A MAGAZINE DESIGNED TO GIVE YOU - THE CREEPS...

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If you're a fan of WARREN mags CREEPY and EERIE,

then you'll be interested in this title I picked off the shelves of

my local FORBIDDEN PLANET store recently.  It's an excel-

lent 'tribute' magazine, but I feel it could be improved in a few

ways.  Let's get the 'minor' faults out of the way first.

The lettering.  Done by computer font, but that in itself

isn't the problem - it's the spacing.  When words are italicised,

any 'screamers' (exclamation marks) run into the first letter of

the next sentence, resulting in the balloons and captions having

a squashed appearance that is sore on the eyes.  A bigger space

needs to be left between sentences to avoid this.  Occasional

missing punctuation also detracts from smooth reading.

Not so minor - the plots.  The story, 'FAIR TRADE', in-

volves a mind swap between bodies by the method of sorcery.

(Spoiler alert.)  The process automatically reverses when the

sorcerer is killed before casting his next spell, which would've

'halted the physical transfer which naturally follows

any mental transfer'.  Think about that for a moment.

A sorcerer transfers one person's mind into the body

of another, but unless he casts a second spell, the body will

reunite with the transferred mind - rendering the initial spell

totally redundant.  H'mm, maybe the writer needs to put more

thought into his plots as the tale is too contrived to be convinc-

ing.  (If any tale involving sorcery and mind-transference can

ever be convincing, but I'm sure you get the point.)

Anyway, don't be put off by me being pernickety.  This

mag is like a time tunnel to the 1960s and '70s and is well

worth a look.  Available from your local FP and all good

comic shops.  Dig one up as soon as you can.

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