Mad Magazine for Poe fans. I never really got the appeal of Mad Magazine. The jokes were always terrible along with the art. That applies here as well. There is a genius story by Mark Russell and Peter Snejbjerg where he rewrites Count Chocula and Frankenberry along with a bunch of other cereal mascots into a Victorian Gothic tale. The rest was just a load of nonsense.Received a review copy from Ahoy comics and netGalley. All thoughts are my own and in no way influenced by the aforementioned

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Perfect reading for Halloween. It is kind of like a mix of "Treehouse of Horror", Mad magazine, and "Drunk History" (with Poe as the drunk).How could you not like the covers: Most of the stories are based around one or more Poe story, including some pretty obscure ones. (How many of you remember Poe's stories "Bon Bon" or "Duc de l'Omellette"? The two of them are smooshed together into a single parody here.)My favorite stories though are the ones by Mark Russell about breakfast cereal

'Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Terror: Volume One' from Ahoy Comics is a graphic novel anthology of horror satire and cynicism.Hosted by a drunk (and disgusting) Edgar Allan Poe, this collection is a series of short comics inspired, or not inspired, by the works of Mr. Poe. There are also poems, prose pieces and a puzzle. The stories all fall in to the semi-serious to over the top ludicrous.I reminded me a bit of a horror version of MAD magazine. I liked the collection and found some material str...

Bunch of short stories that try to be «horror» or to do an homage to Poe. Poorly done, the art was alright but the story in every aspects of them were bad. Not scary, not good, no surprise, no twist... Waste of time and a disgrace to Poe name.

The title and description (Poe's tales told from his drunk POV) sounded amazing! This volume in its entirety wasn't exactly what I was expecting, however. While there were some stories that were very heavily Poe-inspired, there were also some Frankenstein, Goethe, and Lovecraft influences, and a lot of heavily political and anti-Trump pieces. The stories I enjoyed most were the literary ones, although there was a great poem called "The Putin" written in the style of "The Raven." I also kinda lik...

This is a real mixed bag. Though overplayed, Poe as the drunken narrator works. And a few of the original stories were quite good. A lot of this just wasn’t amusing/entertaining and there definitely wasn’t any horror. I believe Ahoy is planning a second series. Being a sucker for Poe, I’ll check it out. Hope for better things, though. 3/5

Edgar Allan Poe as an opium-sniffing, turpentine-swilling, vomit-heaving, syphilitic lush of a narrator works surprisingly well. I wasn't offended at all by the comical jabs at the narrator's drunkenness, but maybe that's because I'm a teetotaler. He shan't be challenging the Cryptkeeper's throne anytime soon, but his bungling dissipation has a charm of it own.Just as he is the narrator, some of the leads in the stories also resemble him. Like Valdemar the hygiene-deficient pastry chef, Ligeia's...

I love Edgar Allan Poe, and I loved horror comics in the 80s so I expected to love this. It wasn't scary and it was too corny to be funny. I don't think Poe would be impressed.Kudos to the illustrator for the amazing artwork.I received an advance copy for review

A curiously specific anthology, with various moderately well-known creators (Mark Russell, Ann Nocenti, Hunt Emerson, folk like that) turning in short horror comics, almost all of them at the horror-comedy end of things, and the vast majority of them based (albeit often fairly loosely) on Edgar Allan Poe strips, often introduced by comedically wasted versions of the man himself. In between them are one-page prose pieces, some of them entirely serious, and generally with no Poe link that I notice...

Fun adaptation of Poe's stories, which take a modern and, at times, humorous tone. The book does take Poe's problems with alcohol and makes it a corner of his introductions, which is a bit overdone. And some won't appreciate the updates to some of his classic stories, or the tone of some stories. Still, it's an interesting take on his tales and worth a look.And it made me want to dig into Poe's work again, which I haven't read in decades.

It's back to school season as I write this review....so I am already gearing up for Halloween. I am going to stuff my head full of all the horror, ghosts, ghoulies and things that go bump in the night that I can until that time of year where things morph from fall to jingle bells. As that gets earlier every year, I start reading horror earlier each year. My Halloween time must not be encroached upon by Santa Claus! Soon I will be reading Poe at Easter. I have already seen one dollar store in the...

I loved this! It really did remind me of Drunk History (as stated in the blurb). I love Poe, so I was super excited to read this one. I would love to own this in paper form. It was a really cool graphic novel with comedic retellings of some of Poe's stories. A really fun read.

Great little collection of Poe stories, written and drawn by varied group of artists, with an emphasis on humour and satire over any kind of horror. Interjected with new bits of short prose and poetry.I felt the quality dipped a bit in the last two issues, but of course, ymmv.3,5 veering leisurely to a 4.Read as 6 single issues

This was a whole lot of weird, uneven fun. For the most part, this collection is different artists and writers taking a crack at a Poe tale (or Poe inspired, for some) that usually have some twist and more often than not have a graphic novel Edgar Allan Poe introducing their story (while, more often than not, drinking in or getting kicked out of, a bar.) In between each story are two pages of random fiction and poetry— some horror or science-fiction or even Poe related— to varying degrees of qu

There's no better way of saying it: this is bloody brilliant! To elaborate, I haven't come across a such a great mix of horror and humor since DC's Plop! The creators were clearly inspired by the idea of spoofing Poe's works and style, but they didn't stop there. The truly scary bits, of course, are those stories satirizing our current political situation. The text piece "Just the Facts," in particular hits a nerve as, absurd as it reads, isn't far at all from the truth. *sigh*Two particular fav...

As a fan of both Poe and EC Comics, I was really hoping to like this, but, overall, just found it a strange and largely incoherent collection of disparate pieces that was neither as funny or politically sharp as it thinks it is (which is a shame since inclusions like "The Fall of the White House of President Usher" had a lot of potential). Titles included here worked best when directly satirizing Poe's works, particularly when the marriage of Poe and Mad Magazine-inspired grotesquerie was on ful...

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review via Netgalley. All thoughts and opinions expressed in this review are my own. I was so excited to read this book. Edgar Allen Poe in October, what could be better? Well, a lot actually. I found this book to be very boring except for maybe 1 of the stories. The only good thing I liked about this book are the graphics. The graphics are very well done and pleasing to looK at.

Clever and screwy mashups of multiple Poe stories in comic book form. Good artwork, irreverent attitude. A series of Poe vs The black Cat stories in each issue are clearly inspired by the Spy vs Spy adventures in Mad magazine.

Meh. I wanted to like this more, but it falls a bit flat. The premise is a very drunk Poe telling stories, kinda mangling them up a bit, sounds like fun, right? Meh. Maybe I wasn't in the right mood for the Mad magazine style art and humor. As with any anthology, some stories are better than others.#EdgarAllanPoesSnifterOfTerror #NetGalley