New Fiction 2022 - October
Short Stories & Chapters
"Leonora" by Everil Worrell (1927)
"The Hollow Man" by Norman Partridge (1991)
"The Black Stone Statue" by Mary Elizabeth Counselman (1937)
"The Door" by Ann R. Loverock (2020)
"The Events at Poroth Farm" by T.E.D. Klein (1972)
"The Dead Wagon" by Greye La Spina (1927)
"Soft" by F. Paul Wilson (1984)
"Beelzebub" by Robert Bloch (1963)
"The Black Phone" by Joe Hill (2004)
"The Angle of Horror" by Cristina Fernández Cubas (1996)
"The Striding Place" by Gertrude Atherton (1896)
"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe (1839)
"The Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell (1852)
"The Girl With the Hungry Eyes" by Fritz Leiber (1949)
"The Summer People" by Shirley Jackson (1950)
"The Husband Stitch" by Carmen Maria Machado (2014)
"The Phantom 'Rickshaw" by Rudyard Kipling (1888)
"Scales" by Cherene Sherrard (2017)
"The Aztec" by Carmen Baca (2020)
"The Reaper's Image" by Stephen King (1969)
"The Mummy’s Foot" by Théophile Gautier (1840)
"When the Gentlemen Go By" by Margaret Ronald (2008)
"The Pear-Shaped Man" by George R.R. Martin (1987)
"Turn Out the Light" by Penelope Love (2015)
"Unseen—Unfeared" by Francis Stevens (1919)
"The White Cormorant" by Frithjof Spalder (1971)
"A Ghost Story" by Mark Twain (1870)
"The Signal-Man" by Charles Dickens (1866)
"Rearview" by Samantha Hunt (2020)
"The Green Bowl" by Sarah Orne Jewett (1901)
"A Good Student" by Nuzo Onoh (2014)
Dracula Daily - "October" by Bram Stoker & ed. Matt Kirkland (1897, 2021)
Comic Shorts & Single Issues
"Swamp Monster" by Basil Wolverton (1953)
"The Portrait of Sal Pullman" by Lonnie Nadler & Abby Howard (2019)
"O Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" by M.R. James & Abby Howard (2019)
"Rainbow Sprinkles" by W. Maxwell Prince, Chris O’Halloran, Martín Morazzo, Nimit Malavia (2018)
"Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall!" by Jack Davis, et al. (1953)
"The Harvest" by Shannon Campbell & Pam Wishbow (2016)
"In Each and Every Package" by Reed Crandall, et al. (1954)
"Roots in Hell" by Richard Corben (2016)
"Mars Is Heaven!" by Ray Bradbury, Wally Wood, et al. (1953)
"Save the Last Dance for Me!" by Dennis O'Neil & Pat Boyette (1969)
"Infected" by Bruce Jones, Richard Corben, Steve Oliff (1982)
"Unpleasant Side Effects" by Kerry Gammill, Sam F. Park, Mar Omega (2010)
"The Boar's Head Beast" by George Wildman, Nicola Cuti, Wayne Howard (1975)
"Ill Bred" by Charles Burns (1985)
"Don't Go to the Island" by Sfé R. Monster & Kalyna Riis-Phillips (2016)
"Some Other Animal's Meat" by Emily Carroll (2016)
"Greed" by Becky Cloonan, Jordie Bellaire, Travis Lanham (2013)
"Goin' South" by Nancy Collins, David Imhoff, Jeff Butler, Steve Montano, Renée Witterstaetter, Electric Crayon, Simon Bisley (1995)
"Winnebago Graveyard #1" by Steve Niles, Stephanie Paitreau, Jordie Bellaire, Jen Bartel, Alison Sampson, Aditya Bidikar, Mingjue Helen Chen, Sarah Horrocks (2017)
"Seed" by Fiona Staples, Jose Villarrubia, Michael Dougherty, Todd Casey, Zach Shields, Marc Andreyko (2015)
"Kill Screen" by Lauren Beukes, Dale Halvorsen, Ryan Kelly, Eva de la Cruz, Clem Robins, Bill Sienkiewicz, Rowena Yow, Shelly Bond (2015)
"The Fool of the Web" by Patricia Breen, Roel, Brenda Feikema (1997)
