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cyberghostface (cyberghostface) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-04 15:44:00

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creator: edgar allan poe, publisher: warren, title: creepy

Hop-Frog

This one's from Creepy #11. Out of all of Edgar Allan Poe's work, Hop-Frog's one of my favorites just because it's so bizarre.

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	gbone 2009-04-04 03:04 pm UTC (link)
	You know in the original story I thought Hop-Frog was a bit more ...ugly than in the scan. (Reply to this)

	dorksidefiker 2009-04-04 03:37 pm UTC (link)
	I remember the movie this story appeared in, Masque of the Red Death. Gods, I loved that movie. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	hyperactivator 2009-04-04 05:35 pm UTC (link)
	Me too. I recognised it the instant I saw the little dancer. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychop_rex 2009-04-05 04:18 pm UTC (link)
	'Masque of the Red Death' has Hop-Frog in it? I thought it was about, y'know, the Masque of the Red Death. Were a lot of Poe's stories crammed in there? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dorksidefiker 2009-04-05 04:19 pm UTC (link)
	They expanded on the short story a lot, like the studio did with ALL of the Poe series. Lets face it, the movie The Raven pretty much has NOTHING to do with the poem. But it STILL made of awesome. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sistermagpie 2009-04-04 04:40 pm UTC (link)
	This was always a favorite story of mine too. I love the fact that Edgar Allan Poe was writing Creepy stories before Creepy. (Reply to this)

box_in_the_box
2009-04-04 06:28 pm UTC (link)

I remember seeing this as a PBS special, starring the dwarf from Twin Peaks. He and Trippetta were the only live actors in the entire production, since the rest of the "actors" were grotesquely oversized and distorted puppets, meant to resemble the way humans were drawn in Medieval paintings. It was so profoundly fucked up that it made this version look like The Smurfs by comparison.

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	cyberghostface 2009-04-05 06:08 pm UTC (link)
	Here it is if anyone's wondering. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WLOC3SGJ (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	box_in_the_box 2009-04-05 06:20 pm UTC (link)
	FUKKEN SAVED YOU ARE AWESOME (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cyberghostface 2009-04-05 07:32 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks! And if it wasn't for you, I would have never known it even existed in the first place. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ashtoreth 2009-04-04 09:43 pm UTC (link)
	Poe was so fucked up. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ceru 2009-04-05 10:16 am UTC (link)
	Yep. He drank himself to death, which is generally not an indicator of a well-adjusted and emotionally stable person. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	qob 2009-04-04 11:36 pm UTC (link)
	I loved how eerie and creepy let the artists stretch, Crandall was so brilliant in them (Reply to this)

psychop_rex
2009-04-05 04:16 pm UTC (link)

This is a pretty good adaptation of the story, I must say - the artwork works very well. Hop-Frog is very believable as a dwarf - his legs could be a bit shorter, given that he's supposed to get around better on his arms, but his proportions are well thought out.
Incidentally, is Trippetta supposed to ALSO be a dwarf, or what is she? She has the proportions of a child, but her body looks more like she's in her mid-teens - is she just extremely short, or what? I don't recall what Poe said - it's been too long since I read the story...

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	meatwhichdreams 2009-04-06 12:13 am UTC (link)
	I had that very same question about Tripetta myself. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	meatwhichdreams 2009-04-06 12:11 am UTC (link)
	Hmmm, I'm a bit shaky on the Poe and I thought I remembered this story, but it ended differently...with Hop-Frog hiding in the walls and taking his revenge in some other hideous way. Walls were involved! Is this madness? I must not needs be called Madness, simply because I see the past in a clearer light of purity... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	cyberghostface 2009-04-06 10:12 am UTC (link)
	No, Poe's story ended the same way as Creepy's did. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	meatwhichdreams 2009-04-06 11:20 pm UTC (link)
	LIES. LIES! LIES! Nah, that makes sense. (Reply to this) (Parent)