Dare I admit I edited the novelization of STEEL?

I swear to God, it seemed like a good idea at the time. :)

More recently, the Cult of Supergirl is making great strides in National City.

Yep, including a cameo by Terri Hatcher as Lois’s mom, and by Helen Slater as Clark’s Kryptonian mom.

The actors playing Young Kara and Young Alex were so uncannily spot-on that I was actually squinting at the TV screen, wondering if maybe CGI trickery had been employed to digitally de-age Melissa Benoist and Chyler Leigh.

They were that “eerily perfect.”

Yeah, it’s not literally a sequel to SMALLVILLE, but the show loves its nostalgic Easter eggs and stunt-casting. We can only assume that Kara was referring to a SUPERGIRL version of Chloe, who also has a “wall of weird.”

I had the same issue here in the States, with the Marvel mags being shelved with more “adult” material. In retrospect, however, looking at some of the covers on those old magazine, I can kinda understand the confusion!

(Google images of DRACULA LIVES! and VAMPIRE TALES.)

Although sometimes the b/w magazines were not displayed with the comics, but stuck in with the more lurid True Confession and Sexy True Crime mags, which could be kinda embarrassing you’re a kid having to sort through “Nympho Murder Spree” cover stories to find the latest issue of VAMPIRE TALES or MONSTERS UNLEASHED .…

Whoa. Those covers take me back. I never had trouble finding Morbius’s color comics, but Marvel’s black-and-white horror magazines, like VAMPIRE TALES, were harder to find, although I soon memorized the handful of convenience stores that carried them.

In general, as I recall, the color comics were more super-heroey,…

Before the “Midnight Sons” stuff in the nineties, he had two solo series running simultaneously back in the seventies: a color series in ADVENTURES IN FEAR and a black-and-white series in VAMPIRE TALES magazine. Great stuff. In particular, the movie could do worse than look back at the VAMPIRE TALES stories which got…

Psst, Sony. If you need somebody to write the novelization, I’m available. :)

Oh, I was just scratching the surface. Just on TV alone, you also had Moonlight and Blood Ties and Angel and The Vampire Diaries and The Originals and The Gates and NBC’s short-lived Dracula show and a few more I’ve probably forgotten!

Yep. As I know, Manphibian had only one solo appearance, but he’s popped up among Marvel’s Legion of Monsters, along the Living Mummy, Werewolf by Night, the Monster of Frankenstein, etc.

MetaGodzilla: Thanks! I’m proud of that book. Boiling that massive crossover saga down to novel-size was a challenge!

Hard to predict this stuff from people’s resumes sometimes. Who would have guessed that the guy who directed ELF would knock IRON MAN out of the park?

Vampires will never run their course. There has never been a decade in my lifetime in which they have not been popular. See Dark Shadows (the original), Hammer Films, Anne Rice, The Lost Boys, Buffy, True Blood, Twilight, Underworld, etc, etc.

Vampires have been crowd-pleasers since 1819 at least. They’ll outlive us…

I suspect that most of the people who made BLADE a hit had no idea that he was an obscure comic-book hero. Ditto for MEN IN BLACK and THE MASK.

Somewhere Woodgod and Manphibian are sitting by the phone. :)

I missed that, but I still remember picking up Morbius’s first appearance at my neighborhood 7-Eleven way back when, along with a Slurpee, of course!

And I devoured those old seventies stories by Steve Gerber and Don McGregor.

I’d say that it’s about time that Morbius get his moment in the sun, but given the whole vampire thing . . .

Seriously, I’m excited about this. I was a HUGE Morbius fan back in the seventies and even wrote a bunch of Morbius fan-fic in junior high (no, not THAT kind of fan-fic). And I’m still proud of having actually…

Great soundtrack, too. Listen to it all the time.