"Fortune Broken" by Sandy King, Leonardo Manco, Marianna Sanzone (2015)
"The Cemetery" by Franco, Abigail Larson, Wes Abbott, Sara Richard (2022)
"The Speed of Pain" by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, Dave Stewart, Steve Wands, Will Dennis (2018)
"Gestation" by Marguerite Bennett, Jonathan Brandon Sawyer, Doug Garbark, Nic. J. Shaw (2014)
"Chemical 13!" by Michael Woods & Saskia Gutekunst (2009)
"Hello, My Name Is..." by Nadia Shammas, Rowan MacColl, Licha Myers, Chris Sanchez (2021)
"Sea of Souls" by Jenna Lynn Wright, Alvaro Feliu, Juan Francisco Mota, Ricardo Osnaya, Erik Lopera Tamayo, Jorge Cortes, Robby Bevaro, Maxflan Araujo, Walter Pereyra, Taylor Esposito (2022)
"Crush" by Janet Hetherington, Ronn Sutton, Becka Kinzie, Zakk Saam (2018)
"The End of All Things" by Natalie Leif & Elaine Well (2014)
Video & Electronic Games
Silent Hill dev. Team Silent (1999)
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow dev. Cloak and Dagger Games (2022)
Halloween Forever dev. Imaginary Monsters (2016)
Bride of Frankenstein dev. Paul Smith, Steve Howard, Timedata Ltd. (1987)
Zombies Ate My Neighbors dev. LucasArts (1993)
Darkstalkers 3 (aka Vampire Savior) dev. Capcom (1997)
Movies
Smile dir. Parker Finn (2022)
The Mummy dir. Karl Freund (1932)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers dir. Don Siegel (1956)
The Skin I Live In dir. Pedro Almodóvar (2011)
The Picture of Dorian Gray dir. Albert Lewin (1945)
The Uninvited dir. Lewis Allen (1944)
The Other Side of the Underneath dir. Jane Arden (1972)
Jeepers Creepers: Reborn dir. Timo Vuorensola (2022)
Terrifier 2 dir. Damien Leone (2022)
Ravenous dir. Antonia Bird (1999)
The Experiment dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel (2001)
Ganja & Hess dir. Bill Gunn (1973)
Def by Temptation dir. James Bond III (1990)
Eyes Without a Face dir. Georges Franju (1960)
Under the Shadow dir. Babak Anvari (2016)
Amsterdam dir. David O. Russell (2022)
Deadstream dir. Joseph Winter & Vanessa Winter (2022)
In My Skin by Marina de Van (2002)
Evolution dir. Lucile Hadžihalilović (2015)
Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness dir. Shimako Satō (1995)
Celia dir. Ann Turner (1989)
Censor dir. Prano Bailey-Bond (2021)
Halloween Ends dir. David Gordon Green (2022)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari dir. Robert Wiene (1920)
Black Adam dir. Jaume Collet-Serra (2022)
Trouble Every Day dir. Claire Denis (2001)
Eve's Bayou dir. Kasi Lemmons (1997)
Monster (aka Humanoids from the Deep) dir. Barbara Peeters & Jimmy T. Murakami (1980)
The Mafu Cage dir. Karen Arthur (1978)
Medusa: Queen of the Serpents dir. Matthew B.C. (2020)
Medusa dir. Anita Rocha da Silveira (2021)
Prey for the Devil dir. Daniel Stamm (2022)
It Follows dir. David Robert Mitchell (2014)
Amer dir. Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani (2009)
TV Episodes
The Simpsons - "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII" (2022)
Bob's Burgers - "Apple Gore-chard! (But Not Gory)" (2022)
TV Series
Costume Quest (2019)
Castlevania - Seasons 3 & 4 (2020-2021)
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There is something really special about how Spider-Girl used continuity references.
