DON'T KNOW WHY BUT I'M UP FOR HORRORFFIC THURSDAYS

Hello comic loving and horror fans alike,                                                                                            Tonight I am going to really ready to give myself something of a short but striking bit of a true introduction to one of character that I know at least a little about. Here is what I am trying to scare myself with, 

  here in great reading sofa with my cohort of  comic crime reading Spidey showing off what we are capable of being a smashing to maybe a silly review or a serious one! Who really knows? So here's a lot of questions that will impress me as well as you my reading audience... and we will cover THE DARKNESS volume II eventually if not this time very soon after this one the only thing that I will absolutely know about THE DARKNESS volume II is that last week I picked it up along with another oversized comic that is actually the whole nineteen nineties storyline and returning from the dead... Death Of Superman at of course, Adventures!                                                                                                               My overall understanding of the character known as Vampirella goes way back to when I was still a teenager. We, our family were living in Gaithersburg, Maryland at the time I was attending Wooton high school and it was my first year in a new environment.  While throughout that whole year of nineteen eighty eight I was able to meet a nice teenager named Chan he was a few years older than me. We really had found a common connection as friends besides being in a few classes together. One time over my many visits to his home I was able to see that someone was a big fan of comic books like I was starting again to be one myself from when I was a little guy. Anyway it turns out that they had some magazine sized comics with a woman in a eye catching red suit on the covers, the insides of these comics were Black and White,  which in later years I would come to find that I really appreciate what the creators do to sell their products.                                             Vampirella had her starting in September, nineteen sixty nine by comic writer Forrester J. Ackerman and comic illustratior Trina Robbins designed the character's             iconic Red suit. 

Now let's get this review of these current Vampirella comics started, we will start with Vampirella Hollywood Horror the trade that Spider-Man has in his lap. It's a six issue storyline that was published in twenty,  sixteen it was written by Kate Leth and is drawn by comic artist Eman Casallos,  with cover for the trade is by Jenny Frison who is currently doing a variety of variations of Decetevice Comics characters covers.

        In it's opening Hollywood Horror has an actress heading to work outside of Santa Clarita, California to her current production, where she meets the casting director Slade and the filming begins of a scene. Meanwhile in the hills of Hollywood we see that Vampirella and her friend Tristan and her chauffer Coleridge arrive at their new manison that Coleridge found through an offer on Craigslist. When Vampirella and Tristan are just getting ready to rest for the night 

they have a very unexpected guest break upon them. Vampirella chases the guest off of her private property.  When she tries to find out who the guest is he simply designated,  but she finds a calling card with the casting director from earlier. The next morning she and Tristan arrive in Hollywood to find a bit of help from an investigator in finding out who Slade is?                                                                                                                                                  Vampirella and Tristan use the help of the investigator who is named Ms Court by having her interview the alien from the planet known as Drakulon. One of the many attending adording fans during the interview is dressed very similar to the way of Vampi's mysterious guest from the night before and for whatever reason Vampirella attacks the fan. We as the comic reader, find out at the same time the casting director Slade seems to be trying use her own investigator to finding Vampirella!                                     Eventually both Slade and Vampirella meet up and have a huge battle to the death... by the fifth arc in this tale. Then the sixth part of this series seems at it's end to just be tacked on as Vampirella finding out on Halloween night that she has a particular new favorite love interests who happens to use her as his guardian while he goes trick or treating!              Overall this for my very first of reading of a Vampirella story is both very interesting to seeing how the character is good at being a horror driven female that's always at her own crossroad of dealing with her foes. Yet at the same time this story at the very given time is very compressed of where it's headed. I am giving it as a grade C minus.                                         Now onward with the two other comics seen with Spider-Man of Vampirella's more current titles... we are going to review VAMPIRELLA FAIRY TALES which is on the left of my reading partner.  Here's a closer look at         

