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This is a comic that I've been working on for quite a while, just another little passion project for me, but I wanted to release it all at once rather than piece meal. It's a little homage to my favorite decade THE 80s, a spoof of 80s direct to VHS horror and sci fi, cheap pulp comics, and the magic of those underpowered 80s computers that, in movies, at the magical ability to do ANYTHING.
Still tweaking the whole thing but I like how the cover turned out if I do say so myself! :)
Valley girl Totally 80s Mercedes thinks she's in for a quiet evening when she's hired to babysit for her neighbors' kids. But when they receive a mysterious floppy disk in the mail, it could be the key to the end of the universe.
Still tweaking the whole thing but I like how the cover turned out if I do say so myself! :)
Valley girl Totally 80s Mercedes thinks she's in for a quiet evening when she's hired to babysit for her neighbors' kids. But when they receive a mysterious floppy disk in the mail, it could be the key to the end of the universe.
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I remember living in my local video store. It was a hole-in-the-wall mom and pop place that was cool with me just hanging around since I was polite and they said, "Fun to listen to".
Prowling the rows, memorizing the movies and how the looked, smelled and wanted to be taken home.
The horror section had the amazing artwork that teased you with forbidden fruits. Some of those covers even being scarier than the actual movie, to a small impressionable child like me. ("Blood Beach", "The Stuff", "Body Melt" and "Redneck Zombies" to name a few) I was almost scared to even go around those back rows when the owner offered me a free weekend of rentals to help put movies back on shelf.
Scared that I would happen upon that one inescapable movie. Lost in that VHS world of nightmares.
So I hurried through that part and back to the white clamshell safety of Disney re-releases of "Bambi" and "Bedknobs & Broomsticks".
Looking back to see that somehow the eyes of "Metamorphosis" (with the LED flashing eyes on a 3D textured screaming face box gimmick) was blinking green. Even though i swear I didn't touch it.
Those days of overcoming fears and wondering when I might check-out.
Prowling the rows, memorizing the movies and how the looked, smelled and wanted to be taken home.
The horror section had the amazing artwork that teased you with forbidden fruits. Some of those covers even being scarier than the actual movie, to a small impressionable child like me. ("Blood Beach", "The Stuff", "Body Melt" and "Redneck Zombies" to name a few) I was almost scared to even go around those back rows when the owner offered me a free weekend of rentals to help put movies back on shelf.
Scared that I would happen upon that one inescapable movie. Lost in that VHS world of nightmares.
So I hurried through that part and back to the white clamshell safety of Disney re-releases of "Bambi" and "Bedknobs & Broomsticks".
Looking back to see that somehow the eyes of "Metamorphosis" (with the LED flashing eyes on a 3D textured screaming face box gimmick) was blinking green. Even though i swear I didn't touch it.
Those days of overcoming fears and wondering when I might check-out.
The VHS covers that contributed to my nightmares were The Stuff, Graveyard Shift and the first three Child's Play films. I'd always be terrified of possibly seeing Chucky's image glaring at me with crazy eyes and baby-face proportions. I've long gotten over my fear of those covers and I rather like the Chucky franchise in general, but when I was a small kid, the VHS stores were a minefield of fear, not knowing if the aisle that I walked down would lead to an airbrushed horror that shined brightly despite the pitch-black void of a background that was behind it.
That cymbal monkey, yeah.
The VHS cover was a grand art form when done right. Notice how they traumatized little kids like us.
Just glad the movies coming home didn't have the covers, just the clear VHS boxes.
I did get a bit creeped out by the 'Medusa Video' logo in the faces of death movies too.
Luckily, I also had Grandparents that LOVED horror movies and was able to be desensitized from those movies themselves. So Grandma would rent that "Bambi", then "A Nightmare on Elm Street" for later in the night.
Making me the horror hound I am today.
The VHS cover was a grand art form when done right. Notice how they traumatized little kids like us.
Just glad the movies coming home didn't have the covers, just the clear VHS boxes.
I did get a bit creeped out by the 'Medusa Video' logo in the faces of death movies too.
Luckily, I also had Grandparents that LOVED horror movies and was able to be desensitized from those movies themselves. So Grandma would rent that "Bambi", then "A Nightmare on Elm Street" for later in the night.
Making me the horror hound I am today.
Okay cool! Sounds like it is right up my alley.
I'm kind of out of the loop as to how these things are generally done these days, but I have recently read a webcomic I bought a few seasons of that were almost like web site downloads? As in.. Downloads of the websites they were posted as? Doesn't exactly solve your pdf issue, but neat as a distribution of the material.
I'm kind of out of the loop as to how these things are generally done these days, but I have recently read a webcomic I bought a few seasons of that were almost like web site downloads? As in.. Downloads of the websites they were posted as? Doesn't exactly solve your pdf issue, but neat as a distribution of the material.
I actually first saw the info for the buy here on FA, my current journal has a link to the post. I followed the instructions through the artist tumbler (a simple PayPal exchange) and was emailed a download link afterwards, it was very simple and sweet.
The product that I bought was pretty much exactly what a reader would have enjoyed while it was coming out, but with extras like sketches and some behind the scenes stuff. The whole site behaves like a DVD menu. Cate Wurtz is the artist, ParanoidFurfagoid here on FA!
The product that I bought was pretty much exactly what a reader would have enjoyed while it was coming out, but with extras like sketches and some behind the scenes stuff. The whole site behaves like a DVD menu. Cate Wurtz is the artist, ParanoidFurfagoid here on FA!
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