Into the Weird: Where Strange Tales Assemble

  Greetings, fellow weirdos and wanderers of the bizarre! Welcome to another mind-bending issue of Strange Ruminations, where we visit the quirkiest corners of the imagination. This week, we're serving up a smorgasbord of delights that'll tickle your synapses and leave you salivating for more. First up, our Recent News Roundup is hotter than Johnny Storm’s OnlyFans page, featuring the bromantic return of Deadpool and Wolverine , Netflix's dreamy plans for The Sandman , and the unstoppable box office rampage of Alien: Romulus . Next, we're shining our Artist Spotlight on the incomparable Peach Momoko , whose ethereal watercolors are redefining comic book art as we know it. Trust us, your eyeballs will thank you. MOKF art by Paul Gulacy Feeling nostalgic? Harness your chi as we unpack the martial arts classic Master of Kung Fu #114 : "A Fantasy of the Autumn Moon," just in time to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival. It's an action-filled masterpiece that'll h...

 I was looking through my comic collection the other day when I came upon six trades collecting Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing from the 1980's. I took all of them off the shelf, browsed through them, and again realized that what I held in my hands were undoubtedly the greatest comics of all time (This invariably happens every time I reread the run). Swampy has long been one of my favorite characters, and Moore my favorite writer, but I hadn't read these comics in years, and after all the stuff I've read since then I now find myself in a more informed state of mind to actually make this bold statement: Moore's run on the title should be heralded as the second coming in comics...not his WATCHMEN or Frank Miller's DARK KNIGHT RETURNS. Swamp Thing was where it all began; not just my personal opinion, mind you, but also that of several knowledgeable swamp-obsessed comic book mates I've corresponded with during the last few decades. Exactly how can I justify the ...

You know that feeling when you stumble upon something that simultaneously terrifies and fascinates you? That's exactly how I felt when I first encountered "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons" in 2017. Yes, you read that right - 2017. I was born in 1977, so I missed the original airing by a good decade. But even on DVD, this wasn't your average puppet show. This was a sci-fi thriller that had me, a grown adult, peeking through my fingers and begging for more. The Day I Discovered Puppets Could Be Serious So it's 2017, and I'm browsing through a second-hand DVD store. I stumble upon this box set with some seriously cool retro artwork. "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons," it says. I vaguely remember hearing about it, so I decide to give it a shot. Little did I know I was about to be catapulted back to 1967, into a world where Gerry Anderson, the puppet master behind hits like "Thunderbirds," decided it was time to push the envelope. As I popped...