“I was down on my luck and I just started knocking on doors,” Bruce Campbell jokes about how he ended up writing Sgt. Rock vs. The Army of the Dead for DC Comics. “If you got any work at all, anything I can do, I’ll sell you sell your comics on the street corner.”
The beloved actor and cult legend isn’t being serious. The reality is that DC Horror editor Katie Kubert, coincidentally the granddaughter of Sgt. Rock’s legendary co-creator, reached out to him thinking he’d be a good fit to write a horror comic. But despite Campbell’s superhero-ready good looks, and all the ways he’s flirted with the genre on screen during his career, wasn’t a comics expert. After looking through a DC encyclopedia breaking down potential characters, he was immediately drawn to the badass World War II hero of Sgt. Rock.
The beloved actor and cult legend isn’t being serious. The reality is that DC Horror editor Katie Kubert, coincidentally the granddaughter of Sgt. Rock’s legendary co-creator, reached out to him thinking he’d be a good fit to write a horror comic. But despite Campbell’s superhero-ready good looks, and all the ways he’s flirted with the genre on screen during his career, wasn’t a comics expert. After looking through a DC encyclopedia breaking down potential characters, he was immediately drawn to the badass World War II hero of Sgt. Rock.
- 6/17/2022
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
Comics are Katie Kubert’s professional medium, but it’s the other kind of medium that’s perhaps as equally relevant to her current role as editor of the new DC Horror imprint.
As a child, Kubert recalls visiting the Tower of London with her family when, after a brief visit, her mother said, “I don’t want to be here anymore.”
You see, Kubert’s mom sees dead people. And, according to her daughter, she’s really good at it. So good she must have seen something at the historic landmark that unsettled her. So good she can even read a situation over the phone, and if her mom tells her to clear out of a situation — a haunted house, for instance —she’s going to listen.
While the spiritual gift of mediumship did not pass down to Kubert, she loves the idea of haunted houses, and haunted house attractions.
As a child, Kubert recalls visiting the Tower of London with her family when, after a brief visit, her mother said, “I don’t want to be here anymore.”
You see, Kubert’s mom sees dead people. And, according to her daughter, she’s really good at it. So good she must have seen something at the historic landmark that unsettled her. So good she can even read a situation over the phone, and if her mom tells her to clear out of a situation — a haunted house, for instance —she’s going to listen.
While the spiritual gift of mediumship did not pass down to Kubert, she loves the idea of haunted houses, and haunted house attractions.
- 10/3/2021
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
DC's horror imprint just announced Soul Plumber, a brand-new six-issue series from the hosts of Last Podcast on the Left!
Burbank, CA — July 14, 2021 — Finally, exorcism made easy in DC Horror Presents: Soul Plumber.
From Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski, and Ben Kissel, the hosts of "The Last Podcast On The Left," comes a new six-issue series that dives deep into the sewers of the human soul—also, there are demons.
Edgar Wiggins, a disgraced former seminary student, is desperate to find a way to answer what he believes is his higher calling. He thinks he’s found it in a seminar hosted in a hotel conference room by the Soul Plumbers, who have a machine that could be the secret to delivering souls from Satan. Edgar’s too broke to buy in, but that’s not enough to stop this true devotee: he steals the blueprints and builds a pirated version...
Burbank, CA — July 14, 2021 — Finally, exorcism made easy in DC Horror Presents: Soul Plumber.
From Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski, and Ben Kissel, the hosts of "The Last Podcast On The Left," comes a new six-issue series that dives deep into the sewers of the human soul—also, there are demons.
Edgar Wiggins, a disgraced former seminary student, is desperate to find a way to answer what he believes is his higher calling. He thinks he’s found it in a seminar hosted in a hotel conference room by the Soul Plumbers, who have a machine that could be the secret to delivering souls from Satan. Edgar’s too broke to buy in, but that’s not enough to stop this true devotee: he steals the blueprints and builds a pirated version...
- 7/14/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
It's safe to say that horror is alive and well at DC Comics. In addition to the spooky stories creeping across the paneled pages in the DC Black Label and Hill House Comics, DC has launched a new horror imprint today with the release of The Conjuring: The Lover #1.
A prelude to The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (which is being released in theaters and on HBO Max on June 4th—read Heather Wixson's review here), The Conjuring: The Lover is written by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and Rex Ogle and features eerily atmospheric artwork by Garry Brown, and with the first issue out now, Daily Dead had the pleasure of taking part in a virtual roundtable interview with David, Rex, and DC Comics Editor Katie Kubert to discuss expanding The Conjuring cinematic universe in comic book form, an ambitious idea that Katie helped make a reality.
"I'm a huge horror nerd,...
A prelude to The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (which is being released in theaters and on HBO Max on June 4th—read Heather Wixson's review here), The Conjuring: The Lover is written by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and Rex Ogle and features eerily atmospheric artwork by Garry Brown, and with the first issue out now, Daily Dead had the pleasure of taking part in a virtual roundtable interview with David, Rex, and DC Comics Editor Katie Kubert to discuss expanding The Conjuring cinematic universe in comic book form, an ambitious idea that Katie helped make a reality.
"I'm a huge horror nerd,...
- 6/1/2021
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
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