What was the last non-Marvel, non-DC book I blogged here? Unless I stumble across something else between when I'm writing this and when it posts (and yeah, I did!) it was an issue of Gold Key's the Outer Limits. I was thinking it was going to be an EC book; but today's book is a pretty direct homage to their horror heyday: from 1982 and Pacific Comics, Twisted Tales #1, all stories written by Bruce Jones.
As usual, I'm going to keep the scans in the area of PG here, but this was Jones's more adult homage to the classic EC horror books. Richard Corben draws "Infected," in which a collections agent trying to take advantage of a young woman gets his. Corben's art could make your trip to the supermarket terrifying, though.
"Out of his Depth," with art by Alfredo Alcala, is very EC: a girls' camp counselor, afraid she's aging off the market, has two options as far as finding a man. There's hygiene-deficient handyman Willie, and administrative cad Lowry. Feigning interest in Willie gets Lowry's attention, briefly: when she finds Lowry cheating, she marries the rank-smelling Willie out of depression and desperation. Unable to, ahem, consummate their relationship because of the smell, she runs back to Lowry, who knew the camp was on Willie's land, and he was actually quite rich...The comeuppance is implied more than seen here, but still awful. Awful in the exact way these stories should be, that is!
"A Walk in the Woods" is a fairy tale romp with art by Bret Brevins, and the last story is the Bradbury-like "All Hallows" with art by Tim Conrad. A now-teenaged band of trick-or-treaters seemingly have an entire neighborhood under their thumb, but their motivation is a surprise. Three solid hits out of four here, and even that whiff is stronger than most Marvel/DC horror strips. Wonder when I'll stumble across another of these, though.
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