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Visit dark and twisted minds
By James Chambers – With Tales Of Ordinary Madness, Malcolm Bourne and Michael Allred take us down the dark and twisted paths of the human mind and into a world of people who dwell in their own personal realties, where even the most mundane activities can be a passage through Hell. With the experiences of several characters, they explore the nature of madness and its possible causes. Linked together by their nameless Doctor, each patient struggles to overcome illness and return to health, but even those working to help them are not immune. Each story offers an unsettling glimpse into these people’s lives and the establishment that is often helpless…
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DC’s combat legends team up
By James Chambers – It’s the height of World War II, and the Nazis have developed a weapon so devastating that nothing is safe from its deadly threat. Only the Unknown Soldier, the man of 1000 faces, can slip past the Germans’ veil of secrecy concerning the project and defuse the lethal forces set in motion. Can he stay alive long enough to succeed when his only allies are a woman who wants him dead and the wounded topkick of the legendary Easy Company? Robert Kanigher, a veteran comic book scripter and a veteran of war, crafts a fast-paced tale of intrigue and deceit as he follows the Unknown Soldier…
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Boris loves his ’50s comic books
By Boris Vallejo – I grew up in Lima, Peru, in the Roaring ’50s. At that time, in that country, the idea of television was almost science fiction. What did people do when they came back from work, you ask? What the heck did kids do when they returned home from school, you ponder? Well, people read. Kids read. I read. Books were my friends. All kinds of books. The classics, adventure, mystery, children’s books. And then there were comic books. I clearly remember my first contact with comic books. I had been in bed for a couple of days with the flu. My father came back from work with…
Fan site for the late, lamented Combo Magazine (1994-1997)
