Notes

- Rob Zombie, front man for the crazy rock group White Zombie at the time, wrote in his introduction to 3 X 3 Eyes that it was full of "koo-koo adventures."

- Young Yakumo Fujii saves a girl from being mugged on his way to work. He takes her to his job, a local bar where he serves drinks dressed as a woman because he'd get thrown out of school if they knew he was working (but he tells her with a smile: "I'm not really a transvestite."). She turns out to be a three-eyed monster who asks Takumo to help her become human. Along the way he turns into a "super-zombie." This is a fast-paced comic book that will make you smile and giggle all the way through it.

Info

Author: Yuzo Takada

Introduction by: Rob Zombie

Form: Paperback

Length: 160 pages

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Release: March 1995

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1569710597
ISBN-13: 978-1569710593

Dimensions: 10.2 x 6.8 x 0.3 inches

Issue 1

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Issue 3

Form: paperback, Issue 3 of 9 Author: Rob Zombie Artists:Patrick "Pat" Brosseau, Gene Colan, Will Conrad, Kieron Dwyer, Ron Riley, Tony Washington Editor: Leanne Shaw Publisher: MV Creations/Crossgen Entertainment Release: December 2003 Language: English Notes: Rob Zombie (w), Gene Colan, Kieron Dwyer, Will Conrad (art) Cover by Casey Jones Music superstar Rob Zombie pens three tales of horror, humor and suspense! First, Lord Zombie shows no mercy! Then, Baby continues her devilish adventures with the evil tenants of the House of 1,000 Corpses! Finally, jet-setting super-spy El SuperBeasto won't stand for foolishness until he's horizontal with his honey!

Issue 4

Form: Paperback, Issue 4 of 9 Author: Rob Zombie Artists: Nathan Baertsch, Pat Boutin, Kieron Dwyer, Mike Kelleher, Miguel Montenegro, Carlos Rafael, Jeremy Roberts, Kevin Senft, Matt Tyree Editor: Leanne Shaw Publisher: MV Creations Release: January 2004 Language: English

Issue 5

Form: Paperwork, Issue 5 of 9 Author: Rob Zombie Artists: Pat Boutin, Will Conrad, Kieron Dwyer, Alex Horley, Mike Kelleher, Jeremy Roberts, Kevin Senft, Val "Enigma" Staples, Matt Tyree Editor: Leanne Shaw Publisher: MV Creations Release: February 2004 Language: English

Issue 6

Form: Paperback, Issue 6 of 9 Author: Rob Zombie Artists: Pat Boutin, Kieron Dwyer, Mike Kelleher, Fabio Laguna, Jeremy Roberts, Val "Enigma" Staples, Matt Tyree Editor: Leanne Shaw Publisher: MV Creations Release: March 2004 Language: English

Issue 7

Form: paperwork, Issue 7 of 9 Author: Rob Zombie Artists: Pat Boutin, Kieron Dwyer, Mike Kelleher, Fabio Laguna, Tony Moore, Diogenes Neves, Jeremy Roberts, Val "Enigma" Staples, E.J. Su, Matt Tyree Editor: Leanne Shaw Publisher: MV Creations Release: April 2004 Language: English

Issue 8

Form: Paperback, Issue 8 of 9 Author: Rob Zombie Artists: Pat Boutin, Kieron Dwyer, Fabio Laguna, E.J. Su, Matt Tyree Publisher: MV Creations Release: May 2004 Language: English

Issue 9

Form: Paperback, Issue 9 of 9 Author: Rob Zombie Artists: Pat Boutin, Fabio Laguna, E.J. Su, Matt Tyree Publisher: MV Creations Release: July 2004 Language: English Notes: Rob Zombie is mad! Simply mad!!! Suzi X loses more clothing while fighting against alien masterminds and horrific monster badies! Then El Superbeasto helps hot babes lose more clothing still as he fights for mankind and his manhood! Then Simon Deadmarsh and his monster hunting crew take on ghouls from another dimension!... well, maybe not. The greatest show in the world continues the Spookshow!

Issue 1

Form: Paperback, Issue 1 of 4 Authors: Steve Niles & Rob Zombie Artist: Nat Jones Letterer: Nate Piekos Colorist: Jay Fotos Editor: Shawna Gore Designer: Lani Schreibstein Cover Artist: Simon Bisley Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Release: June 16, 2004 Length: 32 pages Notes: Small-time pro-wrestler Rex Hauser (a.k.a. The Nail) makes a living touring the small-town wrestling circuit with his family. It’s business as usual for this close-knit bunch until they unwittingly cross paths with a murderous gang of Satanic bikers. But these aren’t your run-of-the-mill devil worshippers. In fact, Hauser and his family just might be up against the most un-Godly evil ever known to man.