   the cover first! Vampirella has a wolf behind her and she seems to have a red cape besides her classic red suit alone. Then of course there are bats behind her as well, the illusion of the cover and the writer of the story inside are by Soo Lee.  The main illustrator for the story is Emiliana Pinna. Vampirella walks through some woods and a pack of wolves are tracking her. She come to a mysterious old woman who tells her about a werewolf that has been killing a lot of the villagers and the village remains constantly in fear. The old woman asks for Vampirella's help to hunt down the cursed creature with a basket of goodies.                                                                                                                                      She returns to the woods and waits for her target while drinking some wine. When her target attacks they stare each other down. For a brief moment each thinks they can honestly best the other.... and yes with both being their own creatures of habits they of course bite each other! But when Vampirella does it, she cuts it's head from the wolf's body. She returns to the old woman place in the village she had offered to help.  She warns the old woman that there are always dangerous dangers just outside any village before she goes looking for a ride out of this chaotic village... the arc ends with her meeting another old woman this one happens to be offering Vampirella some milk and cookies!                                                                                                                                                             As I was reading this story I had the very feeling that Vampirella was extremely ready for her take of being Red Riding Hood only without a doubt a bloody end was the result no matter what the find outcome is? This is a one shot as to if the other story will lead some where is anyone's real guess? For still not knowing much about the actual character of Vampirella herself,  I am willing to give Vampirella FAIRY TALES a ranking of a B plus,  again mostly for the art of the story.                                                                                                            Now for a review of the book that really has me thinking that Vampirella is just as important as both Spider-Man or Spawn or even as fascinating as Batman or even as cool as the horror hostess named Evlira who is portrayed by actress Cassandra Peterson.  Who happens to be having a couple of comic series appearing here soon. The book we are glancing at now is part of the current ongoing Vampirella title which is titled Vampirella year one! On the cover of my copy she happens to have a silver suit on instead of her regular red one, it's because the character is currently celebrating fifty three years of existence. The writer of this historical background of the super vampire heron is Christopher Priest, who has written for both Decetevice Comics and Marvel Comics as far back as nineteen eighty four of most of their main characters.  Christopher has been writing the Vampirella title since July of twenty, nineteen. The illustrator for Vampirella year one is Ergun GuNDuz.                                                                                                                               Like a whole lot of "year one" storylines, at Decetevice or Marvel comics are made to help both old or newer readers of any certain characters a current telling of said character's original origin... I happened to have on this blog a review of Frank Miller's Batman Year one. Vampirella year one's cover that I have is illustrated by Collette Turner and Dynamite press that releases has a complete listing of all of their alternative versions of this cover, which amounts to thrity six different covers. The story begins with Vampirella talking to a man who is unnamed, he has brought her enrichment nourishment and she is talking to her belly as she holds it. We learn of her own history on her home planet called Drakulon. We learn of Drakulon's governing system and much her mother is someone of great potential power in her own right! Also one other thing that we as readers learn is her nickname by her closest friend is Snoop.             My impression from reading this year one arc that's bound to truly grace anyone who  is  a true comics lover  is that because  of everything new is our/my luring hook to not  only love or like what it is your brain is devouring...( see what  it  is  that I did there?, with it actually being that the character I am conversing of is well a vampire, no less) is giving me the one who cares absolutely about comics is the thoughts to flow for those of us that are always full of reaching ideas in certain ways of being caring about being creative in our own hopeful ways. As to what grade do I give Vampirella Year One number one for a whole altogether is an A plus... As to my review of THE DARKNESS volume II so far I am only on chapter 2, out of a spanning story of crimes throughout New York in the mid nineteen nineties that have magical weapons for the two main protagonists involved.  It has altogether twenty six chapters in the tomb of that very trade. Till next time my friends and love ones, enjoy whatever you DO have reading wise that let your mind wonder into a whole world of challenging growth known as reading! 

Today is of course a National comic book character day of????

