Spookshow International (Rob Zombie’s…)

    (MVCreations, 2003-2004)
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Your feelings about Rob Zombie and his film House of a Thousand Corpses will have a lot to do with how you deal with this one. (Full disclosure compels me to admit I found it to be a nihilistic exercise in human suffering.)

Either he knows not the ways of horror comics or just doesn’t care, because, with one exception, each of the stories here is To Be Continued, when they could’ve been wrapped up, given another page or two. And he has trouble expanding the protagonists beyond their movie roles. While Captain Spaulding makes for an effective horror comic host, it’s hard to care when Baby is about to killed by cultists (knowing she’d do far, far worse to them, given half a chance).

There are exactly two highlights here: a fairly funny Masked Mexican Wrestler comic called “El Superbeasto” and rare pencils by Gene Colan. But it fails to answer the central question: What, besides hyperbole, makes this, in any way, “international”?

— S.A. Bennett
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  • 1
    #1
    Oct 2003
    Cover: $3.50
    W: Rob Zombie  ·  A: Gene Colan, Eddy Barrows, Kieron Dwyer, Will Conrad
    2 copies from $58.00
  • 2
    #2
    Dec 2003
    Cover: $3.50
    W: Rob Zombie
    2 copies from $26.00
  • 2-2
    #2 - 2nd printing
    Cover: $3.50
    W: Rob Zombie
    Published by MVCreations
    1 copy for $39.95
  • 3
    #3
    Jan 2004
    Cover: $3.50
    W: Rob Zombie
    5 copies from $7.99
  • 4
    #4
    Jan 2004
    Cover: $3.50
    W: Rob Zombie  ·  A: Pat Boutin, Kieron Dwyer, Miguel Montenegro
    Begin publishing by MVCreations
    2 copies from $17.00
  • 5
    #5
    Feb 2004
    Cover: $2.95
    W: Rob Zombie
    3 copies from $7.99
  • 6
    #6
    Mar 2004
    Cover: $2.95
    W: Rob Zombie  ·  A: Matt Tyree, Kieron Dwyer, Fabio Laguna, Pat Boutin
    3 copies from $7.50
  • 7
    #7
    Apr 2004
    Cover: $2.95
    W: Rob Zombie  ·  A: Matt Tyree, E.J. Su, Fabio Laguna, Pat Boutin, Kieron Dwyer, Diógenes Neves
    Nudity
    3 copies from $9.50
  • 8
    #8
    May 2004
    Cover: $2.95
    W: Rob Zombie  ·  A: Fabio Laguna, Matt Tyree, E.J. Su, Pat Boutin, Kieron Dwyer
    2 copies from $26.00
  • 9
    #9
    Man and woman in front of mansion cover by Fabio Laguna
    Jul 2004
    Cover: $2.95
    W: Rob Zombie  ·  A: Fabio Laguna, Matt Tyree, E.J. Su, Pat Boutin
    3 copies from $32.00
  • 9/B
    #9 Variation B
    People battling giant crab on Cover B by E.J. Su
    Jul 2004
    W: Rob Zombie  ·  A: Fabio Laguna, Matt Tyree, E.J. Su, Pat Boutin
    1 copy for $116.00
  • 9/C
    #9 Variation C
    Wizard World Chicago-Con 2004 Cover C by Tony Moore
    Jul 2004
    W: Rob Zombie  ·  A: Fabio Laguna, Matt Tyree, E.J. Su, Pat Boutin
    1 copy for $75.00