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5 Ridiculous Comic Book Controversies

Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another week of The No-Fly Zone, Mania.coms alternative comics column, where no superhero goes un-ignored (except for Watchmen and the other revisionist takes we all know about). Now, everyone in the comic book world loves a good controversy. Nothing gets fans fired up like censorship controversies, fights between publishers, and creators who walk away from movie deals in the name of integrity. Since the mediums inception, drama has surrounded it. From its seedy origins alongside porn magazines to the Congressional inquiries that led to the Comics Code Authority in the 1950s, comics were born under a bad sign. Only in the past few years has the medium clawed its way to respectability. But, over the past few years, the specter of censorship and controversy over taste has still loomed. Here are five recent instances when comics came under fire and it was nice to see the scariest man in America, Hart D. Fisher, right in the middle of two of them.

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REVIEW: The House of the Devil

2 out of 5 stars

A cash-strapped college student named Samantha (Jocelin Donahue) takes a babysitting job during a full lunar eclipse and ends up fighting for her life. She soon discovers that her employers, Tom (Tom Noonan) and Mary (Mary Woronov) Ulman, are hiding a wicked, sick and t...wisted secret. Ti West (Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever) writes, directs and edits this terrifying film set in the early 1980s. Greta Gerwig and AJ Bowen co-star.

Toooooooooooooooooooo be fair, Old Guy, I was brought up during the early 90's and went to the video store like people went to church. Now, I know classic cheese and bad horror movies are just that, bad, but I do hold a semblance of understanding when it comes to my trash!

Also I'm by no means lumping in HOTD with the filmworks of Kubrick and ... See MorePolanski, I'm just saying West was obviously influenced more by them then the current freddy/jason/leatherface worship that is running down the "shot on video" types of now and that it was a different stylistic approach than the usual over-exposed, poorly acted, montage of "torture" movies or whathaveyou and that I deeply appreciate that.

But what do I know, I love both versions of The Wicker Man.

-Thom Carnell

AMERICAN HORRORS ADDS "RULE OF 3" TO IT'S SLATE OF PROGRAMMING!

FESTIVAL DARLING A VALUABLE ADDITION TO CRITICALLY CHARGED AMERICAN HORRORS PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE

LOS ANGELES, CA- Crime Pays, Inc. founder and president, Hart D. Fisher, has announced the latest critically acclaimed film addition to his American Horrors slate of programming with the signing of Filmmaking team Eric Shapiro Rhoda Jordan’s deeply disturbed horrornoir, Rule of 3
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AMERICAN HORRORS SPONSORS NYC HORROR FILM FESTIVAL

HART D. FISHER CONTINUES HIS HUNT FOR NEW TALENT AT THE NYC HORROR FILM FESTIVAL!

LOS ANGELES, CA- Crime Pays, Inc. founder and president, Hart D. Fisher, has announced that his American Horrors television show has thrown its’ support to another stellar horror film festival by becoming an official sponsor of the New York City Horror Film Festival.
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ROGER SCHECK TAKES ON THE MOST DANGEROUS STORY IN COMICS,
THE HART D. FISHER STORY

NOBODY LOVES ALICE WRITER/DIRECTOR TAKES AN OUTLAW PUBLISHER TURNED FILMMAKER'S STORY OF LOVE, MURDER, AND UTTER DESPAIR

LOS ANGELES, CA- In the 1990s, perhaps no independent publisher partied as hard, shook the industry's foundations, or endured more public and private turmoil than Boneyard Press founder and president Hart D. Fisher
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REVIEW: Zombieland

3 out of 5 stars

An easily spooked guy, Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), joins forces with wild man Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) to fight for survival in a world virtually taken over by freakish zombies. As they destroy scores of the undead, they meet up with two other survivors, Little Roc...k (Abigail Breslin) and Wichita (Emma Stone), and journey to a supposedly safe abandoned amusement park. Ruben Fleischer directs this horror romp.

Harrelson steals the show in this fun, but predictable comedy. There's some good moments here (the cameo especially), but a lot of the time, the film loses momentum & bogs down. SHAUN OF THE DEAD was better and more true to the genre

-Thom Carnell

AMERICAN HORRORS & FANGORIA GET SLAUGHTERED

AMERICAN HORRORS, FANGORIA ENTERTAINMENT AND NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS PROMOTE SUMMER
SLAUGHTER TOUR

LOS ANGELES, CA- FANGORIA ENTERTAINMENT in association with AMERICAN HORRORS and NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS are giving 21 lucky FANGORIA readers tickets to the 2009 SUMMER SLAUGHTER TOUR!
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SOPRANO'S SENSATIONS SIGN WITH CRIME PAYS INC.

MUSICAL POWERHOUSE THE BARBARELLATONES BRING THEIR UNIQUE STYLE TO CRIME PAYS FILM PROJECTS

LOS ANGELES, CA- From the “Luxury Lounge” episode of HBO’s monster mafia hit, The Soprano's, to the wood paneled walls of the Crime Pays offices, what a long strange trip it’s been for Robbie Quine and his latest band, The Barbarellatones
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COMICMONSTERS.COM TALKS TOUGH TIMES W/HART D. FISHER

BIG BAD WOLF TALKS TO COMICS LEGEND HART D. FISHER

LOS ANGELES, CA- COMICMONSTERS.COM 's Big Bad Wolf talks to burgeoning new television producer (AMERICAN HORRORS and THE LIVING WEAPON) Hart D. Fisher about his brutal beginnings in comics during Boneyard Press's heyday, including a stunning list of creators who got their start at Boneyard Press.
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AMERICAN HORRORS WANTS YOU!

HART D. FISHER SEEKS HORROR FEATURES, SHORTS, AND MUSIC VIDEOS FOR BROADCAST ON NEW EUROPEAN TELEVISION NETWORK

LOS ANGELES, CA- International Horror Legend Hart D. Fisher, through his company Crime Pays Inc., has announced that he is seeking independent full-length horror films, shorts, and music videos to feature on his new show, American Horrors, for European television.
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THE FETISH ASYLUM TAPS HART D. FISHER FOR ORIGINAL HORROR
PROJECTION VISUALS

3 DAY EVENT CLIMAXES AT THE KEY CLUB WITH FIENDISH CLUB VISUALS LIKE NO OTHER!

LOS ANGELES, CA- After lending his unique talents to the world of MTV directing cutting edge videos for international death metal legends Obituary and kings of satanic black metal Dark Funeral, Hart D. Fisher brought his unique vision to the world of fetish at the Los Angeles Kinkball 2.
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GOTHIC ELECTRO POP STAR SIGNS WITH CRIME PAYS INC.

MUSICAL GENIUS RENNICK LOOKS TO HART. D. FISHER TO BRING HIS MUSIC TO FILM AND TELEVISION!

LOS ANGELES, CA-

What do you do for an encore after producing the world’s first feature horror film written and directed by a blind director (Joseph M. Monks/The Bunker)? You sign up one of the most original new talents in synthpop, Rennick, and then look to place his music in as many cool projects as possible.
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