The Pits

I recently bought--at some expense, I may say--a ton of stills from the 1965 Italian movie Bloody Pit of Horror starring Mickey Hargitay, a bodybuilder/actor who was Jane Mansfield's husband. He plays "The Crimson Executioner".

Crimsy as direct inspiration for the Octavia comics.

Those of you with a copy of ORB2 already know about the parallels between the film and my Octavia comics--heck, the issue explores that in depth. I scanned 'em all, kept some of the stills and eBayed the rest.

Dungeon thrills with Octy and Crimsy, from ORB issue two.

I decided to throw in some free Octavia TPBs with the stills I sold, and here's what I got in return:

Thanks for the comic! Very nice to see BLOODY PIT honored in such classy fashion! Your art is fabulous and very appropriate for the topic. You draw some hot women! I was lucky to first see BLOODY PIT in a grindhouse theater in San Francisco way back in 1973 with a couple of stoner friends while cutting class during our senior year of high school. It blew our minds. We went around for weeks muttering, "My perfect body...!" No one knew what the hell we were talking about.

It's nice on account of it being so ridiculously tough just to get a simple review anywhere.