Remember When Swamp Thing’s Creators Did Their Own Simpsons Parody?

It’s the play of ghouls, gore, and spooks—or, if you’re a scaredy feline similar me, overmuch much desensitized versions of those classical spooks delivered via The Simpsons‘ Treehouse of Horror specials. Which is wherefore I was amazed to find retired precocious that, crossed years of the comic publication instrumentality connected the show’s yearly Halloween tradition, the legendary comics squad that gave america Swamp Thing once brought their tragic fearfulness magic to Springfield with an official Simpsons riff connected their DC creation.

“Squish Thing,” which sees Homer dilatory alteration into a goopy, misunderstood monster aft a accidental collision betwixt a brew from Moe’s and Bart’s latest radioactively colored Squishee, archetypal released successful 2005 successful Bongo Comics’ Bart Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror #11. Now the communicative is 1 of galore getting reprinted arsenic portion of Abrams ComicArts’ latest Treehouse of Horror omnibus, Fiendish Fables of Devilish Delicacies. It contains implicit 400 pages of reprints from crossed the the implicit 20 Treehouse of Horror comic collections that person been printed implicit overmuch of the past 30 years, each packaged successful a suitably spooky glow-in-the-dark slipcase.

Fiendish Fables of Devilish Delicacies is disposable to bargain now, but if you privation a sneak peak, cheque retired pages from “Squish Thing” below, written by Wein, illustrated by Wrightson, and featuring colors from Chris Ungar and lettering by John Costanza.

Simpsons Treehouse of Horror “Squish Thing” Preview

It’s honestly benignant of astonishing to see Simpsons characters and Springfield itself rendered successful that classical comics styling—the dense inks and shadings springiness an unthinkable consciousness of texture to characters we’re utilized to seeing successful comparatively flat, agleam colors, amplifying the spooky vibes. It’s the cleanable benignant of mishmash that we cognize and emotion from Treehouse of Horror‘s galore homages and pastiches, but successful comics form—a solemnisation of immoderate of the champion from the medium, conscionable similar however the amusement riffs connected the icons of fearfulness movie and TV.

Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Ominous Omnibus Volume 3: Fiendish Fables of Devilish Delicacies is disposable to bid present for $45.

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