Hello All,                                                                                                                                                        Let me start off by saying that at the beginning of the earlier post of today titled "Hailing Frequencies are always recommended", where overall I went and did my utmost humbling best to paying respect to everyone's original communications officer of a science fiction series called Star Trek. Her name was Nichelle Nicholas she portrayed Luentiant commander Uhura, there was one thing on that entry that I forgot about in sharing about the fictional character and what that was is that until the Star Trek Trilogy of films by television and film director J.J. Abrams was it that Uhura got a first name. It is  Nyota. 

 Truly though I was wanting to start this very entry with why I have been using the color of RED over the last couple of years during the summer months... and I want more than anything to say it's not because of the weather being just so HOT. For myself I think that the main reasons I have been using this and other colors of RED is because the different colors of REDS make me feel that it gives myself energizing ideas throughout the mist of each day of the three months called sun screen protector time known as sizzling summer time.                                                                  Today's very late entry is about comics again,  this time I am going to be talking about of course my favorite one known as Spider-man yet really I am going to try my best to do this one as a general overview of Spider-man's lore without to much of my reasoning of what I know is going wrong with the character as a whole and the company that owns him. Way before even Spidey came along there were two other big sets of characters that are just as important as he is for the publisher called Marvel Comics. They are The Fantastic four seen here 

 and also at first a monster that was at first grey in color, but was after his first appearance in his own title       

of The Incredible Hulk. These characters were illustrated by Jack Kirby and scribed by Stan Lee. The Hulk's color went from Grey to Green and was then given a chance to appear in another Marvel comic title "Tales to Asontish" starting with issue sixy.  Which was a full year and half after his six issue main series that started originally in April of nineteen sixty two with a May cover date. When the issue of Tales to Asontish with his first appearance was released in September of nineteen sixty four with a cover date of October #60. Speaking of sixty that is how old the characters of Bruce Banner and Peter Parker are, who are those given names your probably wondering well those are the civilian selves of Spider-Man and the Jolly Green monster known as the Hulk. So the Hulk's actual anniversary owned month is the other "A lettered month" of the year,  called April.                                                                                                                                              Before you ask how I am hoping to celebrate the month of Spider-Man besides reading his adventures in his comics that I am going to devote the rest of my main free time to besides other comics as well, I'm wondering do you at all are you knowing of the anniversaries of Decetevice Comics super heroes? That are legacy characters like the Marvel ones that I have mentioned so far...                                                                                      Here they are from the likes of how I listed the Marvel ones on their popularity, for the oldest running comic book superhero that everyone without any doubt has knowledge of is the fellow whose motto is "T.J.A.T.A." maybe his animosity of his motto might be to admittingly hard on our brains when D.C. is trying to convince us the character needs to be modernized to fit our world as it is now. I am of course talking about the guy seen here from the Max Fletcher cartoon series of the character's 

  name. Simply known as Superman. He is eighty four years old as of this very writing . His celebration month is April with a cover date on Action Comics #1 June, nineteen thirty eight.  The other Decetevic Comics character that is equally the equivalent of Superman and has currently too many different comic titles it makes even my noggin spin worse than a plastic toy top is of course... is the guy 

            seen here. He is known as Batman, his celebration month is also April.  His first comic appearance was in Decetevice Comics # 27 that came out in May/June of nineteen thirty nine with a cover dated of  May,  So Bats and Sups are just a full year apart in their anniversaries celebrations.  The Third major comic character from Decetevice Comics is a female an is known as     

