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When I was in middle school, I was the kid lurking on my own reading issues of Jhonen Vazquez’ Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and Squee. Something about the macabre, dark sense of humor and the jagged, sharply drawn characters directly appealed to the awkward, uncertain, and, admittedly, embarrassing 12-year-old me. But I loved them then […] The post Exclusive: Artist Aaron Alexovich on Nickelodeon’s Invader Zim: Enter The Florpus! appeared first on Dread Central.

When it comes to finding safe ways to introduce children to the world of horror, there is certainly a load of possible choices at your fingertips. You can go safe with stories like Bunnicula or any of the Goosebumps books. Alternatively, there’s always cartoons and movies that target that demographic, like Aaahh!!! Real Monsters or […] The post Exclusive: Invader Zim Artist Aaron Alexovich Takes Us From Concept to Final Product in It’S Not Scary appeared first on Dread Central.

Written by John Shackelford | Art by Aaron Alexovich | Published by Titan Comics

Cross pollination is all the rage at the moment. Games into films into books into TV shows into comics, rinse and repeat. This obviously has good and bad consequences. On the good side, if we like something a lot it’s nice to get a lot more material in a variety of mediums (look at Star Wars for the king of that model). On the bad side, something good can become far too diluted, or the quality of the additional tie-ins are just not good enough. Sometimes though, an adapted property does make you scratch your head a little.

Little Nightmares is an interesting property to develop into a comic series, and certainly not one I would have put even half way up a list of good games to adapt. Little Nightmares, for the uninitiated, is a recently...

Diamond Select Toys will be in attendance at this year's Toy Fair in New York City to display some new items, including Vinimates based on the upcoming The Dark Tower movie. Also in today's Horror Highlights: a clip of tonight's episode of Paranormal Lockdown, a Capture Kill Release trailer, a gameplay tutorial video for Injustice 2, cover artwork / preview pages for Little Nightmares, and behind-the-scenes photos from The Tombs.

The Dark Tower Vinimates from Diamond Select Toys: "Four months after New York Comic-Con, Diamond Select Toys is returning to the Jacob Javits Center in New York City for the annual International Toy Fair. Once again, Dst will unveil new items to retailers and press, and Dst is known for surprising people! Below, you’ll see some of the upcoming items that will be on display at the show, including new licenses Dark Tower, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales!

Back in the day….back before we were born even!…there was this much loved cartoon on Nickelodeon called Invader Zim. But check this out the powers that be at Oni Press have brought it back. And last weekend Volume 1 of the comic series was released! It was written by Jhonen Vasques & Eric Trueheart with artists Aaron Alexovich and Megan Lawton with Simon Troussellier and Rikki Simons.

Would be spoilers to say that we love it and now we not only want to watch the TV series, but we’d like new episodes as well?

The comics follow where the cartoon series left off. It’s about boy named Dib who knows that Zim is really an alien who wants to destroy the world, except no one believes him. It’s rated for teens, but we feel like these books would be loved by younger boys too. It would be...

Invader Zim #3

Written by Eric Trueheart

Artwork by Aaron Alexovich, Megan Lawton

Colored by Rikki Simons

Letters by Warren Wucinich

Published by Oni Press

Invader Zim #3 has the Irken invader trying to pull off another dubious scheme to destroy life on Earth. Alexovich and Lawton create artwork that is reminiscent of the original series. Trueheart’s writing is hilariously morbid as it pokes fun at the postmodern movement of art. Invader Zim #3 is a fairly decent comic in its delivery and comedy with some minor flaws.

Zim and Gir go to a distant planet to collect what is known as the “Star Donkey”. Zim hopes to use the Star Donkey to get rid of all life on Earth. Once back on Earth, Zim poses as Schimnvader Schmim and opens an art exhibit at the Museum of Natural History Museum to display the pieces of the Star Donkey. It all comes...

Invader Zim #1

Written by Jhonen Vasquez

Art by Aaron Alexovich and Megan Lawton

Colors by Simon “Hutt” Trousselier

Published by Oni Press

In case you didn’t know, Invader Zim is back in comic form and this reviewer and longtime Zim fan has been counting down the days to finally getting what we’ve wanted—new content. It’s been fourteen years since the tragically mis-scheduled cartoon about a little alien named Zim first aired on Nickelodeon. If you’ve never seen the series, don’t worry; there’s a two-page introduction that will tell you all that you need to know in order understand the comic. But that doesn’t mean that you aren’t missing out by forgoing the show! Since this is the first issue, allow me to indulge in a bit of history.

In the late 90s, Nickelodeon wanted to attract the kind of audience that...