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

October, 2003
Cover Price: $3.50
3 copies available from $9.99 		Rob ZombieGene Colan, Eddy Barrows, Kieron Dwyer, Will Conrad
#2

December, 2003
Cover Price: $3.50
3 copies available from $7.99 		Rob Zombie 
#2 - 2nd printing


Cover Price: $3.50
1 copy available for $39.95 		Rob Zombie 
#3

January, 2004
Cover Price: $3.50
5 copies available from $7.99 		Rob Zombie 
#4

January, 2004
Cover Price: $3.50
2 copies available from $17.00 		Rob ZombiePat Boutin, Kieron Dwyer, Miguel Montenegro
#5

February, 2004
Cover Price: $2.95
3 copies available from $7.99 		Rob Zombie 
#6

March, 2004
Cover Price: $2.95
4 copies available from $4.99 		Rob ZombieMatt Tyree, Kieron Dwyer, Fabio Laguna, Pat Boutin
#7

April, 2004
Cover Price: $2.95
3 copies available from $9.50 		Rob ZombieMatt Tyree, E.J. Su, Fabio Laguna, Pat Boutin, Kieron Dwyer, Diógenes Neves
#8

May, 2004
Cover Price: $2.95
2 copies available from $26.00 		Rob ZombieFabio Laguna, Matt Tyree, E.J. Su, Pat Boutin, Kieron Dwyer
#9 (Man and woman in front of mansion cover by Fabio Laguna)

July, 2004
Cover Price: $2.95
3 copies available from $32.00 		Rob ZombieFabio Laguna, Matt Tyree, E.J. Su, Pat Boutin
#9 Variation B (People battling giant crab on Cover B by E.J. Su)

July, 2004
Cover Price: $0.00
1 copy available for $116.00 		Rob ZombieFabio Laguna, Matt Tyree, E.J. Su, Pat Boutin
#9 Variation C (Wizard World Chicago-Con 2004 Cover C by Tony Moore)

July, 2004
Cover Price: $0.00
1 copy available for $75.00 		Rob ZombieFabio Laguna, Matt Tyree, E.J. Su, Pat Boutin