Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Horror Comics Are Back
The Comics Code arose largely out of the horror comics of bygone days. It pretty well killed the genre -- but apparently it is back in a big way.
A woman takes an ax to her husband in their new home, someone is boiled alive in a public pool and a father is swallowed by the earth. Just another day in Hell. The gruesome acts never actually happened in this rural hamlet with the diabolic name, but those and other macabre tales are brought to life - and death - in the new comic book, "Hell, Michigan."By today's standards, the horror comics that resulted in the code are no big deal, and the code stifled genuine creativity in comic for decades. I just hope this time around the creators show a little restraint so we can avoid a repeat.