Issue 2

Form: Paperback, Issue 2 of 4 Author: Steve Niles & Rob Zombie Artist: Nat Jones Cover Artist: Simon Bisley Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Release: July 21, 2004 Length: 32 pages Notes: On-the-road pro-wrestler Rex Hauser (a.k.a. The Nail) and his family are being stalked across the Badlands by a murderous gang of honest-to-Satan bikers from Hell … and to his heartbreak and horror, the bastards got to his wife! Traumatized but alive, she recounts her moments of terror at the hands of the horrendous, hog-riding monsters, but not before the family’s only escape route is blocked. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, no one around for miles to help … the Badlands just got worse.

Issue 3

Form: Paperback, Issue 3 of 4 Author: Steve Niles & Rob Zombie Artist: Nat Jones Letterer: Nate Piekos Colorist: Jay Fotos Editor: Shawna Gore Designer: Lani Schreibstein Cover Artist: Simon Bisley Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Release: September 01, 2004 Length: 32 pages Notes: Hunted and terrorized by a demonic band of devil bikers across a remote area of North Dakota, semi-pro wrestler Rex “The Nail” Hauser and his family are quickly realizing that their own resourcefulness is their only hope for survival in this deadly game of cat-and-mouse. But the hunters are relentless as they stalk and terrorize their quarry, and soon Rex and his family realize that they can’t run, and there’s nowhere left to hide … so now their only hope is to band together and take a stand against the demons-on-wheels, even if it’s the last thing they do.

Issue 4

Form: paperback, Issue 4 of 4 Author: Steve Niles & Rob Zombie Artist: Nat Jones Letterer: Nate Piekos Colorist: Jay Fotos Editor: Shawna Gore Designer: Lani Schreibstein Cover Artist: Simon Bisley Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Release: October 20, 2004 Length: 32 pages Notes: Rex "The Nail" Hauser and his family have been terrorized and hunted by a bloodthirsty motorcycle gang as they tour the professional wrestling circuit across the Badlands of North Dakota. With one member of their group already murdered by the maniacs, the survivors cornered in a remote location, and their assailants growing more relentless with each attack, one thing becomes brutally clear: if the demons on wheels get their way, there's no hope of making it out alive. In this match, there's no fake blood, no staged body-slams. This is as real as it gets-one bad-ass fighting man who will do anything it takes to protect his family versus blood-curdling, unspeakable evil. Don't miss the ballsy, terrifying conclusion to this summer's must-read horror comic!

Notes

- Full color

- Hunted in one of the most desolate regions of America, preyed upon by an evil that does not sleep, Rex Hauser is The Nail-and it's time he took a stand. A semi-pro wrestler, Hauser has been touring the country performing at small-time arenas until the fateful night he and his family run afoul of a bloodthirsty gang of Satanic bikers stalking the North Dakota Badlands. Now he's a lone man fighting for the survival of his loved ones in a no-holds-barred standoff against the forces of Hell itself!

- Co-written by the newly formed CREEP International writing team of modern horror masters Rob Zombie and Steve Niles, The Nail is a relentless, unflinching portrait of the heart of darkness, and what one man will sacrifice to hold it at bay.

Info

Form: Paperback

Author: Rob Zombie & Steve Niles

Artist: Nat Jones & Jay Fotos

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Length: 96 pages

Release: July 06, 2005

ISBN-10: 1-59307-173-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-59307-173-8 

Notes

As reviewed by Ambush Bug:

            This is one hell of a book. In the same way that Rob Zombie kicked your front teeth out and bitch slapped your momma with this summer’s vicious circus of violence and mayhem THE DEVIL’S REJECTS, this one-shot from IDW will easily be remembered as one of the more disturbing experiences I’ve had the pleasure of laying my eyes on in a long time. Maybe it’s due to the fact that a lot of horror has been tamed down in cinema and books lately. I don’t know, but I was smitten from frame one of the movie that inspired this book and now I’m glad to say the feeling has transferred to the page. Zombie takes these despicable characters and gives them the spotlight with three vignettes, each focusing on members of the family known as The Devil’s Rejects.

             The book starts out with a filthy trip through the mind of the devious Captain Spaulding. “Top Secret Clown Business” is an origin story of sorts as seen through the eyes of (easily) the scariest clown I’ve ever seen. Nick Stakal, who I last saw drawing IDW’s zombies-on-a-space-station miniseries, CONTAINMENT, supplies some disturbing, yet cartoonish panels which fit the demented clown’s story to a tee. As with the movie, I found myself laughing at the violence, and then reeling back at the intensity of it all. With this Captain Spaulding character especially, Zombie has a talent to entertain and then make me feel bad for being entertained by the carnage I just witnessed.

