Eric Powell

And it is a hell of a movie.

So today we're going to be talking with Eric Powell, the creator of The Goon, and Steve Niles, the co-creator of 30 Days of Night, all about Richard Matheson.

I'm pretty excited about this one.

I don't know a ton about Matheson.

It is definitely more than a little weird.

All right, so we'll get back to Mathos in a second, but let's talk a little bit about today's guest.

Who is Mr. Eric Powell, Chris Simon?

Well, Eric Powell is a comics publisher, writer, and artist who has contributed work on such comics titles as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Hellboy Weird Tales, Star Wars Tales, The Incredible Hulk, Black Panther, The Avengers, The Hood, Mad Magazine, Devil Dinosaur, Swamp Thing, She-Hulk, The Simpsons, Arkham Asylum Living Hell, Action Comics, and Creepy.

It's stylistically.

It's, it's one of my, Eric Powell is one of my biggest influences.

Um, But just having a person to be like, hey, yeah, you don't need to.

You don't need to read superheroes.

This is the first I'm hearing about this.

It's written by Harold Schlechter and Eric Powell.

And it says you're going to be critically acclaimed, which I didn't know about.

Best-selling, never heard of it.

I never heard of this.

It's an interesting topic.

Eric Powell's involved.

It's got 48 pages for $24.99 coming out in February.

I have like read about the, the real life story that inspired this, uh, the Eddie Gein.

Um, there's a great comic, like, uh, do you know what ready Gein done by Eric Powell? That goes into like what happened.

And so I actually had that in the back of my mind watching this because knowing like where this is based and, you know, elements of reality, which is kind of crazy.

But this is a brand new watch for me.

Keeping in line with our October horror season, we are going to be playing for 2005's Monsters on the Prowl.

This is a one-shot by Stephen Niles and Duncan Fagrito and a cover by The Goon's Eric Powell.

And this is a riff.

The Monsters on the Prowl was an early 70s Marvel magazine with typical...

Also from Dark Horse this week, we had Hillbilly, The Treason of Twelve-Toe Maggie.

Issue number one, written and drawn by Eric Powell, with the, I guess, continuing the story of this hillbilly.

Have you read any of Hillbilly before? I

have not.

This is actually, um, [tongue click] uh, the same people printed the Rook's screen print has printed this.

This is Eric Powell's, uh, I think this was a Mondo screen print.

It's Mondo.

So I, I found out from Eric where he got these printed, and we did this beautiful, uh, Pawn on the Rook screen print.