by Alan M Rogers

SPIKE THE DEVIL YOU KNOW #1-2 by IDW

WRITER: Bill Williams
ART: Chris Cross

You know how some things get handed down, generation after generation? Furniture, wedding dresses, psychoses, businesses, etc? In Bill William’s miniseries Spike: The Devil You Know, Tansy Fry, one of the Master’s children, takes over the family business of opening hellmouths and trying to destroy the world.

The Master. Y’all remember him? Creepy nosferatu-looking vampire from season one of Buffy, played by Mark Metcalfe (aka Doug Neidermeyer of Animal House)?

Opening hellmouths, destroying the world and other such fun activities seem to be very popular in the Buffyverse. But really? You’d think that after all the times one slayer or another has put the kibosh on them or how often one of their own has betrayed them to keep the world safe for ‘happy meals on legs,’ those with a real yen for destruction would have turned to hobbies less likely to cause them to end up dead – like kicking over sandcastles or something.

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We Kill Monsters TP by Red 5 Comics

By Alan M Rogers

STORY: Christopher Leone & Laura Harkcom
WRITER: Christopher Leone
PENCILS: Brian Churilla
INKS: Hilary Barta, Brian Churilla & Richard Ellis
COLORS: Ronda Pattison
LETTERS: Jeff Powell

It’s just one more day. You wake up, fix a few cars, mourn your father’s passing, awkwardly interact with your ex-girlfriend and help your socially-inept genius brother slay a giant blue monster.

Things get weird when said genius brother drinks monster brain juice and is miraculously healed by it.

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