{"id":8698,"date":"2009-10-14T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=8698"},"modified":"2009-10-13T20:17:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T02:17:19","slug":"creepy-comics-ride-the-dark-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/creepy-comics-ride-the-dark-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Creepy Comics Ride the Dark Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkhorse.com\/Comics\/Previews\/15-862?page=0\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/creepyMID-darkhorse.jpg\" alt=\"creepyMID-darkhorse\" title=\"creepyMID-darkhorse\" width=\"500\" height=\"768\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/creepyMID-darkhorse.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/creepyMID-darkhorse-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>Dark Horse Comics relaunched <em>Creepy<\/em>, a horror comics title, and we missed it.  BoingBoing has read it so we&#8217;ll let them do the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/10\/13\/creepy-horror-comic.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">setup<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;one of those titles that caused straight America to recoil in terror. <em>Creepy<\/em>&#8216;s short stories veered between morality plays in which some awful person did some terrible deed and received his comeuppance to unabashed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/10\/13\/creepy-horror-comic.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">straight-ahead horror in which terrible people did terrible things &#8212; often to other terrible people &#8212; and <em>got away with it<\/em><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bad people doing bad things to even worse people? We&#8217;re sold.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkhorse.com\/Comics\/Previews\/15-862?page=0\" class=\"external external_icon\">Creepy preview<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixeltube.com\/wmc\/sindex.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Classic Creepy comics covers<\/a>(featured in circa 1997 annoying flash format)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mad-monsters.com\/Magazines\/index.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Mad Monsters has covers of all types<\/a>(in non-annoying flash format)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/creepyuniverse.com\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Creepyuniverse.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OqiOb96Nvyo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x5d1719&#038;color2=0xcd311b\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OqiOb96Nvyo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x5d1719&#038;color2=0xcd311b\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/div>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/10\/13\/creepy-horror-comic.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">boingboing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkhorse.com\/Comics\/15-862\/Creepy-Comics-1\" class=\"external external_icon\">dark horse comics<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark Horse Comics relaunched Creepy, a horror comics title, and we missed it. BoingBoing has read it so we&#8217;ll let them do the setup: &#8230;one of those titles that caused straight America to recoil in terror. Creepy&#8216;s short stories veered between morality plays in which some awful person did some terrible deed and received his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,48,57],"tags":[1598,552,1630,1629,1582,564,1589],"class_list":["post-8698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-holiday","category-trailers","tag-classic-horror","tag-comic-covers","tag-creepy-comics","tag-dark-horse","tag-halloween-2009","tag-horror-comic-book-news","tag-the-31-posts-of-halloween-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}