Last year I reviewed the stop motion short film The Pit and the Pendulum and found it to be one of the better films I watched during the year. I was excited at seeing what director Marc Lougee’s next project would be, and it turns out he was working on a comic book adaptation of the film that will be released on February 25th by Bluewater Comics, famous for their Ray Harryhausen Presents Signature line of comics, as well as the then newly released Vince Price Presents line.

Rather then using hand drawn animation, Lougee and producer Susan Ma came up with an idea of using actual shots from the film, reprocess them, and then use them as sequential art for the comic. It appears to give the comic a unique look, and it should work incredibly well as a compendium to the film. For those of you who might still be unsure about checking out this comic, Where the Long Tail Ends has several exclusive images of the first five pages of the comic after the break.

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Unfortunately for Anna she works in retail. This means she already has to deal with the looming threat of Christmas, as even now retail stores are beginning to shuffle Christmas themed merchandise onto the shelves, thus allowing the holiday’s yuletide reach to skip right past Thanksgiving, leapfrog Halloween and nestle right up next to Labor Day.

Luckily for her she has a totally righteous boyfriend. For our younger viewers righteous is not being used in a religious sense (though I would argue that I’m divine as well) but rather it is 80’s for 1337. But the point of this introduction is not about me claiming I rule, but by proving it. You see this week I decided to give Anna an early Christmas present.

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