On the planet of latest horror comics, few writers are as prolific as Cullen Bunn. His creator-owned horror titles embody The Sixth Gun, Harrow County, Bone Parish, and The Damned. Bunn’s comedian The Empty Man was tailored by filmmaker David Prior right into a critically acclaimed function movie. He has additionally written comics for DC, Valiant, and Marvel, together with the hits Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe and Deadpool Kills Deadpool, amongst many others.
Now Bunn has launched a video podcast sequence on YouTube referred to as The Cullenoscopy. On the podcast, he’ll discover horror in comics and different media, one particular matter or subgenre at a time. The premiere episode aired, appropriately, on Friday the 13th and featured particular visitor Rebekah McKendry speaking about horror in comics. McKendry is a author/director whose hit horror sequence Barstow was revealed by Darkish Horse Comics. Mainstream writer Simon and Schuster will quickly publish her graphic novel sequence Fairly Evil.
Why Horror? Why Not?
Horror is, in fact, in every single place today, in comics, novels, TV, motion pictures, and actual life. The tv broadcasting style previously often called “the information” now appears as horrific than any Stephen King novel or Blumhouse function movie. One principle often employed to clarify why followers gravitate to horror is that in troubled occasions (suppose: the Nice Melancholy, the Covid pandemic, and so forth.), it gives a protected outlet—a solution to confront the actual horrors round us in a managed surroundings. A viewer can stroll out of a theater, flip off the TV, shut the pages of a comic book or a novel, in impact deciding when to expertise the horror and when to flee it. Actual life doesn’t at all times provide that possibility.
When requested about his new podcast sequence, Bunn stated, “One of many questions I’ve heard again and again—and I’m certain anybody who writes the sort of stuff I have a tendency to put in writing has heard it, too—is ‘why horror?’ And I get it! Why spend a lot time wallowing round in darkness and worry? Why am I so preoccupied with sinister forces and evil acts we perpetrate in opposition to each other? It’s not a straightforward query to reply, truly. With The Cullenoscopy, although, I’m giving form to that reply. Over the course of the sequence, I feel viewers will perceive precisely why I like the style. On the very least, they’ll know the way a lot I like it!”
The Cullenoscopy might be launched on YouTube each two weeks on Tuesday, starting June 24th, with all kinds of horror specialists and practitioners serving as co-hosts and friends.