that works on its chosen sub-moronic level, and on several others as well, including some fairly sophisticated ones.” In other words, not bogus at all, dudes.
The Exclusive Limited Edition Set Contains:
Ill be honest I had no idea this was coming out last year. The kick starter ended but you can still pro order a copy of the game. It had the highest grossing kick starter campaign for a video game ever. From the creator of the original Castlevania comes Blood Stained. Check out the link below.
Sad news as the Force Awakens comes out on blu-ray and dvd today.
Erik Bauersfeld, who died Sunday at the age of 93, wasn’t a household name. But his voice was famous — thanks to three little words delivered by a bulging-eyed, amphibious rebel commander Admiral Ackbar. He was also the voice of Bib Fortuna the alien we meet at the beginning of Return of the Jedi in Jabba’s Palace> Erik returned to voice the Admiral in last years The Force Awakens.
Admiral Ackbar was written as a bit part — a handful of lines in Return of the Jedi, most of them rather defeated. “Prepare to retreat,” “we have no choice, “take evasive action, “we won’t last long!”
And then a futile utterance — pointing out, too late, what Lando Calrissian had already realized. “It’s a trap!”
The full article can be found here from NPR. may the Force always be with him.
Super DUPER deluxe bluray set looks amazing and worth the price if you never owed the series before.
I was going to buy the dvd set at Bestbuy until I saw that this was coming out.
Deathnote is based on the hugely popular Manga of the same name from Japan.
Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s suspenseful story follows Light a high school student who discovers a notebook with the ability to kill whomever he wishes. WRiting their name in it.
I jumped on this anime show a little later than most people had. I’m really picky about my Anime. A lot of the time the writing can be real dense and over wrought with drama and dialogue that is taking it self way too seriously.
Of course I watch a ton of Hentai and actually enjoy the narrative between sex secenes, so what does that say about me?
The list of bonus material included is worth the price point if 69.99
This limited edition 6-disc collector’s set includes the complete 37-episode series with five language options along with two feature films (available in three languages) and hours of additional extras! This definitive set also comes with a 64-page booklet, which features the original manga pilot story that inspired the series packaged inside an exclusive chipboard box. Three hours of additional extra content includes interviews with the Japanese creators, behind-the-scenes footage of the English and Japanese voice cast, production art, audio commentary and much more
I think the best part is you get two of the three live action movies. L Change The World is not included.
If you have never seen this show before and always wanted to check it out this be a great set to pick up this Spring.
Sad news Alan Rickman died today the same week we lost Bowie both the same age and both died of Cancer.
Rickman was best known for his roles in Harry Potter, Dogma, Diehard, Galaxy Quest and so many more, he will be reprising his role as the Blue Caterpillar in Alice Thru The Looking Glass this coming spring. He really had this unique voice. Diehard is a great movie I watch every year. I will be putting Galaxy Quest on tonight in honor of him.
In other celebrity new David Margulies 2 hours played the mayor in GHOSTBUSTERS 1&2 also passed away this week he was 78 years old.
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