            This is a theme that carries over into the second tale, “Carnival Kill Ride.” What Zombie does here is take the devilish characters of Otis B. Driftwood and his homicidal sister Baby and puts them into a comical situation: two killers go on a House of Horrors carnival ride at the state fair. Seeing these real terrors guffawing at the horrors in the ride is worth a chuckle or two, but soon, when these two get bored, they decide to turn the ride into a real house of horrors. It isn’t the murders that occur that disturbed me about this story; it was how far these characters go with the wanton destruction of their victims. Without an ounce of remorse or restrain, artist David Hartman depicts these characters as animals; utterly destroying their prey for the sheer thrill of the kill.

            But I think it was the last tale, featuring Captain Spaulding, Baby, and Sigmund Freud of all people, that was the most memorable to me. By far, this is the best art of the bunch. I’ve never seen Michael Lopez’ stuff before, but I will definitely seek out his work in the future. His iconic splash page of a blood splattered Baby being protected by a gun-toting Captain Spaulding is easily the most memorable image of the book. In this story, Sigmund Freud analyzes these two deviants, dissecting their psyches and noting the methodology that inspires the madness that these two inflict on all of those unlucky enough to cross their paths.

            This book is not for your Aunt Trudy who knits you scarves for Christmas. It’s not for Pastor Thomas or that girl that goes “eww!” at everything or that kid who wets himself whenever a car honks its horn. It’s dirty. It’s rough. It’s despicable. It made me laugh at the horror of violence, then feel bad about that reaction for a moment, but just a moment. Pretty soon, though, I just said “Fuck it.” and laughed again at how utterly badass and ballsy it all is and went along for this ride into the sick, the sadistic, and the surreal. This book highlights some of the best horror-type art out there today. From the Stakal’s warped panels, to Hartman’s hyper-violence, to those final iconic images by Micheal Lopez. There isn’t a horror book out there that looks better. I’d love to see Rob Zombie visit these characters again in celluloid or comic book form. He definitely has a firm handle on these Rejects and if this book is any indication, he’s definitely got more stories to tell.

info

Form: Paperback

Author: Rob Zombie

Art: Nick Stakal, David Hartman, and Michael Lopez

Publisher: IDW

Release: 2005

Language: English

ASIN: B000KUO5KG

Notes

- Spook Show returns in a trade paperback with 48 new pages of story directly from the twisted imagination of the legendary Rob Zombie! This monster is jam-packed! Just when you thought the stories were over, the Spook Show puts on yet another display of madness from hell!

Info

Form: Paperback

Author: Rob Zombie

Length: 208 pages

Publisher: MV Creations

Release: October 19, 2005

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0974800872
ISBN-13: 978-0974800875

Notes

- Steve Niles and Rob Zombie, team up to present this realistic take on the legendary Bigfoot. A monstrous ape-man is stomping around the woods of the Pacific Northwest, and he's not happy with mankind.

- Bigfoot also offers master craftsman Richard Corben a return to his true horror roots as he fully renders the imposing beast as only he can.

Info

Form: Paperback

Authors: Steve Niles, Rob Zombie, and Richard Corben

Length: 128 pages

Publisher: IDW Publishing

Release: October 12, 2005

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1933239131
ISBN-13: 978-1933239132

Dimensions: 10.2 x 6.6 x 0.3 inches

Weight: 9.6 ounces

Notes

- With the animated feature film soon to be released, pick up the graphic novel where it all began! The Haunted World of El Superbeasto is the illustrated thrill ride of the summer, created and written by Rob Zombie.

- Follow the exploits of El Superbeasto, Suzi-X and Simon Deadmarsh in these tales of horror excitement! No self-respecting horror fan will want to miss out on this one.

Info

Form: Paperback

Authors: Rob Zombie, Kieron Dwyer, Tony Moore, Alex Horley, Dan Brereton, Tommy Lee Edwards, J. Scott Campbell

Length: 288 pages

Publisher: Image Comics

Release: May 30, 2007

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1582407886
ISBN-13: 978-1582407883

Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.6 x 0.7 inches

Weight: 1.3 pounds

Notes

- A dark dramedy describing the fantastic rise and spiraling decent of celebrity. Being in the right place at the right time isn't always a good thing, as Leon Stokes aka Baron Von Shock finds out first hand. His sudden rise to fame as a local television horror host meets with unexpected results. Baron Von Shock proves to be a roller coaster of emotion that only Rob Zombie can deliver..

Info

Form: Paperback

Illustrators: Donny Hadiwidjaja and Val Staples

Length: 32 pages

Publisher: Image Comics

Release: May 26, 2010

Language: English