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The bookstore I worked at got several Tabbo volumes in. The contents were a mixed bag. The Gaiman and Moore entries (Lost Girls!) the usual brilliant standard. The related stories of some printers refusing to print Taboo based on the shocking story content was actually more interesting than the supposedly shocking stories themselves. Overall, neat to get a chance to take a look at pieces of comic book history.
I don't know why I didn't put 5 stars for this....I really don't. Amazing collection of talent.
This was the first issue of an amazingly great comics magazine, something like semiannual, edited and published by Steve Bissette.Its focus was horror, broadly drawn, a genre i only like in comics, only when well done. These were really well done.Soon - I can't remember if it began in first issue or second - the serialization and original publication of From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell began to appear, here, a chapter at a time.Highly recommended.
A few obvious pieces, but overall a first rate horror anthology comic. Throat Sprockets by Tim Lucas & Mike Hoffman, Contagious by Charles Burns and Tooth Decay by Tom Sniegoski & Mike Hoffman (again) were my favourites. Come On Down by Alan Moore & Bill Wray is basically a Future Shock, and shows the limitations of Moore’s short-form writing. The only piece I strongly disliked was the Keith Giffen story, which was cheap misogyny as we often get from him. Even the S. Clay Wilson story was entert...
A landmark anthology, although now it seems perhaps a bit more subdued than I recalled from when I first read it about 20 years ago. Bissette's cover and short story are probably the most "taboo" pieces in the book (other than the non-story illustrations), and they still stand strong. The two-page story by S. Clay Wilson is notable mostly for its lack of his usual sex and gore, but I think it's actually two of his best-drawn pages. The Alan Moore rarity "Come on Down" is hardly Moore's best, but...
Rereading May 2020.Not surprisingly, this seems less "taboo" today than 30 years ago. But many of the pieces have surprising arcs and memorable artwork. Alan Moore's "Come on Down" is pretty different from what I remember of his work of the time. Mike Hoffman's detailed art, with the lovely shadows and texturing, is in "Tooth Decay" (so-so story) and the first installment of Tim Lucas' "Throat Sprockets". "Sprockets" is somewhat legendary these days in horror comic circles, and still works its u...