Yes you guessed right on who that female character is if you say Wonder Woman. Whose first appearance was in "All Star comics # eight, with a cover date of Dec/Jan, nineteen forty one.  It was released in October of that year so Wonder Woman's celebration month is October. The first Decetevice Comics team book that the Justice League appeared in was The Brave and the Bold issue # twenty eight cover dated March,nineteen sixty.  It was originally released in February of that year, so The Justice League * (which are known to most children as the superfriends from the nineteen seventies), celebration month is February and are sixty two years old. And the reason why the Fantastic Four were created in October, nineteen, sixty one with their first issue cover date being November in the upper left corner box. They are celebrating sixty one years this very year.                         Now as I am such a huge fan of the webspiner one of Spider-man's many nick names, besides doing a lot of reading of his monthly comic adventures,  I am thinking of watching the classic sixty seven cartoon series on DVD. His movies from the early two thousands, and  come up with my own stories to share here on this site. An finally if I can find some much needed time I will definitely be getting around to illustrating him if I honestly can find the time. Happy this 

guy day to all of... no more like Happy Spidey month to all of his many fans young and old alike! 

                                                     

Hailing Frequencies are always recommended.....

Hello to All crews of exploration of everything and crews with imaginations that are full of loss always as well.....                                                                                                                                            Maybe the reason of why of late that I have been so focused on my writings of my blog posts have been showing up in a regardless colors that are in RED will most certainly be carefully explained. While I was working on my entry about talking of the passage of Tony Dow also known as Wally Cleaver on the nineteen fifties to early nineteen sixties television series called "Leave It To Beaver ", while watching the Memeroial Entertainment Television marathon which included "Wally's new Job". Here's a few scenes                                  

                                                           

                                                                                                              , from that very episode. During one of the many comicreal breaks over the course of the ten episodes shown I had gotten to see that as I had said at it's end of yesterday post someone else had went to their heavenly home of existence, and if you're in need of what series the one who did pass was a part of  here is their station on a very famous spaceship.                                                                                                               

                         Up above is her place on the bridge of the N.C.C. 1701 constitution class of the earth spaceship known as the Enterprise. So before I get to who it is that passed away yesterday I will give you a run down of the original series characters that have entered into the energizing bridge of heaven with a quote from the character famous related line of dialogue. Believe you me, I am going to make this part very both interesting and worth coming back for, for every actor from a certain television or movie that I have cherished.  So the first line of dialogue that I am giving  is "There comes a time when a man finds that he can't fall in love again....He knows that it's time to stop. I don't belong on your ship....I belong on this one. This was my home. This is where I had a purpose. " It is on the holo deck and is said to Jean Luc Picard. The person who says this is James Doohan as ????                                                                                   

                                                                                  Here is another quote by Doohan's character from his character in the voyage home the fourth movie of the original Star Trek movies "Admiral, there be whales here!"  He went join his other cast member whom I will be talking about next, Doohan left earth on July 20, 2005. He was eighty five years of age. Now on to the first original series cast member that has passed, but first here's a few lines of his character dialogue "It seems Admiral, that I have all of his marbles." And of course when this very character portrayed by DeForest Kelley was an Admiral himself " I don't see no points on your ears, boy, but you sound like a Vulcan. " "No, sir. I am an android." " Almost as bad." From Star Trek TNG polit "Encounter at Farpoint."                                                                                                                       

                                                                                     Or his character's best line of the original series "I'm a Doctor not an...." DeForest Kelley left earth on June 11, 1999. He was seventy nine years of age. For those wondering who was more recent passing of this bridge officer that passed is without any doubt, of the original Star Trek series most famous character of all them was of course the character portrayed by Leonard need I say his last name? Well here's some of his character's dialogue that your may know of... "Well, we found a whole world of minds that work just like yours: logical,  unemotional,  completely pragmatic. And we poor irrational humans whipped them in a fair fight. Now you'll find yourself back among us illogical humans again." "Which I find eminently satisfactory, Doctor.  For nowhere am I so desperately needed as among a shipload of illogical humans."  Or going with his character's Next Gen appearance in "Unification" two parter that was made to honor the creator of all Star Trek Gene Roddenberry.  Here's that very bit of dialogue "In your own way, you are as stubborn as another captain of the Enterprise I once knew. " Then I am in good company, sir."                                                         

