Halloween Review — Witchcraft Through the Ages

Dry leaves shatter beneath footfall. The black cat crosses your path and the unseen shambler moves in shadows. Ahead at the crossroads you see the eerie light of cheap plastic novelties, pumpkin heads and smiling bones, foul green witches and boltnecked monstrosities. They hang in the window. You approach the videostore door. The goth girl stacks another late return back on the shelf and turns her eyes to Ginger Snaps on the in-store screen, the piercing scene. Halloween approaches, and you seek fresh bloody rentals, something to watch within while the plastic-masked werewolves bay without, horror while the corn pops and you crack open a Wychwood brew.

As the nights grow longer and the witching season falls upon us, the Bureaucrats (can you think of a scarier name for us?) of Bureau42 will be reviewing one seasonally-suited movie each day. Tonight, boys and ghouls, the ‘Shredder will play host, and we’ll wander back through the ages to 1922….

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Weekly Comics Discussion

Another week, another list of new
comics to tempt us. This week I succumb to
Daredevil #65 (Anniversary Edition),
Doctor Spectrum #2, and the Marvel 65th
Anniversary Edition. I will manage to resist
the new 2099 set of one-shots, the Daredevil/Elektra
edition of the Official Handbook to the Marvel
Universe 2004, the first issue of a new Adam
Strange miniseries, the first issue of a new
Catwoman miniseries, a new Superman: Man
of Tomorrow Archive edition, and probably resist
Green Lantern #181, which (if I’ve been
counting correctly) is the final issue of Kyle’s
Green Lantern career and the final issue of the
current Green Lantern series.