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WELCOME WINTER 2024/2025 (12/21)

 

SO LONG, JILL JACOBSON

To Al Adamson fans, you're the possessed and murderous Nurse Sherri, and among related, horror/thriller/fantasy entries, you're noted for Restless Souls, Excess Flesh, Perfect Victims, The Jigsaw Murders, Visage, Last Look, House of Usher (2008), Freddy's Nightmares, Ghost Whisperer, Splash, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Fox's War of the Worlds and the original Quantum Leap.  

Fans also relish your long stint on Falcon Crest (as Erin Jones), as well as your appearances on The New Gidget (as Larue Wilson), Who's the Boss?, Party Down, Sledge Hammer!, Arliss, Castle, Newhart, Hung, Strong Medicine, Crazy Like a Fox, Uncle Buck, My Sister Sam, Murphy Brown, The Devlin Connection, The Circle (which you not only starred in, but produced), The Fix and Days of Our Lives.  

For your cinematic stretch, you complemented Nurse Sherri with roles in Mic Whore (a short, which you wrote and produced), Harper Valley PTA, Policewoman Centerfold, Bad Georgia Road, Up Yours, Watch Out for Slick, Instinct to Kill, After the Storm, Leo and Laurie, Baby Sitter, Obsessive Love, An Uncommon Love and Forbidden Love. 

You were a multifarious actress, Ms. Jacobson, a unfeigned beauty and queen of disarming command, and because of such, you'll be remembered and missed with unbending fondness, uncommon reverence and most importantly, unabating bliss. 

SCARY MONSTERS #137: MAMMOTH TO MINATURE, CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

Scary Monsters #137 is a marvelous submission of colossal scale, matched by tiny (but no less impactful) terrors, packaged in warm, Christmas cheer, thanks to Scott Jackson's colorful, Gremlins-meets-Gorgo front cover, which is joined by an adoring, big-and-small, back collage.  

To commemorate the colorful cloaking, the "Mammoth to Miniature" submits (along with the aforementioned classics) such contrasting entries as King Kong 1976, The Amazing Colossal Man, War of the Colossal Beast, The Cyclops, Dr. Cyclops, Frankenstein Conquers the World, Attack of the Crab Monsters, Attack of the Puppet People, The Devil-Doll, Killer Crocodile, Alligator, Grizzly, The Black Scorpion and Empire of the Ants.

There's also a dandy article on the suave and sinister Vincent Price, plus those favorite, publication staples, "Kaiju Corner," "Trilogy of Terrors," "Strange Days" and the guffaw-bound Roomies from the Tomb. 

Don't miss out on this astounding, nostalgic, holiday compilation. Order at ...

https://www.mymoviemonsters.com/store.php/mymoviemonsters/pd10835043/_scary_monsters_137__mammoth_to_miniature_movie_monsters__preorder

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LARRY JOHNSON'S TALES OF THE BROKEN B #6: ENTER THE GYPSIES!

Writer/illustrator Larry (Horseman) Johnson's all-color Tales from the Broken B #6 hits the scene, and the otherworldly intrigue is at an all-time high for our amiable, investigative protagonists, Clyde Brittle and Ernie Malone, as well as big-hearted foreman, Sam Gladstone.

In "The Gypsies," the Broken B receives a visit from Vorko and his auspicious band, in hopes of securing a business deal, but the nomads hold a secret, which lies with a medicinal lady named Mariska and her beautiful granddaughter, Delilah, whose husband was recently murdered.   

At its start, the tale captures the essence of an episode of The Waltons that I fancy, which sports the same name as Johnson's yarn, but in the case of Tales from Broken B, the gypsies are motivated by vengeance, relegating the story to the sort of rough-and-tumble yarns one might find on Bonanza, The Rifleman and Gunsmoke, though with a ghostly twist that matches the culminating impact of The Man-Thing's "Night of the Laughing Dead." To say the least, this one pulled me in and wouldn't let go. In fact, its plaintive aura still surrounds me. 

Trust me, folks, this is one to possess!

To order Tales of the Broken B #6, send $6.50 (PPD) via PayPal to LewBrown1@verizon.net. You'll be more than pleased that you did! 

HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13TH (BEST OF LUCK)