Back in Black, and with Puppets!

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To all you cool cats out here, I'm back! I've been without a computer for almost a week (my Hewlit Packard, my baby for almost 5 years, died. And I mean died as in smoke pouring out of it dying) and in my exile, I found a strange gift. A near mint copy of Puppet Master #1. (1990) Yes, there was a comic book based on the Puppter Master movies. I had no idea. The story itself seems to be a prequel to the first movie. A lot of the ideas shown in this issue would show up again in Puppet Master 3, expect that I think the comic did it better. We see Tolun in the Brogoda Bay Inn (his cousin owns it, and was able to help him out of Germany) Putting the final touches on Jester. Through flashbacks, we see the orgins of Leech Woman, Blade, Pin Head, and Tunnler. Toulon's wife is murdered in a fight a member of the Hilter Youth. The SS show up, not becasue of any project to birng the dead back, but to arrest Touln for sedation (he was making fun of Hitler in his puppet plays) Toulon brings his wife back as Leech Woman and then hunts down and kills every member of the gang who attacked him and his wife. it's impiled that the puppets are in fact the members of the gang, which doesn't make any sense. Leech Woman in shown to remember Toulon, and as such she follows him. Yet the youth that killed her is brought back as Blade (well, Leech Woman kills him, and we see Toulon building Blade, commenting on the brain he just got, so I guess the kid's Blade now) and the other Nazi's are killed and turned into the puppets we all know and love. So (aside from Leech Woman) why would they follow Toulon? Leech Woman remebers who she was, shouldn't the other puppets remeber who they were as well? Maybe Toulon only used certain parts of their brains? Anyway, the book ends with the only members of the gang who haven't died tracking Toulon to America. When they get there, they find Toulon dead on a self inflected gun shot to the heaqd. But what they don't see are teh rest of the puppets slowly moving in behind them
Anyway, it's a pretty cool read, worth tracking down if you can find it.
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[StatCat]

Theres actually 6 or 7 comics out there in the series. I was able to find them all thru ebay. I've mentioned them a few times and they're worth having if you like the movies. They're a lot more graphic then the movies with violence and sex which was kind of surprising to me when I first started reading them awhile back.

[Andre Toulon]

I'm looking...

As a big Puppet fan I'm definitely keeping my ear to the ground trying to track these comics down.  I won't buy through ebay since the US-Canadian exchange in addition to shipping makes them unaffordable for me.

I had no idea the comics would be more graphic than the movies, however.  I may have to start searching double time.

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Well, have your tried Mile High Comics? I think they carry just about everything
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