Did you know there was a Storm solo story: Lifedeath III

In 1984 and 1985, X-Men fans were given two powerful Storm stories, Lifedeath I and Lifedeath II.

However, Barry Windsor-Smith created another chapter in Storm's life, Lifedeath III, but it never made it out to us.

Well, as it turned out,Windsor-Smith actually worked on a THIRD LifeDeath installment (I do not know WHEN he did - it appears as though it was a goodly amount of time after the initial two parts), but Marvel rejected it.

Windsor-Smith held on to it until 1999, when he adapted the material into a new comic starring one of his new characters he had introduced in his Storyteller series at Dark Horse.

Storm was changed into Adastra. Here are some samples

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I'm Calling Ghost (movie)Busters

This new year will bring new horror flicks. The downside to this is the truck load of remakes and watered down Asian ghost movies. In fact, it's the ghost movies that's frightening me in a not so good way.

As I mentioned above, we are getting these remixed Asian ghost movies. You know the type. A girl or kids come back to kill folks that had nothing to do with their death or warn people about something. Well, I love Korean Horror and J-Horror, but when we (Americans) get involved we mess things up. Although The Ring was good, but that was it.

This year we have:

The Uninvited-Korean horror not Japanese
The Unborn
The Grudge 3
The Ring 3
The Echo
Voices

I guarantee none of these will impress or make bank. They will probably self-destruct like Shutter, Mirrors, and One Missed Call did last year.

Ghost horror is hard to do, I think it is a tough genre to wrap a good story around. But I ask the writers and studios to stop stealing from Japanese and look through old fiction for inspiration.

I think about great horror writers: Peter Straub, Richard Laymon, and Ruby Jean Jensen. They could tell a good ghost story. Try reading some of their work and get inspired and get excited. The ghost horror stuff is losing ground. Time to look deep for something else creepy, scary, and fun