I was flipping channels last night while studying and stumbled across the original Creepshow movie on Monsters HD. Fine, it’s a classic that I remember well from when I was a kid, it was on cable all the time, and I probably wasn’t supposed to be watching it. Following it was Creepshow 2 which I remembered being pretty bad, and it was. A nice moment of nostalgia that I could half-watch, half-ignore as I studied. Fine.

But after that came a documentary entitled Tales from the Crypt: From Comic Books to Television. I didn’t think much about it but kept it on while I studied. I remembered the HBO series from my teenage years and had always liked quite a bit but never knew that it was based on an EC comic book of the name.

As I watched, I paid less attention to my Spanish and more attention to the show, which was quite well done. I found the artwork from the EC Comics titles Weird Science, Shock Superstories, Vault of Horror and Tales From the Crypt to be positively captivating. And the story lines were interesting too. It’s a small wonder that EC Comics were so popular.

Happily there are volumes of the EC Archives available for all of these titles and I plan on checking them out. And if you see the documentary in your local listings, watch it. It’s well worth the time.

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