COUNTDOWN TO HALLOWEEN (Day 9): AND NOW A BRIEF WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR...

You know how, when on a Halloween of trick-or-treating, you'd come across the house that had left the porch light on even though they weren't home at the time?

How they'd leave a bowl of candy out for the taking by any group of kids who would come by?  How they may have left a note reading something to the effect of how the reader should only take one piece of candy?

Well, I'm doing that tonight.

I'm going to trust you rambunctious kids to do the right thing.

Leave some for the next kid...

HULK SMASH CANDY HOG!!!

I'll be back tomorrow night with more in my

Countdown of Horror Hosts as my part of the

COUNTDOWN TO HALLOWEEN!

For now I leave you with this series

of images to haunt your nightmares

and confound your dreams:

SEVENTH SKETCH of a SEVENTH SKETCH

Seven more sketches and in about a day's time--I might post more this month than any other month this year!

This one is not so much a sketch as an partially inked version of the drawing below it--

for a better look give it a click and watch it blow up real good!

Sketch of the above--the plan is to have HB in a footprint of a big ol' monster in the Godzilla mold, perhaps the King of the Monsters himself!

The below is a shot of HB entering a dark attic, gun drawn, aware that danger awaited!

Really just wanted to draw an old-school version of the Hulk as I like to see him...

The Herculoids' Igoo, everybody, throwing his rock-like poo!

Hornhead hovers over an alley, stalking prey in his Kitchen.

Ahnold's version of the cybernetic killing machine (my interpretaion anyway)/

THE COUNTDOWN TO HALLOWEEN: DAY 27

(The Dracula Versus)

Anytime you're the heavy and Dracula is one of the baddest of the bad,

you're going to come into conflict with nearly everyone you meet.

They've got blood, you eat blood, there's the rub...

To that end, I've compiled a large collection of images depicting the Lord of Vampires in conflict with other characters in book, film, television and comic books.

Have a look...

Possibly the worst film ever made of the potentially greatest story concept!  Sadly this is one of Lon Chaney, Jr.'s last films.  It's so bad, it's almost watchable.

Not a bad story for a very off-beat idea--one to watch if given the chance one day.

I wish I could say I've seen this one, but I'm honestly not even sure if it exists or some fan made this thing up as a joke.

Which is the case with the above "poster"--one well worth a look if it did exist!

Dracula beats up everybody!

Drac and Frankie have to team-up to take on the man of steel!

Mr. T--'Nuff said!

The green-skinned Hulk vs white-face Dracula! 

Zorro prepares to take down the Prince of Darkness!

Vlad vs Arthur for all the marbles!

Dracula doesn't like this particular child of the night!

I think it's because Chris Claremont liked Dracula that he showed up a few different times during his long run as X-writer X-traordinaire!

The two above show how it is attractive to pit such a heroic character as Holmes against such a dark one. 

Don't know how the battle comes out, but it sure looks promising!

Mr. Colan was  probably asked to draw this strange crossover and Mr. Palmer was called in to ink!

I expect more trouble between these two...

Ah, here we go!  Mr. Frank Frazetta's painting of Dracula battling the Wolf-Man! 

Hard to believe there was a two issue arc in the pages of THOR just before Mr. Simonson did is legendary run in which Dracula bites Sif and has enhanced power because of it.  Never fear, as Thor soon shows up, properly outraged, and battles the blood-sucking fiend until he has to retreat into the darkness from whence he sprang!

Much like the tales of Mephisto versus Norrin Radd, this one seems more high-brow than most battle issues!

Immortal mutant versus immortal vampire--my money's on Vlad.

These two are natural enemies and often come into conflict--

it's a tough road to hoe for Stephen Strange!

Here we have two stories that mix the mafia with monsters!

Sadly, the Dracula depicted in Buffy was a joke compared to the vast majority depicted in the media usually.

Bad idea for Superman to attempt to take down Dracula without some help from Zatanna!

As is always the case, if you exist in pop culture, sooner or later you will meet Batman!

A quick programming note to all my readers...

on TCM today, Sun. Oct. 27:

2pm -- THE BAD SEED

4:15pm -- CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED

6pm -- THEM!

1am -- THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

3am -- DIABOLIQUE

And this time we end our little get-together with...

Neil Young's very political...

VAMPIRE BLUES

GETTING BACK ON THE HORSE

Well here I go again coming back from a hiatus that I hadn't intended.

Oh, I've been busy with Outcast Studios--trying to help keep it up and running as the forum seems to have lost some of it's finest regulars.  Drawing the occasional thing here or there, but nothing consistent or challenging enough to give back any returns in improvement to my skills or whatever.

But that's about to change!  Or so I hope.

I'll be up to my old tricks with a few commissions I've been postponing and that should lead me back to the path of improvement again.

We'll see, well, I'll see and if it's any good at all I'll certainly share it with you good people here.

In the meantime, a bunch of stuff I think will be new here:

Hulk VS Blackbolt for all the Marvels

Bucky shooting up the joint as Winter Soldier

Rose Red being romanced by Boy Blue (and they don't just call him blue because he's sad)

The Inhumans' elemental lass Crystal...

And a digital sketch of Dan Simmons' The Shrike or at least how I pictured him this time around.

Well that's all for now,

so don't be a stranger and I'll try to be even more strange than usual...