Finally watched Creepshow, 40 years after rereading the comic book many times by flashlight.
The highlight visually might have been the now vintage Apple II which was cutting edge in those days.
Nothing utterly terrifying. Better writing than anything current. Only slightly deviates from the comic book.
The highlight emotionally might have been when after feeding his wife to the warewolf, the now liberated man sits down to doing anything he wants. The big deviation was the warewolf escaping in the end, while the comic book kept him trapped underwater.
The zombies might have been easier on the eyes than the single women.
The original comic book is now on archive.org with a 1 hour free trial. With a 4k monitor, all you need to do is screencap it while turning the pages. The raw images are very high res but a 4k screencap is still higher than any animal would actually read it in.
There's enough in a 2850x1890 screen cap to remember what lions last saw 40 years ago. The artwork was quite high fidelity & the print quality was better than any other paperback. It was a novel concept that a comic book could be a single book instead of a series.
The artist Bernie Wrightson died in 2017. The coloring was done by his wife of the time. He apparently worked until the day he died at age 68. He apparently made enough to live in NY city but eventually moved to Austin. Being a very successful cartoonist still didn't pay enough to retire.
Pen & paper art is still the fastest way to tell a special effects laden story, as much as 3D animation & video have evolved.
Too bad about that eucalyptus tree. It was there when a much younger lion came through, saw a much older lion run by 40 years later, only to succumb to the storm.
The last footage of the HFAC back rooms.
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