Then of course there is Leonard's character most well noted bit of dialogue that even any non star trek fan does know "Live Long And Prosper."                                                                       Of course who we are really talking about today is the Young lady who sat behind Kirk on the bridge at the communications station, called Uhura portrayed by Nichelle Nicholas.  Whose character according to Gene Roddenberry her name means freedom. Before she was cast as Uhura on Star Trek she was a singer and dancer in her very early twenties and was touring with bands lead by Duke Ellenton and Lionel Hamilton. She caught the eye of Huge Hefner when she was playing a fictional character based off of lose adaption of his famous magazine,  while living in Chicago. Two years before Star Trek was ever thought about by Gene Roddenberry she starred in his police drama television show called "The Lieutenant" in the episode titled "To Set It Right" which had dealt with racial prejudice. That very same episode starred Don Marshall who would later play in Star Trek's first season episode "The Galileo Seven". Her character in "To Set It Right"     

           was named Norma Bartlett.                                                                                                        Nichelle's character of Uhura first appeared in the episode titled "The Corbomite Maneuver" it was also the only time her character's uniform was command yellow like Kirk's usually is through out the series. 

 Expect for when he wore his alternate  green tunic one from time to time as well. Her normal one after Uhura's first episode was mainly Red for the remainder of the series. Nichelle throughout the course of the first season of Star Trek had very strong improvement of something that she was very unaware of?, what was that your are thinking of that she did that she didn't know of or as I phrased  it as unawareness of... 

    At the same time of when the first season was in progress of being made there was in the Civil Rights movement that had started in nineteen fifty four, the movement's leader was                                                                     

                                                                                            the man seen here with Nichelle.  When these two met Martin Luther King Jr had told Nichelle of how her most recent work experience was the best way of showing that all people are capable of making is a solid foundation of both people of African-American decent and of other races being absolutely capable of making their dreams a reality. In fact here is a picture of their                                                                                                 

                            conversation with Nichelle as Uhura. After also voicing her concerns to Gene Roddenberry as well and hearing that he made up his fictional space crew of people of all diversities, because he was wanting to show the whole planet earth that everyone can really reach their greatest potential,  no matter what! Seeing that both men saw things as understanding common people,  She stayed on as Uhura from the next two seasons of the series. Nichelle got to have William Shanter share the very first interracial kiss 

 in the third season episode titled "Plato's  Stepchildren" *( more about this when I review STAR TREK the television series itself). Star Trek itself, was canceled on June third,  nineteen sixty nine.                                                                                                                                However anyone who is a Star Trek loyalists of the series knows that there was something called syndication. Which allowed any network in anywhere to play and replay the series over time and again and that of course had new fans grow out of it wanting more... Roddenberry was paying very close attention to that and he and his actors, and screenwriters put together after seeing the First STAR WARS film in nineteen seventy seven were hard at work on a new forum of Star Trek one way or another. They started out by trying to make another television series, but that overall plan would payoff in a whole multitude of new ways... in the meantime the animation company of Filmation came to Roddenberry and offered him a cartoon series as long as all of the actual actors were willing to voice their characters and all but Leonard Nimoy were willing to do it at first. In fact here is the animated cel of  Uhura 

 with Nichelle as Uhura, the animated series put the owners of Star Trek franchise ready for Star Trek the motion picture. Even when Nichelle wasn't working on fictional space in the nineteen seventies she was busy helping the ongoing real life space exploration known as NASA. The  re-release of the animation series after the motion picture was released increased even more new fans to the fantastic space operatic saga known as Trek. What then followed were five more feature films and in late nineteen eighty seven a new version of Trek was forever forged into place.                                                                     I almost forgot to mention that Nichelle was born Grace Dell Nicholas in Robbins,  Illinois in nineteen thirty two. And has been one the best communications of keeping not only Star Trek going for close to fifty six years... She found time to have a family as well.           Is there something that I am of course forgetting over this long goodbye to a great woman who died at eighty nine of heart failure in Silver city,  New Mexico just two days ago on July thirty, twenty,  twenty two. Well yes there's the reason I have been writing in RED most of this summer don't worry all will be explained later tonight in another post for August first? Yes your getting two for the price of one today! 
 

