{"id":12728,"date":"2013-04-22T06:13:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T11:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=12728"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:00:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:00:08","slug":"glows-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/04\/22\/glows-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Glows in the Dark!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"COMICS-HEAD\"<\/a>\"GLows-in-the-dark-detail\"<\/a>It seems that everything old is new again.<\/p>\n

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I don’t necessarily mean the recent big screen movie version of Dark Shadows<\/strong><\/em> featuring baby-faced character actor Johnny Depp and arranged by stylist Tim Burton, but I’m thinking of Hemlock Grove<\/strong><\/em> which is a new horror series available through Netflix. Similar to the old Dark Shadows<\/strong><\/em> soap opera, it’s chock full of vampires, werewolves and melodrama. Unlike the old TV show, Hemlock Grove<\/strong><\/em> has a lavish production and effects budget and is in no way kid friendly. There’s no way that a company would produce products aimed at children based on the Netflix series.<\/p>\n

\"GLows-in-the-dark\"<\/a>This model kit ad appeared in Our Army At War<\/strong><\/em> Featuring Sargent Rock<\/strong> No 224 published by DC Comics back in 1970 when the show was still on the air.<\/p>\n

\"OAAW-224-1970\"<\/a>This was another war comic illustrated by the great Joe Kubert<\/strong><\/a> that my older brother bought, read and forgot about and has been in my collection ever since. As I said before this is the sort of comic that I cherish. There was always a well-worn stack of these at the barber shop that I would thumb through back when I had hair that could be cut into a boy’s regular haircut. <\/em>War comics are a thing of the past but they were huge back then in the wake of the box office success of The Dirty Dozen<\/strong><\/em> and Where Eagles Dare.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems that everything old is new again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[335],"tags":[795,359,312,726,9,2508,767,2509,3661,2510,23,402,186,724,336,640],"class_list":["post-12728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-abc","tag-ad","tag-comic","tag-comic-book","tag-comics","tag-dark-shadows","tag-dc-comics","tag-hemlock-grove","tag-illustration","tag-model-kit","tag-monster","tag-soap-opera","tag-television","tag-vampire","tag-vintage","tag-werewolf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-3ji","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40964,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/07\/20\/barnabas-dark-shadows-paperbacks\/","url_meta":{"origin":12728,"position":0},"title":"BARNABAS! 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