Comic Books, Drag Race, & Life in New Zealand
On today’s episode I discover and unwrap the first book I packed back in Philly – an omnibus I’ve been hyped for ever since I first shared its announcement back in 2015!
Want to start from the beginning? Here’s the complete Season 1 playlist of Crushing Comics.
Episode 6 features Shang-Chi in Master of Kung Fu Omnibus, Vol. 3 (Amazon/eBay), which is covered in the Guide to Shang-Chi.
On today’s episode of Crushing Comics I unveiled the first international comics haul of new comics collected editions that’s arrived since I’ve been here in New Zealand! I don’t know how I made it this long without a fresh supply of books (and hopefully not any spiders).
Here’s what I unboxed in alphabetical order, along with their accompanying guides (if applicable):
Your eyes do not deceive you – I’m back, back, back, back again with more drag power rankings for you!
What rankings? Well, even though RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 3 does not debut until January, it’s no longer the only drag show you can stream to the comfort of your own couch.
Hennies, please let me introduce you to Season 2 of Dragula – the search for the next drag super monster! This new season is free to watch on World of Wonder’s YouTube channel!
I’ve loved horror even longer than I’ve loved drag, ever since the first chapter book I ever read was a children’s version of Dracula. Unfortunately, the modern horror landscape tends to be focused on gore and jump scares, and not a lot of the macabre suspense I dug as a kid.
Dragula brings that creepiness and sense of macabre – along with the heaping of camp that comes with a great drag performance.
Rather than preparing for an outlandish challenge in each episode, contestants prep a horrific look that adheres to a specific scary theme – like zombies or sea monsters. Then, rather than present the look on the runway, the queens bring their them to life on a genuinely scary floor show that’s sometimes in a challenging environment, like the middle of the desert!
Finally, and I do mean finally, there are no lip syncs for your life here. Queens are eliminated via Extermination! This season, they first face their fears in a frightening challenge against other low-ranking queens. Then, the bottom queen (or queens!) films her own creepy, campy death scene at the hands of hosts The Boulet Brothers!
The queens of Season 1 turned out some amazing looks despite the show’s low budget. This first Season 2 episode is worlds different – it’s shot in much higher quality, and the queens all bring highly-detailed horror looks filled with prosthetic make-up and practical effects.
Enough explanation – let’s get to the show and the rankings! This week each queen was tasked with turning out a horrific, Hellraiser-inspired Cenobite – you probably know the most-famous one as “Pinhead.” Cenobites are sadomasochistic extra-dimensional beings who take the shape of humanoids whose bodies are consumed in an endless state of half-torture, half elaborate art.
[Read more…] about The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula Power Rankings – Season 2, Episode 1
On today’s episode of Crushing Comics, I had the randomly luck into unwrapping one of my favorite runs of all time. Hear about why I love it so much as I retell the uncanny origin of my Crushing Comics collecting guides.
Episode 4 features Uncanny X-Men Omnibus, Vol. 3 (Amazon / eBay) as covered by my Guide to Claremont-era X-Men.
Today I launched a somewhat unusual guide directly to Patrons of Crushing Krisis – Watchmen: The Definitive Collecting Guide.
“But, Peter,” you might say, “Watchmen is only 12 issues long. How does that warrant an entire guide?
I’m so glad you asked. This guide does more than break out the many ways the original Watchmen series is collected. It also has information about the genesis of the Watchmen characters. It explains the differences between the three different cuts of the film, including one that incorporates the Tales of the Black Freighter material. It covers DC’s 2012 return to the Watchemen with Before Watchmen.
Much like my Complete Guide to Batman by Grant Morrison, this page is something I’ve always sought on the internet but never quite found. I look forward to adding more to it as the upcoming Doomsday Clock event as it unfurls.
This guide will become available to the general public in a few weeks to coincide with the release of the first issue of Doomsday Clock. Want it before then? Patrons get early access to every guide, including extended access to special Patrons’ Choice guides like Scarlet Witch.