A TRIBUTE TO TONY DOW...

Hello everyone,                                                                                                                                            Usually when one thinks of a person's passing it really affects them weather they are famous or family, when it is family without any doubt it is absolutely a lot more personal and emotionally feeling wise because of how connected you are to your family member that has left for their existence here on planet earth is done or at least complete. Earlier last week Tony Dow had went home to be with his fellow actors Hugh Bueamount who was his father Ward Cleaver and his television mom Barbara Billingsley June Cleaver,  Ken Osmond, Eddie Hasskell his best friend in the series that they all shared with child star Jerry Mathers Theodore Cleaver who goes by the name of "Beaver" in "Leave It to Beaver". Here's a photo of 

       the main family.  The series was created by Bob Mosher and Joe Conelly and was mostly based off their childhood memories. The series started on CBS television for it's first season  which had this 

   as the series opening title page in nineteen fifty seven, when at the end of nineteen fifty eight television renewals the show moved to the ABC network for it next five years of it run. Tony's character was show cased on M.E.T.V. from noon till five pm and the episode that is currently airring is "Wally's new suit". Here are some scenes 

from that very episode.  They had nine other Wally central episodes that celebrated both the character and the Tony himself.   

 I will admit right now that I didn't know that Mr. Dow was officially on his last bit of life anymore than most of the world knew of it. I only remember just a couple of days before he had entered his heavenly existence that the whole world knew it was coming because this past Wednesday the internet explosion of his passing was on every media site without knowing if it was truly confirmed. I really remember watching "Leave It to Beaver" while visiting with my mom's parents and her side of the family over our family vacations to Clomibus, Georgia... it's and really the Twilight Zone were my most likeable series of most of the nineteen fifties era of the boom of the early days of television. Of I will admit that I like the Lone Ranger series that was in Black and White as well, as Blondie. (Yes back in the beginning of Television they tried every form of comic media even in those days). Blondie is of course a newspaper daily comic strip that began in the month of September 

 , in nineteen thirty.  I happen to be getting off track here, but eventually I will post about my understanding of that given newspaper strip and hopefully before the year is out, so I can write it while I'm in my fiftive year of existence.                                                                      Back to the topic at hand of the life and respect of Tony Dow, after Leave It to Beaver had ended nineteen sixty three he started guest staring  roles on television series of "My Three sons",  "Adam-12", "Emergency!", "Knight Rider" of series that I really know of.  In the mid nineteen eighties he reprised his role of Wally Cleaver in "STILL THE BEAVER". Which ran from nineteen eighty five through to nineteen eighty nine. It had a television movie in nineteen eighty three that started the series, and it was dedicated to Hugh Bueamount who played the dad  Ward Cleaver in the original series. Who had passed away on May fourteenth, nineteen eighty two.                                                                                In the end of nineteen eighty nine slash early nineteen nineties Tony had went from being a livelihood of a actor to branching his creative mind to be behind the cameras. He started with an episode of the new Lassie show near it's end of a single season series, and while directing other episodes of various series he was learning on visual effects while working on Babylon five as a director as well. (One other quick note of late I Matt, have been opening up to lately on YouTube of looking into Babylon five at least a little bit of late). He was the visual supervisor on the Doctor Who television movie that was released in nineteen ninety six.   

