Number 2430: The delightfully dumb

No kidding, I love the old ACG horror comics because so many of the stories are crazy. Comic books have never gone for much realism, anyway, but the ACG folks had a way of putting an even stranger spin on their strange storytelling.

In this story, which has ACG’s common use of lovers as the main characters, Nancy visits her boyfriend, Craig, head of a government facility under attack by what he calls “Space-spirits — inhabitants of the outer universe!” The “deadlings” are human corpses, animated by the space-spirits, looking a lot like our modern era’s walking dead characters in movies and television. At the end love conquers all with a sacrifice. There is a way of getting rid of the deadlings — and everything else, as well — with an atom bomb at their disposal. It would not be the first time I have seen a nuclear option in ACG comic books. It is all just a dumb part of yet another dumb story, but something I like for that reason.

The Grand Comics Database credits Charles Nicholas with the artwork.

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