Just finished the 1st two issues of American Gothic Press'
Monster World & really enjoyed this indie too.
It's written as a "Noir" book w/ the hero being a 1930's Private Detective named Henry Barrymore. He works in L.A. & is offered a movie studio case dealing w/ a missing studio head. "World Studios" substitutes for our Universal Studios and is in the process, like Universal, of saving themselves through the making of Monster Movies. Only ... as it turns out, the missing studio head cut some sort of deal w/ the devil whereby all the movie monsters turn out to be real. Appearing in short spurts to act in their own movies. Hard to wrangle a living monster so, of course, starlets are mauled, people are eaten, actors disappear, etc...
Writers Steve Niles & Philip Kim trie a little too hard w/ the noir-aspects (like they've only seen the Bogart stuff) but the art by Piotr Kowalski perfectly captures the 30's/40's & the monsters look straight off the Universal lot. If you like old monster movies, you should like
Monster World. -