He was born in nineteen thirty four, on April thirteenth, in a Hollywood on the outskirts of Los Angeles California to Muriel Virginia and John Dow.  Before he was discovered by  a talent scout Tony was training to make it as a swimmer in the Junior Olympics for his upcoming career  in his real life high school.  In May of twenty, twenty one he was diagnosed with liver cancer and as far as I know that is what was his cause of death! His death happen on July twenty seventh,  twenty, twenty two...  he was just a young age of seventy- seven. Finally before I leave you here is Tony and Jerry as their classic brotherly sevles                                                                 

Wally and Theodore Cleaver. Then while watching this very Tribute to Mister Dow on M.E.T.V. I had found out that just today another celebrity passed away into science fiction heaven... who is it? All I can say is that tomorrow I will have at least two posts coming is all that I will say for right now!
  

A hopeful Indie comic ends....

 Hello Comic lovers,                                                                                                                                      Well my genuinely all the time readers who love a small entry instead of my super longer ones that go on for ever you are in for a treat! Today for the next sixteen hours according to Eastern Standard Time you have a chance to help a independent comic creator named Shane Davis and his wife Yanzi Lin by getting YOUR CHANCE TO GET THEIR COMIC Project called Inglorious Rex.  Here's where you need to look for it if you're really interested? www.Indidiggo.com  

 Also one other reason that I like Shane Davis is because he lives in the state where I was born in North Carolina.  If you back the project at the $75.00 tier you'll get a second print of their first Indie comic project known as STARLIGHT CATS which is great for young children if they want something when you are thinking about your children too. Have a wonderful day rather if you buy this or not! It will end at 3:00 am/12:00am East Coast/Pacific's time.... 

A comic trade know as

Hello comic loving public and those in need of great fun at the end of the first month of Summer of twenty twenty two,                                                                                                               Well here I  am again with a generous rewarding effort to getting you my wondering and interesting readers who feel like you are missing something from the site of some fascinating works of wordplay I may have that's for you? Yes I am once again talking about books or in this case a set of individual stories that are in the trade known as what is shown in my couch with my Spider buddy   

seen here. I have to let you know that since as of October of last year, I have been part of a online community related to comics called Comic Book Corner 2.0 Web-Heads Unite. The site owner has a YouTube website where he talks of many different comic topics including weekly new releases. He has a combined site with a couple other friends who are interested in comics like he and I are,  and Tuesday night at 10pm Eastern Standard Time they reveal their thoughts on what they have currently read over the past week on a show called Comicbook Weekly also searchable on YouTube.  
                                  Well back when Decetevice Comics went and had started going and making all of their heroes being defined by each one's sexual preferences instead of them saving the world, the one book of DC comics that I reviewed was SUPERMAN SON OF KAL-EL number five last November was when I had picked up my introduction to The SLIVER COIN series with the issue   

seen here on my coffee table. It happens to be issue number seven.  I had picked these actually in early December of twenty,  twenty one. I will eventually get to those as soon as I get a chance to decide what it is that I know I want my comic reviews of 2021 to be listed as so anyone can just find it very easily.                                                                                                Now that I have given you a back history of how it all came about for yours truly of getting into "THE SLIVER COIN" series, I know that overall you would love to find out what my thoughts on it as a whole is?, of that I am certain of!  The Silver Coin series is very much an ongoing set of stories in the vein of "A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS" of the classic television series known as The Twilight Zone. I will eventually get around to making a review of Each Original episode of the zone but for right now let's flip into the first issue of this ongoing comic anthology.                                                                                      Here are the covers to issue one of the sliver coin   

 

, so why are there actually two variant to the first print you are asking? well that goes all the way back to the nineteen nineties when Decetevice Comics and Marvel comics realized to get the most versions of an important character's title to reach more masses of comic readers they would put out a slightly different image on that very venturous go around to sell the said book even more efficiently so. Then a month or two later they came out with a second print cover like the one seen here       

             for the silver coin. The title of the first story is "The Ticket" by Chip Zdardsky. It is about this upcoming band who is trying to make it big in their home town local bar. When one of the members finds the coin amongst the guitarist stuff that his mom had left him. The band starts getting a lot better overall.  The bar owner is able for them to get signed to a large recording studio. Then of course Ryan the guitarist, gets in over his head when he's feels forced into playing with the town's other local musicians known as "Disco Hits"     