(See this for further examples).
I think a lot of people would at best call it just some fun Easter eggs or at worst continuity porn or even an example of how ‘unoriginal’ the series was.
On all fronts they kind of miss the point though. Yeah they are fun references but these bits of continuity serve a subtle narrative purpose.
See Spider-Man is all about great power and great responsibility right? And if you were to really boil down his dramatic hook as originally envisioned it’d go something like ‘A superhero but who has normal life problems too’.
Those ideas apply to Mayday for sure but not for the same reason. Mayday’s character experiences normal life problems too, and she has to balance them against superhero duties too and she lives by the mantra of great power yadda yadda too.
But...that’s not really the point of her character, it’s not the core concept like it is for Spider-Man. Her character conforming to the above is in service of what her actual central premise is.
And that premise is...legacy.You could apply that to the entire MC2 universe in fact. Not only is that why it’s even called MC2 in the first place but it’s also why Mayday’s (and the wider MC2 universe’s) first appearance is entitled:
It’s also why the costume she wears is her Uncle Ben’s, why her debut splash page in costume emphasizes that she’s repeating her mother’s most famous line, why her debut battle happens at the Brooklyn bridge and why her first villain is himself a legacy to her father’s greatest enemy.
The idea of legacy permeates practically everything in the MC2 universe and Mayday’s tales.
That’s why the references are more than just references and certainly a far cry from mere continuity porn or a lazy recycling of ideas. *glaresatAbramazingSpider-Man#1*
They serve as an extra, often subtle layer, of reinforcing the central theme behind her character and the entire MC2 universe in fact. It marks out to the readers, even in ways they might not initially realize, that these really are the direct inheritors of the classic Marvel heroes legacies.
They go through similar or identical moments as their predecessors to prove to us they are worthy of that legacy, to show us how they are similar yet different.
And when it comes to Mayday by doing this DeFalco, Oliffe and Frenz reinforce the verisimilitude of her story and totally sell you on the idea that she really, really is the daughter of Mary Jane and Spider-Man.
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MC2 Reviews/Thoughts Master Post
Spider-Girl Era
A-Next #1 Review
Fantastic Five #1 Review
Spider-Man Family #1 (2005)
Spider-Man Family #1 (2005) Review
Amazing/Spectacular Spider-Girl Era
Spider-Man Magazine (2007) #1: The Dance Review
Family Ties
Amazing Spider-Man Family/Mr. and Mrs. Spider-Man #1 Review
Those Who Never Return
Amazing Spider-Man Family/Mr. and Mrs. Spider-Man #2 Review
Common Ground
Amazing Spider-Man Family/Mr. and Mrs. Spider-Man #3 Review
Career Paths
Amazing Spider-Man Family/Mr. and Mrs. Spider-Man #4 Review
Post-Amazing/Spectacular Spider-Girl Era
Spider-Verse
Amazing Spider-Man Volume 3 #8: My Thoughts
Spider-Verse Team-Up #3 Story 1 Review???????????????????????????????????
Spider-Verse Team-Up #3 (Story 2) Review???????
ASM V3 #14
Amazing Spider-Man Volume 3 #15
Also on ASM V3 #15
Secret Wars
Spider Island #1 MC2 Back Up Review
Spider Island #1 (Story 2): Shattered! Review
Spider Island #2 (MC2 Story) Review
Spider Island #2 (Story 2): Avengers at the Gate! Review
Spider Island #3 (Story 2): The Enemy Within Review
Spider Island #4 (Story 2): I am the Avengers! Review
Spider Island #5 (Story 2): The Long Row! Review
Web-Warriors
Spider-Geddon
Edge of Spider-Geddon #1 Thoughts…Kinda
Superior Octopus #1 Thoughts…sorta
Spider-Geddon #1 Thoughts
Spider-Geddon #2 Thoughts
Spider-Girls #1 Thoughts
Spider-Girls #2 Thoughts
Spider-Girls #3 Thoughts
Spider-Geddon #5 Thoughts
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