By MICHAEL GINGOLD
The mad doctor and his monsters have more four-color mayhem in store.
Veteran fright filmmaker Brian Yuzna and Drive-In-Sanity Films are preparing to unleash issues #3 and #4 of TALES OF BLOOD ISLAND, the comics series based on the cult-classic movies shot in the Philippines by Gerardo de Leon, Eddie Romero and Kane Lynn in the 1960s and ’70s. Written by Mark Cerulli and David Sehring, the stories are illustrated by Stephen Sistilli, Anthony Palumbo, Dexter Weeks, Thor Thordarson, Johnny Ace and Kali Verra. Below you can see exclusive previews of four pages from #3 and four unlettered pages from #4.
The synopsis: “The TALES OF BLOOD ISLAND comic is set during the Vietnam War, somewhere in the South Seas, as an American soldier-of-fortune and an ex-war buddy travel to the mysterious Blood Island, a primitive world where prehistoric monsters, mutants, black magic and the mad doctor of Blood Island, Dr. Akira Lorca, reside. Lorca’s experiments with a jungle plant serum, and various species from the island, have turned a dying man, Don Ramon Lopez, into the undying Beast of Blood, a head-hunting, body-swapping zombie whose insatiable appetite for sex is as extreme as his taste for human flesh. While the Beast of Blood terrorizes the native population, the American soldiers’ mission is to exterminate the war criminal Lorca and to retrieve his formula for reanimating the dead for combat. Their journey through the Blood Island jungle becomes a tale of high adventure, horror and survival when the soldier-of-fortune’s estranged daughter and adopted son come along for the ride.”
A Kickstarter campaign for the two new issues is currently underway, offering tons of merch including the comics, apparel, tiki mugs, Blu-rays of the Blood Island films and more. You can check it out here.