 ,  that he without knowing it brings the house down on everyone in attendance.  The second  issue's story in this trade is known as "Girls of Summer" by Kelly Thompson.  In this one, a young girl named Fonia ends her upcoming end of summer by attending a summer camp. When she arrives she finds all of the other gals she's bucking with don't want to care about her, even when taking part in the camp activities they grind her to her emotional lowest.  When she finds a cabin in the woods she finds the coin in a sword and is attacked by a unknown person! Fonia finds that when she finds her so called friends were....     

 murdered! Was it Fonia whom did it? Maybe or Maybe not! But in these first two issues I have noticed something that I will get to at the end of this very entry.                                                                                                                             The third issue of The Silver Coin is by Ed Brisson and is titled "Death Rattle." Three teenagers named Victor,Bobby, and Lisa have just killed a old man in his own home while attempting to just rob him. As Lisa grabs a plaque with the man's name on it she hears a onimibus voice that freaks her out, she tells her friends of what she just heard and Bobby shares his knowledge of the after life, Lisa says it's nothing like that of what she can describe it as. Victor sets 

 

     the house on fire. 

Lisa, while with her friends tries to get away from the authorities has found the coin but doesn't want to believe that it is possibly controlling her...

In the next issue the title is numerous all the way around and is "2467". This arc is truly for fans of cyberspace or even blade runners vein of fun. Officer Colten Dudley is chasing a group of punks that are dealing with existence by knocking over citizens by dealing with them in a violent situation. One of those punks gets lost in the underground city and she finds the coin and upload it to devote a significant impact of getting her way with dealing with her personal law problems... It is scribbled or scrambled by Jeff Lemire!                                                                                                               The fifth and final issue of The Silver Coin trade is known as "Covenant". In this one a  woman named Rebekah Goode is an animal doctor around the fifteenth or possibly the sixteenth century and a priest whose a witch hunter  named Cotton Dudley.  Dudley convinces the whole village of where miss Goode resides that he can rid them of Goode because of him being able to bring authority of law to the village by his being their community leader to God. As to if  everyone in the whole village believes him isn't completely clear... when he tries to retrieve the Coin it has him facing Rebekah in the afterlife... it is penned to paper by Michael Walsh, who provided colors for each story of the series till this point.                                                                         So what is my overall opinion of this series called THE SLIVER COIN as a whole, well as I did mention earlier in this very post this series seems to be very much like the Twilight Zone from the late nineteen fifties.. where when you had gotten through a episode you didn't see a twist coming? The Silver Coin comic series has that given feel of that for anyone who has the Coin has mostly good things possibilities when they find it... but at some eventual point in that person's life and the people they know have very bad things end up occurring to all parties involved, especially to the very one who has it. I want to say that so far from what happens in each story so far I have noticed that all of them have a bird in them that might have a connection to the Coin and how it moves (Maybe or Maybe not through as Rod Serling would say in some opening narration of the Twilight Zone "You are traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight or sound but of mind: a Journey into a wonderous land  whose boundaries are that of imagination. Your next stop the Twilight Zone". Season four's opening by the way, is the closest to describing how the bird places the coin close to his sight. Speaking of sight it seems when the Coin is making a use of it's power it opens like this 

around the etched cross on the center of it. Does the coin posses someone specific that has a dark/ corrupt soul that feeds it existence who's to really know? This is a very interesting horror driven anthology format because each issue is written by a different comic writer every month. All that I can say is that because it has both violence in it and cursing in it as well, this series isn't for children under the age of evelen. As to what do I have as a grade for the series... a very high ranking of an A plus so far...
As to how did our other reviewer Spidey handle this overall, well maybe this might                                                             

                                          shed some light radioactive or otherwise on that very venturous question? 

While stuck in Idaho....