When Eclipse Comics ended the Tapping the Vein series after the fifth volume, it wasn’t because they’d run out of material to adapt – Vein only scratched the surface of the short stories Clive Barker had published under the Books of Blood title. Eclipse continued to adapt those stories in a series of standalone releases beginning in 1991 and going right up until the company’s closure in 1993.
Eclipse may have jettisoned the title, but their subsequent adaptations shared many similarities with those that had fallen under the Tapping the Vein masthead. Creators from Vein popped up in these releases, most notably writer Steve Niles (who scripted stories in all but one of these releases) and artist John Bolton. The Vein volumes each featured two stories, and two of these new releases did as well (Rawhead Rex was paired with Twilight at the Towers, while The Life of Death and...
Eclipse may have jettisoned the title, but their subsequent adaptations shared many similarities with those that had fallen under the Tapping the Vein masthead. Creators from Vein popped up in these releases, most notably writer Steve Niles (who scripted stories in all but one of these releases) and artist John Bolton. The Vein volumes each featured two stories, and two of these new releases did as well (Rawhead Rex was paired with Twilight at the Towers, while The Life of Death and...
- 3/11/2013
- by Blu Gilliand
- FEARnet
A recent story in USA Today shared the news that Clive Barker is working on an original comic book series for Boom! Studios entitled New Genesis. The premise is vintage Barker, who has never been one to shy away from twisting spiritual themes in ways that are bound to make some people uncomfortable. Barker, along with co-writer Mark L. Miller (fresh off a run on Boom!’s Hellraiser series) will be telling a version of the Bible’s Old Testament set in the present day.
Reading about that series (which I will have more to say about in the coming weeks) set me to thinking about Barker’s rich and varied history in comics. His work has always been uniquely suited for adaptation to comics, giving writers and artists a wealth of visually rich material to draw from.
Barker’s comics presence seems to come in fits and starts, with Boom!
Reading about that series (which I will have more to say about in the coming weeks) set me to thinking about Barker’s rich and varied history in comics. His work has always been uniquely suited for adaptation to comics, giving writers and artists a wealth of visually rich material to draw from.
Barker’s comics presence seems to come in fits and starts, with Boom!
- 2/19/2013
- by Blu Gilliand
- FEARnet
John Reese (Jim Caviezel) trying to crack the Machine's code.
Harold Finch is momentarily out of the picture but that doesn't mean that Reese, Carter, and Fusco get a day off as we find out in 'The Contingency' that the Machine is still capable of performing its primary function even without the presence of its maker. Meanwhile, Finch is off on a non dragged around by deadly computer hacker Root (Amy Acker) as he pays a price yet again for creating the Machine in the first place. Can Reese and the two detectives track down Harold Finch and keep the latest Poi out of harm's way?
'Something to watch over all of us'
That quote came from Root's crazed mind about the Machine and it holds true with the one exception of being incapable of keeping its creator, Harold Finch, out of harm's way. More on that drawback to the...
Harold Finch is momentarily out of the picture but that doesn't mean that Reese, Carter, and Fusco get a day off as we find out in 'The Contingency' that the Machine is still capable of performing its primary function even without the presence of its maker. Meanwhile, Finch is off on a non dragged around by deadly computer hacker Root (Amy Acker) as he pays a price yet again for creating the Machine in the first place. Can Reese and the two detectives track down Harold Finch and keep the latest Poi out of harm's way?
'Something to watch over all of us'
That quote came from Root's crazed mind about the Machine and it holds true with the one exception of being incapable of keeping its creator, Harold Finch, out of harm's way. More on that drawback to the...
- 9/28/2012
- by keysha
- TVovermind.com
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