Your intrepid correspondent braved great dangers (namely, traffic on the 405 freeway) to journey to the...

Unfortunately, I was only able to attend the first two of the four-day festivities this year, but it was well worth it. I picked up some great horror-themed comics to review and managed to score a newsworthy tidbit or two.

Feo goes into Superhero mode with vinyl clad beauty, Vera Vanguard. Here we see Vera saving Feo from the Evil WhatEvers!

I also rendezvoused with Feo, who was part of the Comic-Con Establishment, working in the Autograph Area as a Celebrity Wrangler.

Basically, this meant his job was to protect the guest celebrities from mentally unbalanced fanboys like, well, like Feo himself. Talk about the fox watching the henhouse. Actually, Feo did a bang-up job. I personally watched him lay the beat-down on a guy who tried to get too close to Mark Hamill. Feo even let me get in a few kicks to the guy's gut. (Okay, that's a lie: Feo was tough but fair, and unfailingly courteous to all, and Mark Hamill is a wonderful man who actually got down on his hands and knees on the floor to sign the fan's movie poster. But it sounds better the other way, doesn't it?)

Anyway, Feo and I hatched new and fiendish plans to further our goal of having Feo Amante's Horror Thriller take over the entire known world.

The first step is a totally redesigned Comics section with a brand new logo - check it out at the top of the Fanboy Comics page! That's what Feo looked like by the end of the con on Sunday! (Whose blood is that? Let's just say Todd McFarlane may not be back next year!) And, off to your right, Feo (totally on his own - honest!) has provided a link so that those inclined can purchase the new DVD of my movie TEENAGE CAVEMAN.

IF FEO BELIEVED IN ANGELS... These are exactly the kind of angels that I would believe in. The angel in black is top erotic model Dawn Asamura. The angel in red is Kimmie Allen These two were working a booth downstairs that belonged to Viz Comics, or Wiz comics, or Wizard or Blizzard, Lizard, Gizzard, Grizzled something. Who gives a shit what booth they worked for?* The point is, red is a stimulating color, and don't these gals look hot? I mean, come on Het Guys & Lez Gals alike: It was San Diego in the middle of summer! Don't these angels look H-O-T HOT? Photo by Kelly Parks

I appreciate this because I know Feo hates that movie every bit as much as he loves my other one, THE BREED (A terribly under-rated film that excells over 99% of all other vampire movies -feo). Although I must report that TEENAGE CAVEMAN got an excellent review at theonion.com, and has been selected to be shown at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival! (So everyone can hate it as much as me - feo) Okay, enough with the shameless self promotion, or that'll be my blood on Feo's hands.

As for news from Comic-Con (Feo smacked me around over my failure to contribute news to this space, so I'm going to try to do better in the future - the guy packs a mean right cross!), I didn't get anything earth-shattering, but I did hear the following tidbits from the presentation by my old boss, special effects maestro

Stan is hard at work on T3: RISE OF THE MACHINES, the third installment in the TERMINATOR franchise, which features the debut of a Lady Terminator. At the same time, his production company is in the Great White North shooting WRONG TURN, a thriller about travelers in an isolated area who run afoul of not-quite-human tormentors: think THE HILLS HAVE EYES, or DELIVERANCE with mutants instead of hillbillies (I'd make a joke about there not being much difference in some parts of the Deep South, but my Confederate wife would kick my Yankee ass).

*UPDATE JAN. 11, 2003: Actually, they were working for Pin-Up artist Dave Nestler.

And from the Miramax/Dimension booth, it sounds like the HELLBOY movie is coming along great, with Guillermo Del Toro devoting all his energies to it and creator Mike Mignola still very much involved. If they can do justice to the comic, folks (and it sounds like they plan to try their damnedest), this is going to be one hell of a flick. And if they fail, it won't be for lack of trying.

A new horror comic coming your way is CRYPTOPIA (see my review of the first issue) from writer Ben Raab and artist Pat Quinn. This series is about Cryptozoology, the study of life forms that have been reported, but not proved to exist, like the Loch Ness Monster and the Thunderbird (lest we forget, the gorilla was once in the same category). This is a real-life field of scientific study that I became interested in after seeing the MOTHMAN PROPHECIES movie, and I'm pleased to say that Raab has done his homework.

Check out the review for more details.

Anyway, that's it for now. I know, woefully weak considering the cornucopia of news available at the Con: it's all Feo's fault, he didn't show up until Friday because he was playing the rock star, meeting with publishers about his burgeoning literary career, so I was without guidance and direction for one whole day. A taste of fame and he turns into a prima donna!

-Chris Gage

THE FOLLOWING IS FROM FEO

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E.C. McMullen Jr. is the creator of Feo Amante's Horror Thriller, with work published by Easy Rider Magazine, Charles Scribner's Sons, Harker Press, Crystal Lake Publishing, and Feo Studios.